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One of my silkies hatched but it has splay leg and seems lethargic. It has been in the incubator for 24 hrs now. I used vet wrap to make a splint for its legs but it still hasn’t walked. I tried sugar water and it seems to perk up for a second then lays back down. The other chicks went to a...

I have an eight and a half month old Buff Orpington (her name is Leeli) that is egg bound. She is panting and can barely stay awake. She can't stand up and doesn't have any balance. She is exhausted. I brought her inside and she passed some egg yolk. That confirmed my fears. We soaked her in...

I noticed my 7 month old call duck acting weird and was worried she was egg bound as I know they recently started laying (we have 10 so not sure if she actually has yet or not) and when I managed to grab her a very hard poop like thing is protruding out of her vent. I lubed her up and soaked her...

Y’all please don’t roast me. I have a 3.5 week old Wyandotte chick that I’ve been battling what I think is vent gleet. I noticed it 4-5 days ago and thought it was pasty butt, but after two days of that I realized all of what I’m seeing is white. Its vent was bulging and swollen so I thought...

My polish almost died last week after I found she was retaining an egg. She was able to pass the egg (it was her normal sized egg) ~36hrs and it wasn’t broken but she’s had this butt ever since. Help! Her poop hasn’t gotten better or worse since then and it’s been 1.5wks. Her personality has...

Hi everyone I have a bit of emergency and could use some advice ! I have a nearly 4 year old Cochin chicken with what appears to be a prolapse vent from laying an egg that was to large (look at picture below for egg) for her. Note this is her first egg after going through a molt Two days ago...

Hi all! I've got an Easter egger named Scarlet that we rescued about a year and a half ago. When we got her she had this dirty butt (vent gleet?) and while it has gotten slightly better, it's still a constant thing she has. UNLESS she is molting and not laying. We've had her for two cycles now...

Looks darker than the pictures I’ve seen of discharge from vent gleet. Noticed she was separated from the flock and had no energy to eat. She seemed very disoriented and had trouble standing for a moment when I put her back down. She is currently separated in a dog crate with food and water.

Hi. I have a cream legbar possible she just started laying. 4-5 months old. She has a white sack hanging from her vent. There is still a part of it inside her. It looks like an undeveloped egg but I want to make sure I can pull it out. I only noticed it this morning. She was drinking water when...

Hello! I have an aquila that is 1.5yrs old. I noticed that she was losing feathers on her chest, I thought she was molting. I also noticed she had discharge from her vent, but I didn't think much of it. Two days ago we found her barely able to walk, losing feathers like crazy. I have her...

I discovered one of my chickens had a large obtrusion coming out of her vent. Based on the research I have done it appears it could be a prolapsed vent, however, none of the photos I have seen shows it to this degree so I am unsure. She was fine yesterday, and had nothing protruding. There is...

My kids and I just hatched our second chick but when the chick finally got the bottom half of the egg off and broke free of the yolk sac cord there was some blood- appears to be coming from the vent or rear? Is this a protruding vent? Bleeding stopped very quickly but I’m worried about infection.

Hi friends! Two days ago my flock had a big scare from something in the yard, there was nothing I could see, I very was close by. One of my pullets (26 weeks old) tried to escape through a panel fence and was "stuck" there. When I came over to her there were feathers all over. I picked her up...

We treated our rooster for mites a few months ago when we noticed he started limping. We kept an eye on him to make sure all the mites were gone. He kept taking turns on each leg, skin and comb looked healthy and he still seemed strong so we hoped he would improve. Unfortunately he didn't...

I noticed one of my hens is acting weird. Do you guys have any thoughts Her poop looks odd ill post a picture in the morning she's straining and squatting like she’s trying to poop but can’t and when I picked her up to check it looked like she had something fleshy come out of her vent, but it...

I’m new to BYC, hello everyone. Please help, I cleaned one of my baby chicks because of his pasty butt (all my silkie chicks have it for some reason and constantly need a rinse while all my other chicks don’t) but this chicks pasty butt was harder than the rest in a shorter timeframe. When I...

My neighbor gave us some eggs for watching her house. We decided to put a few in the incubator and one hatch this morning. Unfortunately, it has something protruding out of its vent. This is the first time we have ever had chickens and I don’t know what to do. Can someone please help? Is...

A few days ago I noticed my buff orpington was acting a little slower than usual. She has been getting worse and it looks like she's having weird bathroom troubles. She strains a lot and only a little comes out and it looks "snaky". I don't believe she is eggbound unless the egg might have...

One of our hens—Joan Snow—(turning 3 in May) has started taking on the characteristics of being egg bound in the past week. She waddles like a penguin, is constantly flexing her vent as if she is trying to lay, but no egg can be found. We've read up and tried many of the remedies offered for...

i was at work today, went on my break to see one of my younger siblings texted me from home saying one of our chickens wasn’t responding, i called and they were freaking out. so my mother went outside and was digging a hole in the yard when in her peripheral vision she saw a bird just hit the...