FOUND MY HEN ON HER BACK WITH HER FEET UP AND NOT ABLE TO KEEP HER HEAD UP

isilma

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Aug 26, 2017
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Hello!

I found my hen in the coop 4 night ago laying on her back not able to stand up, not even her head she could keep up, I pick her up and put her in a comfortable cage and put some blankets around her to help her head stay up, I am not sure what happen to her but I think the rooster attack her, bt i see no evidence on her body of this (a few days ago he attack her sister and her eye was swollen, then the day before he attack me and i can not walk due to the hole in my knee :-( ) the next day when i went to let them out coop, she was a little better but now able to stand on her own and not eating or drinking.
I have been hand feeding her for the last days and she is improving, now she can walk and run but still fall every now and then, still not eating on her own and she want to go to the nest and put her egg but two days in a row I put her in, she stay for awhile and no egg, today after she got out the nest she poop and something came out that may have been an egg but it was more like a mass of eggs cells clump up together and a bit hard.
her left leg seem to hurt her and she is not putting a lot of weight on it, around the knee are when i touch it she cray.
Any recommendation what to give her to help with pain or inflamation or any idea what can be wrong with her if the rooster did not attack her? and any recommendation what to do with Elton (roster) he is attacking me, the blanck hens and some time he goes after the ducks as well.
thanks for your help
 
My neighbor had a Rhode Island Red that was mean and he got rid of it. I gave him one of my Silver Laced Wyandotte roosters and he loves that Roo. Mine is very easy to be around and he does not hurt my hens or attack me. I do have an Ameraucana rooster, and he has bitten the comb on one of my hens, and he is very aggressive to the hens. I have named him baked chicken, and he needs to calm down or he will live up to his name. The roosters need several hens to breed with or they will sometimes injury the hens. I have 14 hens and two roos, but I am building a second housing to my chickens and will be splitting up the flock and a roo with each flock.
 

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