Cornish Cross with hurt leg?

[Bigtom Turkey]

OK. Np.

 

[Anonymous Chicken]

One thing I forgot to mention is that we moved her foot from behind her to it's regular position. After a while, when we went to check on her, she still had it where we put it (there was no obvious signs of pain or discomfort).

This is the leg that she's been sticking out behind her:

And this is the position her wing is sometimes in:

 

[Morrigan]

How old is your chicken? Are you raising them for meat?

Even on a restricted diet, CX grow very fast and, in some cases the weight gain outstrips the skeletal strength needed to properly support them, and standing and walking becomes too painful for them. There also seems to be some genetic variation. In most of my batches, the chickens stayed mobile and walking to their planning butchering date. However, there was one batch from a different hatchery then I normally used, in which 3 or 4 began struggling to walk around 6 weeks.

There is really not much you can do for them when that happens. When I raised them for meat, I learned it was best do an early butchering for any slow walkers.

 

[Anonymous Chicken]

Update: She has both legs in the correct position! She still isn't moving around much, she does move around somewhat, but she seems better today!

How old is your chicken? Are you raising them for meat?

Even on a restricted diet, CX grow very fast and, in some cases the weight gain outstrips the skeletal strength needed to properly support them, and standing and walking becomes too painful for them. There also seems to be some genetic variation. In most of my batches, the chickens stayed mobile and walking to their planning butchering date. However, there was one batch from a different hatchery then I normally used, in which 3 or 4 began struggling to walk around 6 weeks.

There is really not much you can do for them when that happens. When I raised them for meat, I learned it was best do an early butchering for any slow walkers.

She is seven months old. We were originally raising them for meat, but decided to keep her. (She started laying eggs for us.) She was the smallest of the lot.

This is our second batch. We noticed that the first batch we had was much different than this one. The first grew faster and were plumper, but took longer for all their feathers to come in. This batch was much leaner, took a longer time to grow, and a lot of them had very long legs. We got both batches from the same place, but at different times. They were both very active and none seemed to be in pain at any point. She is the first chicken we've had a problem with.

 

[Anonymous Chicken]

UPDATE:

Our Patient is doing much better! She is standing and walking just fine now! Thank you to all who tried to help us, you're much appreciated!

 

[Ruby Rogue]

UPDATE:

Our Patient is doing much better! She is standing and walking just fine now! Thank you to all who tried to help us, you're much appreciated!

How did you fix her issue?

 

[Anonymous Chicken]

How did you fix her issue?

We brought her into our breezeway, made sure she had plenty of food and water, kept her leg in the proper position, gave her some herbs to fight any possible inflammation, checked on her many times a day, kept her calm, and the rest was her own body healing itself! She slowly started to improve, and now she's standing and walking around her pen!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

She may have sprained it

 

[Ruby Rogue]

We brought her into our breezeway, made sure she had plenty of food and water, kept her leg in the proper position, gave her some herbs to fight any possible inflammation, checked on her many times a day, kept her calm, and the rest was her own body healing itself! She slowly started to improve, and now she's standing and walking around her pen!

Wonderful news. Glad she's doing well!

 

[Anonymous Chicken]

She may have sprained it

Sorry, I missed your post! We believe she probably did sprain it. She's just like normal now, though!