Our first time with chicks - one had splayed leg but we didn't know to identify and treat it in time. We finally did put a rubber band and it seemed to work initially. Perhaps we took it off too soon. Anyway, "Goofyfoot" is about 3 months old now. one leg goes out to the side. She gets around in...
Hi, we have the same problem. One of our chickens has a splayed leg, we didn’t know better and began treatment too late and were not fully successful in treating it. So now she is half the size of the others and drags the leg around behind her. What worries us is that she cannot perch.
How did...
Wow that’s great that she survived all that! How old is she now? Can she perch? Does she lay eggs?
One of our chicks developed splay leg and we were only partially successful in treating it. She is about half the size of the others and at 8 weeks all the others are roosting but she stays on the...