- Jul 3, 2011
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Occasionally, one of my hens will suddenly start walking oddly -- almost as if she has a hitch in her gait -- and become uncoordinated in a kind of scary, seemingly neurological manner, with no apparent cause. Then, it passes as quickly as it came. This happened this morning with my young cream legbar; an hour later, she was perambulating normally and has remained normal. She was due to lay, and subsequently got on the nest. Is it possible that, as an egg makes its way down the oviduct, it impinges a nerve that affects locomotion until the egg moves on? This is not a disease nor injury process, and I have no other ideas. And it self-resolves, so it's not really a problem, more a curiosity. Anyone else observed this in their girls?