Lame Chicken

[Eggcessive]

If you contact the state vet, ask if they can email a shipping label for overnight shipping via Fedex or UPS. That might save the trip, but raise the price some.

 

[LilyD]

I’m sorry Lily I know how excited you’ve been for the orpingtons, I really hate to see you lose one. I bet these are the batch I watched hatch!



young boys are awful. I had one injure a heavier bird trying to mate her on the roost. She IS able to move around at a hobble and lays an egg in a ground level near box daily, but she won’t leave the coop area ever anymore and I’m trying to contemplate quality of life myself for her. I really held out hope for a miraculous recovery but there are slimming chances.

thank you for doing all you could... I, also would put myself in your care in a second!

Thanks yeah she was one of the summers chicks and it's hard to see her go but I can tell she's uncomfortable. She keeps trying to get up and can't use that right leg much at all. The left will push her off but without anything on the right to catch her she can't even hobble. I can move her to an upright seat where she can eat and put weight on her good leg but she never really has tried to use the bad one at all or even moving it.

I had a group of three boys at the end of fall that were waiting at the bottom of the ramp for the girls to come down out of the coop and they would mob them there. The day I noticed it everyone was doing good by that evening she was limping pretty heavily and wasn't wanting to put weight on it. The next day I rehomed the roosters. That night she couldn't make it up the ramp in to the coop so I put her in a dog crate in the house. I feel bad though and wish I could do more.

I put in a message to our only poultry vet and will bring her there to be euthanized and tested to make sure it's what I think it is. Just to be safe.

 

[LilyD]

If you contact the state vet, ask if they can email a shipping label for overnight shipping via Fedex or UPS. That might save the trip, but raise the price some.

They (the testing dept of ag) are only about an hour away from me so not too bad as long as I can get her there before the snow gets here tomorrow night in to Thursday, fingers crossed they will be okay with that. We don't have any official vets for poultry. We have one who says she will see backyard chickens but she charges $100 fee to start and then another $65 because it's a specialty client (translation not a dog or cat) that's before diagnosing or testing for anything. Seems kind of unreal to me.