Free ranger problem

[ngieringer]

I'm new to this forum and new to raising chickens. My husband and I bought 25 freedom ranger meat chickens. They a will be 6 weeks old this Sunday. Went to check on them tonight to find one sitting on his bum with his legs in front of him. Any ideas what's wrong?

 

[chooks4life]

Hello and

Injury can do this but also vitamin deficiency. Niacin I think is what people use for this. I don't know, I've never had any spraddling except genetic and injury caused ones.

There's a lot of birds suffering deficiency diseases (like one type of spraddling is) which should not be occurring on a complete diet as the labels claim the feeds are, so as a precaution it's best to give them additional nutrition and not trust the labels.

Best wishes.