Not-Bald Eagle
In the Brooder
- Jan 28, 2021
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Hola,
My favorite chicken, a black australorp, has had a limp that comes and goes for a week or so for the past year. I would separate her and she would usually heal up and be back to normal in a week. It happened again, but she's been down for about a month now. I found her laying in the middle of the yard, in the middle of the pouring rain and she couldn't even stand. I put her in my chick brooder to heal up, but she's still not doing well. She can stand and move, but the limp is still really bad and she stands kind of crooked, like one shoulder down, one up. She basically just lays down like a chicken puddle all day and looks out over the valley and the other birds. She eventually just kind of plops forward and lays there and pecks the ground for bugs and what not. I'm not going to cull her, any tips for helping her out as far as healing quicker? Or anything I should look for on her physically? I don't see bumblefoot, nor mites, but maybe I'm not looking in the right spots. I have 2 flocks, my main flock and my "favorites flock", she's obviously in my favorites flock which is her and two other super chill hens that I watch constantly and they are all super-homies so she's for sure not being picked on.
My favorite chicken, a black australorp, has had a limp that comes and goes for a week or so for the past year. I would separate her and she would usually heal up and be back to normal in a week. It happened again, but she's been down for about a month now. I found her laying in the middle of the yard, in the middle of the pouring rain and she couldn't even stand. I put her in my chick brooder to heal up, but she's still not doing well. She can stand and move, but the limp is still really bad and she stands kind of crooked, like one shoulder down, one up. She basically just lays down like a chicken puddle all day and looks out over the valley and the other birds. She eventually just kind of plops forward and lays there and pecks the ground for bugs and what not. I'm not going to cull her, any tips for helping her out as far as healing quicker? Or anything I should look for on her physically? I don't see bumblefoot, nor mites, but maybe I'm not looking in the right spots. I have 2 flocks, my main flock and my "favorites flock", she's obviously in my favorites flock which is her and two other super chill hens that I watch constantly and they are all super-homies so she's for sure not being picked on.
