Bad Limp

[De@n]

and what should i use as a padding?

 

[ChickNanny13]

Thank you azygous & Eggcessive for peeping in Always appreciate all your help & advice.

 

[De@n]

I can not access much on this internet. Could someone send me photos of a broken chicken ankle/elbow? I have no idea how to tell which is broken, so should i splint the whole leg? Do i spread her toes and put them on like a frame to keep them there?

 

[Eggcessive]

Can you reread post # 10 and view the video? Also can you Google “avian skeletal system?” There are some good pictures of the leg bones there. If you aren’t sure about splinting, then you can just leave it alone and see how she does. If you do splint, you can use gauze, felt or other soft favric for padding.

 

[De@n]

No, i can not view the view. it looks a bruise colour where the 'ankle' is. she holds her foot out from her body, as though her knee is pushed in- but she still lowers it. when she sits, she also hold it out.
Use your right arm and bend it at the elbow to 95 degrees. then pivot at the elbow 40 degrees and let your and hand fingers dropped. that is wat her leg looks like.
is it possible that she could be just bruised?

 

[azygous]

Do you have a roll of old fashioned gauze bandage? Wrap that around the bruising, green and grey color on the scales. Then find something about and inch or inch and a half long that's rigid. Make sure it has no sharp edges that can cut the leg. Look in your junk drawer. I know you have one. We all do.

Place these two rigid but thin objects on each side of the gauze on the sides of the ankle, then wrap with elastic bandage to hold everything in place. Be sure to wrap tightly enough so it doesn't slide, but not too tightly it cuts off circulation.

You will unwrap and check the ankle after 24 hours. You will look for swelling above and below your bandage, which would indicate you had the bandage too tight, and look at the break itself for swelling. Rewrap and check again in forty-eight hours.

 

[De@n]

do i wrap the gauze between the toes and make the foot flat?
(i am refering to the 'ankle' as being on the foot just above the toes.)

 

[azygous]

Compare both feet. Do you see any swelling at all down on the toes or up the shank? Is the foot sticking out at a strange angle? If there is no swelling by now and if the foot is in a normal position when the hen stands, it probably is just bruised by whatever object hit the hen's leg and it's not broken.

Why don't you rig up a crate for her to rest in tonight and tomorrow to keep weight off the leg and give it some time to heal? Forget the splint for now.

 

[De@n]

she does not stand on her leg. she holds it up and hops on one. sometimes supports herself with wings or lies on her side

 

[De@n]

her foot is swollen.