chicken duck fight - chicken not using leg and leaking

[McChics]

I don’t know what the broody cluck would be, but all the others...yes

 

[McChics]

I moved her outside.

 

[McChics]

She is putting the left foot down now but not putting weight. Still grips very weak when I roll her over and put my finger in her toes.

She at a little but of an egg and a few sips of water. The other hens are very curious about her there.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

She looks hot, what are your temperatures like?
I would make sure she has shade and cool water to drink.

 

[McChics]

She looks hot, what are your temperatures like?
I would make sure she has shade and cool water to drink.

High 70s low 80s.

I gave her a bath yesterday and let her soak and float. She had gotten messy in the small crate. She latched on my fingers in the deep sink and showed great grip in that left foot.

I took off work today to do some work around the house and yard. Kept her in my sight in the dog crate. She got real anxious and I let her out. She wanted to go to the nest to lay. She layed an egg and broke it I’m sure by stumbling around.

Back in the crate. But I let her out towards the evening. She is trying to put weight on it. But she flaps her wings to take weight off and does a quick hop. She sat down in the grass. I scooped her up after an hour and back in the crate.

Will be a week tomorrow. I think she is about 25% better.

 

[AmyJane725]

High 70s low 80s.

I gave her a bath yesterday and let her soak and float. She had gotten messy in the small crate. She latched on my fingers in the deep sink and showed great grip in that left foot.

I took off work today to do some work around the house and yard. Kept her in my sight in the dog crate. She got real anxious and I let her out. She wanted to go to the nest to lay. She layed an egg and broke it I’m sure by stumbling around.

Back in the crate. But I let her out towards the evening. She is trying to put weight on it. But she flaps her wings to take weight off and does a quick hop. She sat down in the grass. I scooped her up after an hour and back in the crate.

Will be a week tomorrow. I think she is about 25% better.

So glad she's improving.

And to everyone on the chicken bandwagon, I respect your decision to feed chicken to chicken. The notion frankly creeps me out. I'd do it if it would be the difference between life and death, but any other alternative I would take first. And my worry about disease, in spite of cooking, is mostly stuff like prion diseases, which cannot be destroyed by boiling, alcohol, acid, standard autoclaving methods, or radiation. I realize that prions are a disease of brain tissues, but I don't even trust that grocery store meat (which is theoretically just muscle) is 100% safe. People got mad cow disease from eating beef (muscle tissue) from cows that were fed the brains and spinal cords of other cows, so clearly there is a connection in there somewhere. Now, I'm not trying to be holier than thou and say I never eat meat from the grocery store or restaurants or anything, I take that risk about once a week, as do most of you I assume. At this point I guess I'm just trying to validate my own feelings on the subject. Rebuttals welcome. I'd love to not be paranoid about eating meat.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

High 70s low 80s.

I gave her a bath yesterday and let her soak and float. She had gotten messy in the small crate. She latched on my fingers in the deep sink and showed great grip in that left foot.

I took off work today to do some work around the house and yard. Kept her in my sight in the dog crate. She got real anxious and I let her out. She wanted to go to the nest to lay. She layed an egg and broke it I’m sure by stumbling around.

Back in the crate. But I let her out towards the evening. She is trying to put weight on it. But she flaps her wings to take weight off and does a quick hop. She sat down in the grass. I scooped her up after an hour and back in the crate.

Will be a week tomorrow. I think she is about 25% better.

Have you been giving her any poultry vitamins?
Look for one that has vitamin E, B1 and B2.

 

[McChics]

No vitamins. That’s a good idea.

Here is. Video from today. I let her venture out a bit to see how she is doing.

 

[McChics]

So...she surprised us all and got on the roost tonight on her own.

Keeping an eye on her with the coop cam.

 

[McChics]

Update - so she is limping terrible - but working around her limp. She is getting around the yard just about as fast as normal. My heart breaks for her, but she seem happy pushing through it than keeping her isolated. The other girls have accepted her and she is back on the roost and laying beautiful eggs every day. I have a real Montley crew - one of my hens is the oldest of all from the original group in 2015. The other has a birth defect to her leg and has limped from day one. Then..there is Sugar that was the picture of health and strength...and now this. And...just found out that ONE of my new chicks is a HE. He started making his calls this weekend. That leaves the other as a mystery just yet. So far "she" is not crowing like her brooder bud.