Sunny Acres VA
Hatching
- Aug 24, 2022
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Hi,
New to the forum, but have gotten tons of guidance via other people's posts. I have a guinea hen who started limping (no blood, no bone protrusion, no physical signs of injury other than one lame leg). The next day she started laying! This is our first go with Guineas and she is VERY young - just under 15 weeks. I don't know if she is limping because of something related to laying. She has laid an egg a day for three days. We had her confined to the coop in a dog kennel but she was very stressed being away from the flock. Today she was allowed to leave the kennel and coop and went for it big time. She found a spot that is safe from predators in our garden. My question - leave her here if she goes broody? Bring her food/water? She seems to be moving around ok, got up into a garden bed a few feet off the ground. I want her to heal and do what she needs to do for laying. Our flock is trained to go into the coop every night without any issue. Do we leave her out? Do we bring her back into the coop and close her back in the kennel? My priority is getting her leg healed over hatching keets. I just don't know where the line is for stress prolonging injury.
New to the forum, but have gotten tons of guidance via other people's posts. I have a guinea hen who started limping (no blood, no bone protrusion, no physical signs of injury other than one lame leg). The next day she started laying! This is our first go with Guineas and she is VERY young - just under 15 weeks. I don't know if she is limping because of something related to laying. She has laid an egg a day for three days. We had her confined to the coop in a dog kennel but she was very stressed being away from the flock. Today she was allowed to leave the kennel and coop and went for it big time. She found a spot that is safe from predators in our garden. My question - leave her here if she goes broody? Bring her food/water? She seems to be moving around ok, got up into a garden bed a few feet off the ground. I want her to heal and do what she needs to do for laying. Our flock is trained to go into the coop every night without any issue. Do we leave her out? Do we bring her back into the coop and close her back in the kennel? My priority is getting her leg healed over hatching keets. I just don't know where the line is for stress prolonging injury.