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  1. M

    Failing to thrive baby chick

    We’ve ordered 15 baby chicks and a mystery one and they’re almost 3 weeks old. We had one immediately almost passed in the first 24 hours. We worked on keeping her warm and now she’s thriving like most of the others. My kids called her “Fighter”. A week later we had another one who struggled to...
  2. Barb Root Hinkkanen

    Starving Herself…

    Greetings, chicken peeps, NOTE: thus is a long post. My sweet girl LuMa had two ingrown feather surgeries on her tail last week. I was so sure I was going to lose her, but the incisions are closed, her skin is nice and pink, she’s healing nicely, and there are no “hot” spots. I have her...
  3. C

    Sick hen, don’t know what’s wrong please help!

    This is Betty. For the past week she’s been lethargic, sitting in the same spot barely moving, her eyes were swollen shut and now the slightly open and cloudy/glossy. Won’t eat or drink on her own, I have to give her water through a dropper. She poops but it’s super liquidy. She recently started...
  4. C

    VERY lethargic sick chicken please help

    My poor baby susu is a NN silkie bantam. She has always been on the struggle bus. She had a lame leg when I first got her at 5 months and we helped heal that. As soon as she got healthy and walking again, she became our bantam NN silkie roosters favorite. She would often lay on her side when...
  5. aizuwonnie

    Leg injured and won't eat/drink.

    Teen owner of three 2 month old chickens here. A few weeks ago, our four chickens were attacked by a hawk. One passed away, and another is injured. The injured one (Sesame, as named after my favorite dish sesame chicken haha) seems to have trouble standing on its own. At first, it stayed still...
  6. chickstagram

    Disoriented, crouch-walking Pullet. What's wrong with Pippa?

    Hello BYC fam! We are first time chicken tenders and sometimes have no idea what's happening when things go wrong. Earlier today I noticed Pippa, our 3 month old black maran pullet, crouch-walking. My first search advised to check her feet for swells or bumblefoot, and in her raw, dirty...
  7. lmyers

    Wry Neck "cured" in one day - but won't eat or drink today - help ?!

    Hi All, Flock of 6 hens: 2x 2year old Wyandottes, 2x 18 week old Sussex, 2x 16 week old Legbar/Blue Ameraucana cross (don't ask, re-home emergency). Have been slowly incorporating the three groups of birds into one larger coop with the last group isolated for a month. Two weeks ago: Isolation...
  8. R

    Is she worth saving?

    We've had 10 hens (no roosters) for 3 years and have not really had any problems up until recently.... Yesterday, one of my Rhode Island Reds suddenly became lame yesterday. My 12-yr. old son who takes care of the chickens, found her laying on the coop floor with her wings spread out and not...
  9. M

    Lonely chicken...what to do?

    We are brand new to chickens (just five days) and the day we got our first two hens, something got one of them. The first day, they both came out of the coop and were happy in the run. Since then, the lone hen will not come out of her coop. We are worried that she is not eating or drinking. I...
    • Matoe25
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  10. Bluscorp22

    Hen won't stand or walk

    My 3 year old Ameraucana hen won't stand or walk. When I went to the coop I found her just sitting in a corner of the run. She has green and yellow/white diarrhea on the feathers under her vent. Her crop felt empty. I brought her in and put her in warm water for about 15 minutes. I felt as far...
  11. KatyBishop

    Hen - leg paralysis? Please help

    3 days ago my 2.5 year old hen was found laying on the ground unable to move her legs. This was very sudden and showed no symptoms of any disease or physical injury, and will not respond to touching or moving of her legs. She would try to move by pulling herself with her wings, she also will...
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