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    Chicken with no legs??

    May I ask what state you live in? Did you check and see if there are any chicken/farm animal rescues? My local chicken rescue helped me a lot with mine. I have a female with a gimp leg and she gets around fine. I had one in a make shift wheel chair made from PVC, but she died last year when she...
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    Chicken with no legs??

    My FB friends chicken! In a wheel chair! :)
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    Chicken with no legs??

    Those pictures are great! I love it! This is the best 'find' ever. It makes me hopeful for Oakley. Thats great he can walk on nubs like that. I should show those pictures to the vet who told me chickens NEED legs since they cannot fly & if they have issues should be euthanized. My FB friend has...
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    Chicken with no legs??

    The useless leg is the one that I thought had a slipped tendon. It's twice the size of the other leg, very thick, and its turned in so she will claw her other leg if I don't separate it with a blanket or band-aid her foot/claws. It will never be usable unfortunately. I was on her all night...
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    Chicken with no legs??

    Oakley, the crippled one is in the basket/sling/handi-chair. She was a chick I took in with what looked like a slipped tendon.... But I took her to the vet and he said it was just a major deformity. Her other leg is not right either. It's muscles are tight and its pretty much stuck in a 90...
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    Chicken with no legs??

    My crippled chick Oakley cannot walk at all. My chicken Cassidy who's feet froze off can get around just fine. I wrap the stubs in vet wrap to give her some padding and she walks perfectly. :)
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    Chicken with no legs??

    Yeah, it was super easy. It's just PVC pipe & then I used zip ties to put a piece of cloth across with two leg holes and a poop hole. She's bigger now and her legs only got worse and are in the way so now she's in a basket while I'm at work. I put a piece of foam pad (from a craft store) over it...
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    Chicken with no legs??

    Hi! I have a chicken with two crippled legs. I was going to euthanize her but she didn't seem unhappy. I've had her for 8 months now and she has a chair and a basket she sits in. Right now she is on the couch with me watching me type. I go back & forth on whether she needs to be euthanized...
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    people with house chickens

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    people with house chickens

    I'm on my phone and am having a hard time responding to this thread... So I hope it goes to the right place! Anyways, I have three house chickens. Tully is blind and has a scissor beak. Cassidy has no feet. Oakley is crippled and cannot walk. Mine each have a pack-n-play that they stay in...
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    people with house chickens

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    Dog attack-will she recover?

    I have a crippled chicken I keep indoors. I use corn cobb cat litter stuff in a Pack-N-Play and just scoop it out daily. I also have an elevated dog dish in there for food & water and a next box with bedding. It takes up some room, but I actually have three indoor chickens and they don't stink...
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    My chicken "sling" PIC!

    Thanks for the sling ideas!! I have a crippled chick I need to make one for.
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    Penny the one legged chicken has lost her other leg. What on earth is going on?

    If anyone else comes across this problem, you do not have to put your chicken down. I have a chicken and both of her feet fell off because of frostbite from her previous owner. She has two little nubs and I just wrap some vet wrap around them once a week so she has some protection on them and...
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