lbgreenfield
Songster
Hi there. I have a 3-year old Buff Orpington that likes to sit a lot...like, a lot. She sits under the log jungle gym in the run, she sits in the mulch landscaping bushes, she sits on my lap, she sits on patio under the table (where she currently is sitting as I write this), and now that the temps are getting colder, she spends most of her time sitting in the coop on the floor in the pine shavings. My Buff has had a fairly bad limp for the past year-ish, so she has trouble getting up and down from the sitting position and can limp OK to walk short distances, but if she were out in the yard and had to make a quick run for cover, I don't think she'd be able to do that.
I've checked her legs/hips/top+bottom+sides of feet/nails for any and all things, but can't seem to find out why she is limping and sitting more. I think she may have had a bad sprain this time last year that never healed properly or she has arthritis/gout or is just getting older. She seems to have lost a little bit of weight, but she did just go through a very hard molt and is still very slowly re-growing some of her feathers. She still eats and drinks, but not as much as she used to. She's also gone off lay for the winter/molt season.
Just curious if I should be alarmed at the amount of sitting she is doing lately. I think I might be overanalyzing things with her (it's the engineering mindset in me, haha) and might just have to realize that she is getting older and she won't be here forever. I've attached a few sitting photos
I've checked her legs/hips/top+bottom+sides of feet/nails for any and all things, but can't seem to find out why she is limping and sitting more. I think she may have had a bad sprain this time last year that never healed properly or she has arthritis/gout or is just getting older. She seems to have lost a little bit of weight, but she did just go through a very hard molt and is still very slowly re-growing some of her feathers. She still eats and drinks, but not as much as she used to. She's also gone off lay for the winter/molt season.
Just curious if I should be alarmed at the amount of sitting she is doing lately. I think I might be overanalyzing things with her (it's the engineering mindset in me, haha) and might just have to realize that she is getting older and she won't be here forever. I've attached a few sitting photos