One of our chickens has had a very slight and occasional limp which has suddenly got a lot worse. She still walks fairly normally until she has to do anything like moving sideways, running etc., when she clearly cannot put weight on her left leg. She doesn't hold it up although sometimes she...
Thanks, she's starting to really come into her own and has become our most friendly hen, so it's very upsetting to see her distressed. There were no broken feathers but I had to give a couple a bit of trim as one had grown back on itself and was curling under her foot which would eventually have...
One of our hens started limping about a week ago. On closer inspection there was no signs of any infection or swelling but one of her claws was missing. We hoped that over time she would start showing signs of getting better but the opposite seems to be true. Now she doesn't just hobble but...