we got a chicken down i repeat chicken down..6-4s down ..help needed..

[protus]

No chicken left behind....:)

So on my Am inspection water /feed run of the ladies it seems one has come up lame.it can walk..jump..move etc but limps.leg from the knee down is swollen and pointing to the 230-3o clock (if your looking down on her) ..it is also not straight like it should look when she's standing erect. Slight curve.
Now my issue.
Cull?
Splint?
Let it ride since she can still eat etc.
Its one of or Rhode reds...about 3+ months old...size of football etc in case that helps.

Only thing we can come up with is a fight over roost space...seems they all want the same spot and shove each around good for it.

So any help would be great.

[Karen]

You might want to feel around for any obvious breaks. Can she put any weight on it? If the leg is broken, you might have to cull her. If she doesn't seem to be in too much pain, you could separate her from the flock for a few days and let it ride. We had a rooster with some pain in one leg. I put him in a small pen away from the rest of the flock for a few days. He still limped when we let him go back to free ranging with the rest of the flock, but he pretty much overcame the limp on his own. I still see an occasional limp when he's running but nothing I worry about.
It's normal for chickens to fuss over nest boxes at first, but they usually figure it out without any serious damage.

[rockriver]

i like karen's idea, but, if that doesn't work soon, i'd recommend
that hen become sunday dinner!

[motesjm]

We've had several gimpy chickens that have healed up on their own. Wait and see if its going to get better or heal up. If it gets to where shes not mobile enough to get food and water and get around the pen then its time to cull her.

[protus]

we havent done any thing to her. we held her, it aint crunchy and she doesnt have extra elbows or knees. she gets along good enough,eats,drinks,,all that jazz..my FIL who raised them on his farm in ND said she may be deformed/cripple etc.
were keeping an eye on her.

we re named her "timmy".
;)

[recon_prepper]

cull it not worth the time and effort. Its just a chicken.

[protus]

cull it not worth the time and effort. Its just a chicken.

besides a physical " yip no crunchy spots"..no time/effort has been wasted on her.
she'll be the gimp untill she cant gimp no more then she gets the axe.. till then,,long as she can hobble to the waterer and eat feed with out help shes g2g.
so far besides doing a face plant when she jumped off roost the other day she gets along just fine .

[All Talk]

Do you have a rooster, or only hens? sometimes a (single) rooster can tamp down the in-fighting amongst the hens.

[protus]

Yeah we got one but I don't think he knows it yet

[All Talk]

Just lost our first bird this weekend. Someone failed to latch the gate fully to their pen. I found 7 of the 8 tearing up the mulch around my landscaping. Herded them back in without much trouble, but had to hunt far and wide before I found the feather wasteland that had once been my 10-year-old daughter's favorite hen. Literally, nothing left behind but feathers. Either fox or coyote. Wish i knew which (we got both hereabouts), since I am far more likely to post our dog (standard schnauzer, about 40 lbs) out there to deter a fox than to tangle with a coyote (or worse, more than one coyote).

[protus]

Just lost our first bird this weekend. Someone failed to latch the gate fully to their pen. I found 7 of the 8 tearing up the mulch around my landscaping. Herded them back in without much trouble, but had to hunt far and wide before I found the feather wasteland that had once been my 10-year-old daughter's favorite hen. Literally, nothing left behind but feathers. Either fox or coyote. Wish i knew which (we got both hereabouts), since I am far more likely to post our dog (standard schnauzer, about 40 lbs) out there to deter a fox than to tangle with a coyote (or worse, more than one coyote).

yeah we started using carbiners on the bottom latches of our door to help keep the coons at bay.
That said,,lil gimpy bird is still getting along fine. but now she has a toe on the oppsisite foot doing a 90 deg. trun. We think she's got some sort of chickenpalsy or somethiung , but she runs around and eats ,so were letting her be .