Vitamin Deficiency or worse? Backwards tail feathers. Crossed legs with limp.

[Dandelion and Clover]

10 week old "Rainbow" from Hoover's Hatchery

I have never noticed before because she is always roosting or laying down. If I have my babies correct, she has always been like this. Lots of laying and roosting.

When she walks she steps on her opposite foot. Has a bit of a limp. The curled backwards tail feather.

Again, I'm a terrible chicken mom. She lays on her side, but I thought she was sun or dust bathing.

Bad genetics? Vitamin Deficiency? Deformity?

 

[Dandelion and Clover]

 

[StinkyAcres]

What their diet, including treats, supplements, and the amounts of each?

 

[Dandelion and Clover]

Started with Nutrena Chick Starter Crumbles, now on Nutrena All Flock. Currently have over 40 chickens so food is always available.

I put grass clippings in the run for treats, I use no pesticides. Scratch grains used to bring them in at night after free ranging x3 times a week. Use 1/2-1 cup for everyone. Current brand is Happy Hens from Menards. Mixed with grain and cracked corn. Fruit trimming a couple times a week: strawberry tops, watermelon rinds.

 

[Dandelion and Clover]

Sorry all. I keep posting pictures because they didn't work on the original.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

You're not a bad chicken mom. It's not your fault she's the way she is, you didn't make her this way. If you had, all your chickens would be the same.

 

[Eggcessive]

Her legs look kind of thick, especially the left leg and does it have some scabbing? Could she be a meat bird? Leg bone deformities such as varus or valgus deformity can be common in one leg or both, in chickens. That might explain stepping on the opposite foot.

 

[StinkyAcres]

Could she be a meat bird?

This is the "breed": https://hoovershatchery.com/rainbow

 

[nuthatched]

Started with Nutrena Chick Starter Crumbles, now on Nutrena All Flock. Currently have over 40 chickens so food is always available.

I put grass clippings in the run for treats, I use no pesticides. Scratch grains used to bring them in at night after free ranging x3 times a week. Use 1/2-1 cup for everyone. Current brand is Happy Hens from Menards. Mixed with grain and cracked corn. Fruit trimming a couple times a week: strawberry tops, watermelon rinds.

Cut out all the extras, those are supposed to be kept to a bars minimum of 1 tbs per bird, once or twice a week.
Is happy hen a layer?

 

[Eggcessive]

Valgus deformity of the left leg might be a possibility. Here is a link about that:
https://www.researchgate.net/profil...WQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ