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FINAL UPDATE: Months too late, we got her an x-ray. The limping was due to her femur being broken in half, the abdominal swelling was herniation, and the situation wasn't helped by the fact that her liver was so swollen it was pressing her intestines further out of the abdominal cavity. The leg...

Update: she seems ok now, still skinny and not walking perfectly but she's limping less and is acting normal.

Midnight Majesty Maran, it's a Black Copper Maran hybrid meant for better egg production

Update 2: She can slowly limp a few feet, though it seems to be pretty painful and exhausting.

Update: She can move her toes a bit now but is still mostly lying down or using her other leg and wings to move.

She eats mainly layer feed with frequent access to pasture and oyster shell available as a supplement plus cracked corn/mealworms for treats. I couldn't figure out what's going on with her wing feathers, she's more than two years old so not her first molt. Her butt has been partially bald for a...

The coop is extremely secure, a fox was perched on top of it yesterday but had no way of reaching them. No chemicals sprayed recently, and the food is fresh, though there is a bit of algae in the waterer. None of the other birds seem out of sorts and she's the biggest and usually strongest.

Yep, no sign of either (though it's difficult to compare the muscles and tendons when one leg is flexed and the other is relaxed). She shows no sign of pain at having the leg and foot manipulated.

She's eating and drinking just fine now that she can actually reach food and water, and her crop is emptying, I didn't see any external parasites but here are pictures (the last one shows the position her leg has been "stuck" in):

walking on hocks is usually caused by Mareks or riboflavin deficiency.

Today I noticed a hen that could not use one leg. She also has a purple-black tinge around the edge of her comb, as well as a prominent keel and fluid in her abdomen, plus missing feathers around her butt despite being at the top of the pecking order and lately she has had weak eggs, but all the...

Update: He has a home!

Quarantine aka Silver, Silver Laced Wyandotte, 3 days

Vaxxi, Midnight Majesty Maran, 3 days old

thank you!