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This started with a hurt left leg, that was hot to the touch, but has cooled over time. We have her in pen rest. It’s been a little over a week. As you can see from the pics, she has black tar-like poop in her feathers. When we picked her up, the skin and feathers slipped easily away from her...

OK, this isn’t looking good. It started with our 10-month old buff Orpington hen with a bum leg Now, she soiled herself with black tar-like, very stinky poop. And, it looks like the skin has slipped loose from her chest. It just slips back. She doesn’t seem to be in pain. It’s just freaky.

Great place to start. We'll get right on it.

Thanks! we'll keep a sharp eye out for any of those symptoms.

She's an 8-month old buff Orpington. I first noticed her hanging out in the coop a couple of days a go. I tried nudging her to get her to move, and she just stumbled around. I picked her up and checked her vent area to see if it was "butt-rot." She was clear. So, I set her down in the open...

What do you do for a chicken with a hurt leg?

What would we have ever done without BYC? Thanks for all the great responses. Luckily, little hen appears to have been broody. We isolated her in an old dog crate with a wire bottom. Within three days, she was herself again, running and squawking with her old pals in the Chicken Kingdom.

Thank you for the thorough and informative reply. I'm holding out hope that it's nothing that drastic. We isolated her and she seems to be bouncing back to her normal chatty self.

She doesn't show any of the normal signs of being broody. She's really listless, doesn't yowl or peck. Could this be something else?

We have a chicken that has been on the nest for days. No eggs underneath her. She just sat there. We boosted her of the nest and she walked around for a bit, but then laid down, with her head down. She made her way back to the coop and laid all day on the floor of the coop. This morning, I...

Our hen is sick. She sat for days on the nest and when we boosted her off she walks slowly around putting out rhythmic single clucks. The last couple of days, she just laid around and can't even pick up her head. What's wrong with her?