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Thank you for taking an interest in my hen :) Yes, I've been given instructions on what to do but it is something that's going to be quite distressing for her. I need to put three tablets down her throat by prying her beak open and poking my finger down there, then keeping her head up to make...

On the way home from the exotics veterinary hospital!

UPDATE 2 I figured I should update everyone about the situation with my hen. So I decided to go ahead and do the surgery. We took her in on Friday and they did the surgery the next morning. Today she's been discharged, the surgery was a success but the road to recovery is still long. I was told...

UPDATE I took my hen to the vet again today and she had another x-ray done. It's much worse than we originally thought, she has now fractured her right leg like a spiral fracture and the bone is out of place at the top so it won't heal properly on it's own. This is why she's been holding up the...

I forgot to mention before, from our original vet visit when she had the limp we were told the injury is somewhere at the top of the leg/hip because while the vet was examining her she was uncomfortable around that area whilst the leg was being extended. Now her entire leg is obviously not...

We were prescribed rheumocam for a week which is medication for muso-skeletal pain relief after seeing nothing on the x-ray. She goes out every day with me (I carry her) and stays put - she can't stand up and physically move anymore and doesn't try to. My hen has a sensitive temperament and she...

The vitamin supplements sound like human doses, I've been researching and I'm not sure if she might get too much B12 as apparently it builds up in the chickens body? Also the vitamin E sounds high and is fat soluble, would it not be too much? With the chicken sling, would it be ok to only use...

No the fox jumped over the wall and started pursuing my other hen who is the youngest and fastest at running. She got away to the house although some of her tail feathers were plucked out. We ran out as soon as we saw the fox in the backyard to scare it away. My hen with this limp was spooked...

Thank you for this information, I will look for the products in the video and I have nutritional yeast I use myself that I can use. I do think there's been damage done to the sciatic nerve and a serious muscle injury :(

I will make one ASAP, just a few questions. Her bad leg she's tucked up and it's really stiff, I don't know if I can pull it down to fit into a chicken chair kind of contraption, what do you think? Also would she need to stay in a chicken chair overnight and 24/7 or would we be able to take her...

It's not Marek's, bumblefoot or any other virus the vet ruled out. She said it was most likely a soft tissue injury and now after the fox attack she's completely unable to use that one leg. She's alert, lays eggs, attempts to get up but can't anymore so other than the leg she was very healthy.

She was limping on Thursday so I took her to the vet. She was examined, had an x-ray, no broken bones and suspected muscle injury so painkillers were prescribed. On Friday, she was outdoors free ranging when a fox came into the garden suddenly. We scared the fox away but she had ran on the bad...