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thanks! thats a good idea, i'll try that

hi, so I have a Polish chicken and it must be when she is drinking or somthing she gets her afro wet and because its so cold all the individual feathers freeze. It looks like she has icicles hanging in her face. now that there all drooping down there pulling on her head causing it to be red and...

She went to the vets today and they x rayed her and found it was a deformity and in her bad leg she has an infection that was passed down from her mom so she is on antibiotics for the next 6-8weeks. What they found out was that in a normal leg at the hock there is 4 bones around the joint but...

Thanks a lot for all of the info but she ended up going to the vets and they x rayed her and found out it was a deformity

Well it seems that her right hock joint is twisted backwards, but it will bend normal she just wont do it. i will try to post pictures.

hello so we think our chick has rickets. but we have a few questions: what are the symtoms is it treatable in a 2 1/2 week old chick how do you treat it and anything else if anyone has any tips about this it would be great thanks

it should be fine but when you get all the different chickens i would quaritine them for a little bit so if they do have something it would spread to anyone else and once they all seem fine you can introduce them. when introducing them they will probably fight so it helps introuding all them at...

it can bend normally also but she just wont do it normally

hello, our sultan chick is just over 2 wks old and her whole right leg like almost seems like the hock joint is backwards. we have tied her feet together from 2 days old because all it was a first was splay leg. after about a week old we thought it was a Slipped Achillies Tendon but thats not it...

Our little sultan chick Lilly is nine days old when she was born her legs were slightly apart but we weren't concerned any. They were at a relatives and when we picked them up two days later it had only got worse. We just assumed she had a spraddle leg so we added traction and kept tying her...

Thanks that helped a lot because after I read it I realized she has a slipped Achilles tendon so if anyone knows anything that cold be used to fix that we would love to know thanks