grannys gone and done it

[Granny Hatchet]

I have done very little today or at least so far..

Thats the best kind of day !

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I did download a piece from a site you might be interested in but I'd have to email it

can you copy and paste here ? Im not so good with that stuff.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

I took the mix and set it in front of him. He dove into that like he was starved (he was) .

I am a bad chicken mama...

Oh puhleaze, you couldn't be farther from it --- anyone who has put this much effort into trying to help this bird (and the others you have nursed) couldn't be farther from a "bad chicken mama" if they tried. You are a wonderful, caring chicken mama and any chicken is lucky to call your coops home! I am glad he is eating, that's great. I agree with fixing up a small hospital pen for him (crate, cardboard box, etc) that allows him to have a quiet, safe space to just lay there and rest, eat, etc. Manipulate the leg a bit and see what you can feel - do the same with the good leg so you can tell the difference between what is right and what is off - that will help you better know how to try to approach a fix.

On another note.....

The store in PA wants me!!!!!! I have to go to work tomorrow and do some forms on the computer. They want me to be there by Jan 9th or 23rd, depending on when this store will release me!!!!!

Doing the happy dance!!!

Outstanding!!!!!!!

10 pm here for me which is WAY past bedtime

I'm going to love you and leave you all untill tomorrow

Thankyou all for getting me through this most weird/scary evening.
May the rest of Friday be fantastic for you all

Goodnight, York, sleep well!

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

Quote:
my reward for being 4 days early on the self imposed deadline on the Christmas cards.

 

[willzpapa]

can you copy and paste here ? Im not so good with that stuff.

no I tried to copy the part I thought you needed and post it but it's all or nothing and it's quite a large file

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I have him there Mare, with a small heat lamp. I didnt feel him up because he was too stressed. I seen blood on his foot then realized its mine. arm looks a little infected.

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

I am waiting on my raw milk people before getting involved in anything.

 

[willzpapa]

We didn’t have the know-how to reset the bone without potentially making things worse, but it’s important that the break is given a chance to heal – even if it’s not perfectly straight anymore. So we splinted her leg too.

To do that, I used two short plastic splints and a length of old pantyhose. I made the splints out of my daughter’s craft set, using three different widths of straw, one inside the other, inside the other, to get a strong enough splint that was also easy to chop down to size. I used a little blue tack in each end to hold it together, and also to ensure the ends weren’t sharp.

I first wrapped a cold comfrey leaf around her leg (one that had been soaked in the tea and wasn’t prickly anymore – I’m not sure if that would matter to a chicken, but it sure felt better to me), then I wrapped a layer of pantyhose around that. That held the comfrey in place and also protected Ocean’s leg from having the splint dig in to it.

Then wrapped the rest of the pantihose around, placing a splint on either side as I did so.

a brown hen held up to show her bandaged broken leg

As soon as we put Ocean down, we could see the splint had improved things for her. She could now put a little weight on the leg for balance, where before it would just immediately collapse under her.

 

[willzpapa]

One week on, the break is not healed of course (that will take weeks at least, I guess), but Ocean seems much improved, morale-wise. She’s not walking on the leg, which I take as a good thing for the healing process, but she will use it for balance when she bends down to eat or drink.

She’s also gotten very good at hoping – she’s really very fast – so she gets around okay. She can’t get up into the tree, or onto a roost in the house, so she’s just sitting on the floor in the house at night, but that seems okay for her

 

[willzpapa]

This is something else I found I know your saying I know how to splint a leg jacka** but I'm trying to help