One of my chickens is sick. One of the seven week old. About a month ago she had what I thought was a splayed leg, so I splinted it and she did much better. She was out with all the other chickens doing good, only an occasional limp but doing well. But today she wouldn’t get off the roost. And when she finally did she was staggering around and barely walking well. By this afternoon she’s not walking at all. Not bearing weight on her legs. When I try to research what’s wrong the only answers that seem to come up when I try to research what’s wrong the only answers that seem to come up are marrks and cocci? Seems like every symptom a chicken could have could be one of those two problems.
I put her in a wire dog crate inside the coop with her own food and water. I’m going to give it a couple days and see what happens. I will not take her to the vet. I have been down that road before and it was very frustrating, expensive, and still never really figured out what the problem was. I hate this part of having chickens.
