Show weak legged chicks leg weakness in chickens may be caused from a number of things one common cause is lack of cod liver oil or sunlight something which will provide the necessary vitamins to offset this form of weakness there should be no difficulty with this ailment states an authority in the montreal herald as letting the chickens out into the sunshine should correct the affliction feeding cod liver oil at the rate of about 1 to 2 per cent in the mash should correct it even if the chickens are kept indoors internal parasites might also cause leg weakness in this case it would be advisable to have a post mortem made of some of the ailing specimens by a pathologist to find out if inte internal r nal paras parasites ites are present |