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- Mar 7, 2020
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Hello! This is my first post... and I’m a first time chicken owner. This may be long and I apologize. Please no judgements, I’m just looking to see if anyone has any advice or has been through something similar.
About 2 weeks ago, I checked on our ladies before going to bed, and noticed one of them had an open wound on her back about the size of a quarter, which looked like she had been pecked at, and she was limping. We separated her from the rest of the group so she could heal and we could figure out what was going on. I didn’t see any visible sign of injury on the leg she was limping on.
Her limping progressively turned into not walking at all after a few days, then she slowly began walking on her hocks with her toes curled. She ate and drank less since she couldn’t move. But now she’s eating, drinking, laying normally... her wound is healed as well.
We discovered a couple days ago that she somehow got creative and managed to get into part of the rafters of the coop and laid an egg up there. My assumption is that she fell coming down, hence the limp and wound from being the “weak” one.
I’ve paranoid myself with the information I’ve read on Mareks disease, because she has the similar symptoms. Similar symptoms as a riboflavin deficiency as well, lol.
Could this just be the healing process from an injury that I’m just assuming occurred? What are some extra tips for helping her leg heal? Vitamins, etc?
Thank you!
About 2 weeks ago, I checked on our ladies before going to bed, and noticed one of them had an open wound on her back about the size of a quarter, which looked like she had been pecked at, and she was limping. We separated her from the rest of the group so she could heal and we could figure out what was going on. I didn’t see any visible sign of injury on the leg she was limping on.
Her limping progressively turned into not walking at all after a few days, then she slowly began walking on her hocks with her toes curled. She ate and drank less since she couldn’t move. But now she’s eating, drinking, laying normally... her wound is healed as well.
We discovered a couple days ago that she somehow got creative and managed to get into part of the rafters of the coop and laid an egg up there. My assumption is that she fell coming down, hence the limp and wound from being the “weak” one.
I’ve paranoid myself with the information I’ve read on Mareks disease, because she has the similar symptoms. Similar symptoms as a riboflavin deficiency as well, lol.
Could this just be the healing process from an injury that I’m just assuming occurred? What are some extra tips for helping her leg heal? Vitamins, etc?
Thank you!
