Hen keeps standing on one leg and limping when she walks, she also started crowing like Rooster. Not sure what’s going on!

[ChickInnMama]

Here’s one more picture of her set up in the little “crate clinic” we always set up for any sick/injured chickens

 

[ChickInnMama]

Good Afternoon, is it possible for stress to make them have a harder molt than they would have otherwise? Or maybe it was just a harder molt for her this year anyway… but she’s losing a ton of feathers, my other hens that have already molted this year had a soft molt and I’m just wondering if hers is worse because she’s stressed from being inside due to her sprain? The link I read said to keep her separated for 10 days to let the sprain heal before I tried putting her back out. She is still often only standing on the one leg and holding the hurt one up, we’ve checked it multiple times and nothing seems swollen, bruised, broken, nothing stuck to the bottom of her foot, no bumble foot. This is a picture of her crate, I just cleaned all the feathers out last night before bed around 10:30 pm and now at 1:15 in the afternoon I’m about to clean it out again. Thanks so much for any advice or thoughts/experience shared!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Good Afternoon, is it possible for stress to make them have a harder molt than they would have otherwise? Or maybe it was just a harder molt for her this year anyway… but she’s losing a ton of feathers, my other hens that have already molted this year had a soft molt and I’m just wondering if hers is worse because she’s stressed from being inside due to her sprain? The link I read said to keep her separated for 10 days to let the sprain heal before I tried putting her back out. She is still often only standing on the one leg and holding the hurt one up, we’ve checked it multiple times and nothing seems swollen, bruised, broken, nothing stuck to the bottom of her foot, no bumble foot. This is a picture of her crate, I just cleaned all the feathers out last night before bed around 10:30 pm and now at 1:15 in the afternoon I’m about to clean it out again. Thanks so much for any advice or thoughts/experience shared!

Generally the better the layer the harder they molt. She probably was already starting when you brought her in. Some can drop nearly all their feathers over night. She can go back outside if you can safely confine her to a smaller area within the coop or run.