Help! Hen has Injured foot!

[Shezadandy]

Ahh, big flocks.......OP's flock is small, under 10....so separation might not be good in his case.

Yep. There is a marked difference in the dynamics of small flocks and large flocks.

 

[JoeInPA]

So a little off topic but here are just some more pictures showing around the coop in case anyone is interested.

The quick and easy poop board is... effective?

Here is the location of the coop relative to my house and the rest of the yard. I'm pretty happy with it. The soil gets a little saturated, but it does that everywhere. I do have some plans to modify the design a little bit, but this will get me through the winter no problems. I want to make the run walk-in size, I want to replace the chicken wire with hardware cloth, and I'd like to maybe put some type of French drain or hydroblox behind the coop so that rain water runs off into the creek. And I'm sure I'll do a little landscaping in the form of some small bushes or flowers around the outside.

Here is one of the back access door open that I took for Shezadandy.

And all the chickens playing around inside-

 

[aart]

How's da limper?

 

[JoeInPA]

How's da limper?

Noticeably better! She is definitely still limping but she's putting a little bit of weight on it, and getting around quite a bit better than just a couple days ago. I think she's well on her way to recovery.

 

[aart]

Noticeably better! She is definitely still limping but she's putting a little bit of weight on it, and getting around quite a bit better than just a couple days ago. I think she's well on her way to recovery.

That's good!
IME it can take weeks for the limp to totally go away.
Is that swelling still there?

 

[JoeInPA]

That's good!
IME it can take weeks for the limp to totally go away.
Is that swelling still there?

Hard to tell, I had a hard time seeing it to begin with, and I haven't attempted to pick her up to take a closer look due to her being sorta difficult to handle, but nothing stood out to me.

 

[JoeInPA]

Limpy was/is looking much better yesterday and today. She is still standing on one foot if she stands for any length of time, but she is putting weight on both feet and if you weren't looking for it, you might not even notice she was limping.

 

[JoeInPA]

Thought I'd give a quick update. Lucy is looking much, much better. She's using both feet, scratching and pecking around and standing normally. She may still have a bit of a limp but it's hard to tell, and if she does, it's not affecting her at all. I'm not exactly sure what happened to cause it, probably just a bad landing but she seems to have made a very quick recovery.

 

[Eggcessive]

Glad that she is improving, and thanks for the update.