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She moves around like normal. Doesn't seem to be bothered by her foot, other than a slight limp. I'll do an epsom soak then, and get updated photos.

Got home today after being out of town for the weekend. A fantastic neighbor was able to tend to her needs of being separated while eating, and her keel feels great! Just about the perfect weight zone, but I'll weigh her again tomorrow using my food scale. Her foot doesn't look any better...

I'll keep an eye on that. I didn't end up separating her, but I did feed her separately today. She happily ate it all. I think that some TLC will help with her weight loss, and I'll keep an eye on her foot. Could also be from her trying to jump to the feeder. I have it raised on top of the coop...

As you can tell, she also badly needs a molt. Her feather quality is terrible right now, poor girl.

Photos- In the second photo, I noticed she seemed to be granting down/loosing some of her toe nails? In the first photo, you can see that she lost almost all of her nail on the far toe. She also has these yellow spots on the tips of her toes? You can see them slightly in the first photo...

I will post her weight in just a moment. When I fed Doodle this morning I noticed her keel seemed sharp, so I think she's loosing weight. My best guess is that Sunny, the only other standard in that pen is kicking her off her food when I feed her. I'm going to up her feed for the next little...

Got it, I'll do that for sure! She moves just fine, jumped on my back yesterday to try to get to the feeder on top of the coop. :rolleyes: I'll weigh her today or tomorrow, and update on her weight as I go.

Hey everyone, I was wondering about muscle atrophy in chickens, what can it be caused by? I was working out in the run today picked up Doodle to see how her keel felt. I noticed all of her bones, hip bones mostly, seemed pretty prominent. I compared her to Sunny my Buff Orp hen, and she...