My Chick is Flopping Around! Help Please!!!

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I bet that they are dust bathing, too. When my chicks first did this, I thought they were dying! They almost gave me a heart attack ;)
 
Ok, I do have pictures and it is weirder than I remember! Off balance looking. Anyway here they are in order as it happened. I had already been taking pics when I saw it happen. And she did it almost as soon as I moved her from the tupperware bin I had travelled them out in to the grass. They are in a brooder in the laundry room right now. We did separate her into her own brooder.









 
Actually looking at the pics now I don't think it was immediately after taking her out because I took some pictures from outside of the enclosure first, so they had probably been out a good 5 min or so and this was right when I came back into the enclosure. But she did this same weird thing yesterday in the brooder inside.
 
Even with the weird one where she's leaning back on her legs in that third pic?! Chickens are so very odd.
 
That does look odd but maybe you caught her in the process of doing something else which made a weird pic. Maybe somebody who knows more will chime in tomorrow
 
I appreciate all the input! I hope others do check out the pics and give their input but I appreciate the input so far. I've been worried about her and a more hardcore chicken keeper we know recommended culling her but, well, I'm just not...well...that hardcore!
 
AmpersatChick said:
Ok, I do have pictures and it is weirder than I remember! Off balance looking. Anyway here they are in order as it happened. I had already been taking pics when I saw it happen. And she did it almost as soon as I moved her from the tupperware bin I had travelled them out in to the grass. They are in a brooder in the laundry room right now. We did separate her into her own brooder.









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Looks like dust bathing to me also.
 

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