HELP!

[Makenna2134]

Around a week ago we found my chicken laying in our drive way, she didn’t make it back to the coop. She was in rough condition. The other chickens also were pecking her. Her pecking wounds have healed but her leg has not. We have no idea what is going on with it… We have checked her foot for bumble foot, nothing there. We have soaked her in warm water too. Her leg is warm to the touch while her non hurt leg is not warm. Any ideas?

 

[LizGio]

@azygous @Wyorp Rock @Eggcessive

 

[azygous]

Her behavior gives the most important clues as to her state of well being. Please describe how she is acting. Eating? Not eating? Lethargic or not? Walking normally or not? Balance problems or not?

Does she peck at the wound? Shake her wounded leg from time to time?

Poop normal or not like the others?

Laying or not? Was she laying before you found her?

What do you think happened to cause the injury?

 

[Makenna2134]

Her behavior gives the most important clues as to her state of well being. Please describe how she is acting. Eating? Not eating? Lethargic or not? Walking normally or not? Balance problems or not?

Does she peck at the wound? Shake her wounded leg from time to time?

Poop normal or not like the others?

Laying or not? Was she laying before you found her?

What do you think happened to cause the injury?

She still has her personality if that makes sense. She is alert. She has been eating, mealworms, blueberry’s and still her laying mash. Her poop was like little green pellets but that comes and goes.
She is hopping around only one 1 foot. I have been able to move her leg and such but she won’t put any pressure on it and holds it up.
She has not pecked at any wound.
She was laying before this. She has only since laid 2 eggs.
We do have a few rat traps set around. She could have possibly got into that. But we don’t know how she would have gotten her leg out of it.
@azygous

 

[azygous]

Do you feel anything that feels like a broken bone when you run your hand over the leg? Any swelling? If not a compound break, it may be a hairline fracture.

Don't force her to walk on it. Try to arrange her life so that she is protected from the others but can still be with them, and make it so she can eat and drink without competition from the others and not have to walk to reach food and water.

A fracture would require about six weeks to heal.

 

[Makenna2134]

Do you feel anything that feels like a broken bone when you run your hand over the leg? Any swelling? If not a compound break, it may be a hairline fracture.

Don't force her to walk on it. Try to arrange her life so that she is protected from the others but can still be with them, and make it so she can eat and drink without competition from the others and not have to walk to reach food and water.

A fracture would require about six weeks to heal.

Just where that little scab area is, it feels bumpy but I think that’s just from her scales and the scab. We have had her separated this whole time with food and water within reach.
Her foot was very swollen last week but it has went down. It may be a little swollen but not how it was.
Thank you.
@azygous

 

[Makenna2134]

Do you feel anything that feels like a broken bone when you run your hand over the leg? Any swelling? If not a compound break, it may be a hairline fracture.

Don't force her to walk on it. Try to arrange her life so that she is protected from the others but can still be with them, and make it so she can eat and drink without competition from the others and not have to walk to reach food and water.

A fracture would require about six weeks to heal.

Do you feel anything that feels like a broken bone when you run your hand over the leg? Any swelling? If not a compound break, it may be a hairline fracture.

Don't force her to walk on it. Try to arrange her life so that she is protected from the others but can still be with them, and make it so she can eat and drink without competition from the others and not have to walk to reach food and water.

A fracture would require about six weeks to heal.

Here are some photos from the day after of her leg. Compared to the original photos in this thread her foot is way less swollen and there’s no bruising anymore.
@azygous

 

[Eggcessive]

It sounds like she could have been been injured near the driveway, but if the chickens can get into rat traps, they need to be removed or placed inside cages where none cannot into them. The green bruising earlier looked worse above the hock joint, although the wound is below. I would use some disinfectant and plain antibiotic ointment on the wound daily. Rest can help heal her leg. Splinting a broken bone early on is best. Xrays by a vet can confirm broken bones.

 

[Makenna2134]

Her behavior gives the most important clues as to her state of well being. Please describe how she is acting. Eating? Not eating? Lethargic or not? Walking normally or not? Balance problems or not?

Does she peck at the wound? Shake her wounded leg from time to time?

Poop normal or not like the others?

Laying or not? Was she laying before you found her?

What do you think happened to cause the injury?

I just noticed her trying peck her injury? Why would this be @azygous

 

[azygous]

Because it hurts. It's what chickens do when something hurts.