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I believed that my laying silkie was egg bound. One day I went out & she was laying in the spot she lays her eggs & didn’t really seem to want to move & I thought maybe she was just in the process of laying. So I let her be. The following day, I go out & she is in the same spot & he vent seems...

Thank you for that info! I had wrapped it legs with a Band-Aid like you had mentioned, and she is all better! Running around, getting her own food and water now!

Thank you! I found it is called spraddle leg & can be fixed! So hoping it all works out!

So I have probiotics in the water and have just been going out and physically moving her to give her water and had some food crumbles in front of her. She has perked up and is starting to move around a bit more. Still not like a typical chick at that age. But making progress! I have had to help...

I have been hatching some silkies. I had one egg that was working on hatching and wasn’t making progress so I had ended up helping it hatch. I’ve hatched a lot of eggs & I only interfere with the hatching process if I feel like it is necessary and they will not make it if I don’t & they haven’t...

Here are a few more pictures. I do not feel like it is dislocated.

Bandage it with like a first aid wrap?

How would I know if it feels dislocated? & what do I do if it does?

This is the injured leg!

Today I saw one of my chickens hiding in the coop, they’re only a couple months old so still try to run when we try to get them from the coop. So, amongst trying to get her out she tried to get away & was limping so bad that she would fall into the splits. Other chickens were pecking at her &...

I have never heard of a frizzle or frazzle before. But we incubated some silkie eggs that we ordered online. The seller said there were a couple frazzle eggs. We thought we had 6 silkies but now that they’re 2 weeks old, one of their feathers are definitely curling out & looking different than...

I have incubated & hatched many chickens & never had this happen before. My eggs in the incubator are on day 20 & in lockdown. & an egg exploded. I heard a loud pop & the smell following was/is horrific. I immediately removed all the eggs from the incubator, wiped them down to get the ooze from...

Actually two are pipping now & the rest should hatch between today & the next couple days.

I have much higher hopes for the remaining eggs to be hatched next week now. I was real worried when I got to googling about it, that we weren’t going to have many hatch. But it sounds exactly like what you said. We had 6/6 hatch yesterday. So hoping for the others I’m expecting to hatch, to...