Cause of limping pullet discovered...it's ME!

[TammyTX]

Warning! Do NOT be a dumba$$ like me!

With good intentions we put a piece of deck in the chicken yard and propped it up for a shaded lean-to.



I walk out there today, after not having checked on the chickens for several hours, and what do I find????? A pullet with her leg stuck between the boards and obviously she had been that way for a while! The leg looked twisted but when I gentley pulled her free the leg looked and felt normal. I put her in the back-up chicken hosptial aka/cat carrier. I think she'll be fine.

I'm so mad because I already have another pullet in the dog carrier because she was limping and I didn't know why. She is also thin and so I'm thinking disease, but she had been eating and her poo is plentiful and normal so I decided she must have gotten hurt somehow...WELL NOW I KNOW HOW! Lord knows how long she must have struggled before getting free. Poor chicky.

Lesson learned....again.

BAD chicken owner. BAD!!!!!

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

You are not bad.

We all make mistakes and learn from them. Thanks for being brave enough to share so the rest of us hopefully won't make the same mistake!

 

[al6517]

This just the kind of thing we learn from, when I set something out I think what the heck are the chickens going to do with it or to it LOL. glad things worked out.

AL

 

[desertgirl]

You would be bad if you didn't feel bad! As it is, live and learn. Your chicks are lucky they have a caring human!!