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MerMc

MerMc

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Hi,

I received a chick in early June 2015 because she (at least were very sure she is a pullet!) was born with a leg bent backwards very far. We got permission from our apartment manager to have her! Yes she is on our back porch. We made our 4'x4' raised garden into her fenced run and a little dog house into her coop. She is an only bird, other than her "sister" a mirror we have in her coop with her so she doesn't feel too lonely. We call her reflection pal Flow lol.
Between the person who hatched her and myself lots of physical therapy happened and her leg corrected it's self. Neither my husband nor myself have ever had chickens, we have learned a lot and can not wait to get a house so we can get more chickens! People were not kidding about how much of an addiction they are (and were only a few months in!)!
 
Welcome to BYC, and good job on rehabilitating her.
 
Hi, welcome to BYC!

That's great you were able to take her in and rehabilitate her leg, good job! Yep, chickens are addicting, you can't stop at just one.

It's nice to have you here, I'm looking forward to more stories of your little girl and her BFF Flow, lol.
 
Glad you joined us at BYC. Lots of people have house chickens as pets. My friend has 4 house pet chickens.

Foot/leg problems are quite prevalent - I'm sure people would love to know how you and the breeder managed to coax her leg into position. It might prevent some early culls if people knew some can be helped.
 
We did a lot of very very very slow leg stretches just like you do in human rehab. Range of motion kind of things. Just had to make sure we went very slow so we didn't hurt her or do more damage than good.
 

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