We gave her a magnesium salt bath yesterday and tried to gently relocate her leg following the directions on Poultry Podiatry. Not sure if it did anything. We can work it up to almost normal position, but her knee is very stiff and her toes curl up instead of spreading flat like her non...
Yes, injury from the hawk attack is on the left side, upper leg/mid body area.
She is eating, drinking, and seems happy when we visit her. (She's back in the basement where she started as a tiny chick.) We haven't brought her out to the coop since the attack because we are afraid of the...
Stripes is about 8 weeks old. She was fine until last Saturday when a red tail hawk attacked her. She has a good sized flesh would under her left wing. We cleaned that, treated it with Neosporin, and isolated her in a crate. Over the last few days she has been getting up and moving around...
We have a chicken, approximately 6-7 weeks old, with the same leg problem. Ours is from a hawk attack one week ago. She had a peck wound under the wing in the upper leg. At first, we were mostly concerned with the flesh wound. We cleaned it and put Neosporin on it and isolated her in crate...