HENS FOOT TURNING BLACK- DONT KNOW WHY

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Update:

We order those antibiotics and they'd have gotten here by Monday (today) but I had a gut feeling she wasn't going to make it till then, so we took some money from saving and got her to a vet on Saturday.

They told us they don't know what could have caused the blackening on the ankle but it was possible the infection was cutting off circulation. They said she was in a lot of pain and asked us to consider putting her down. Given that she was eating, drinking, and walking around we didn't want to go to putting her down just yet. They gave her some pain meds and antibiotics, wrapped the foot, and told us to keep her isolated inside (so the heat doesn't stress her). They gave us anti inflammatory, antibiotics, and pain meds and told us to come back in a week, if she showed any signs of worsening then consider putting her down.

For the rest of that day she was very perked up and even tried walking on the leg. When Sunday came she was still eating and drinking but acting the same as she was Friday when I made the post (laying around and only getting up for food and water).

Later that night at 12am when I gave her her 8 hour pill she seemed extra droopy but I thought it was because I was waking her up late and she was just tired, so I put her back and didn't think much of it.

This morning (Monday morning 6am) I found that she had pasted in her sleep, doesn't seem to have been painful (im really hoping not), she was huddled like how she normally sleeps but very cold, we think it couldn't have been that long after I gave her that midnight pill.

We are definitely going to miss our girl Houdini, she was definitely a character. She had tons of spirit and we were really hoping she would pull through this. What upsets me the most is that we could never truly find out what was wrong with her. If this is happing to your hen I hope you find out a way to save her.

Oh that is sad... I`m sorry she didn`t make it... Losing birds is always so heartbreaking...