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An update - after a day of rest she seems to be much better! We took the bandage off - her foot looked a wee bit puffy - and she is nearly back to her old self! She's walking with a slight limp but she doesn't have to stop to rest the leg, and she seems perky and even horned her way to the front...

Thank you - we have wrapped it and that actually seems to be keeping her off it - she can't bend it as well as she could before, so she's mostly been sitting in the nesting box all day. We'll continue to keep an eye on her and maybe separate her from the rest of the flock, although they...

I have a Welsummer hen with an injured leg. She's not very big - about 6 months or so (got her from another flock recently). Today she got caught in the fence (not sure how long she had been caught there, but probably more than 30-40 minutes) and after we freed her we noticed that she was...