- Mar 29, 2009
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I came home yesterday to find a young Wellie hen (just under a year old) with a broken leg. How it happened I have no idea.
She is eating and drinking and isn't in allot of pain. If she is in allot of pain I am going to give her aspirin, 25gr per pound of hen weight. Is that the right dosage?
I am not sure if it is broken at the hock or the hip. I splinted the leg at the hock. The leg from the hock down to the foot wobbles. She hasn't moved the leg from the hip and I am not sure if she could anyway even if she was healthy. ???????
I couldn't feel it broken at the hip but I am no doctor and she didn't show any signs of pain when I examined her at the hip joint.
If it is broken at the hip should I bind her whole leg to her body? or is the outcome grim?
I would like to give her the best chance possible. She is being so good about it, very docile. She's a beauty.
Any ideas? anything else I can do?
The Vets around here would charge me two/three hundred dollars to set her leg, can't afford that, so sad to say. Vet prices around here are outrageous.