- Jan 31, 2013
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Hi all! I am brand new to BYC (which came highly recommended by a good friend of mine!) and we are newbies at raising chickens. We have 6 hens we got for Easter last year that are like pets to us. My 4 children and I LOVE them, the hubby puts up with my "chicken lady craziness" 
When my son got home from school this afternoon, he found our girl Daisy lying on her back in a garden spot. She was pretty lifeless and we feared the worst. We brought her inside and wrapped her in a towel to warm her (we are in UT, it was about 25 degrees today and LOTS of snow here). She had a little bit of blood under her left wing and blood on her left foot - I am pretty certain now that she probably scratched herself. A few hours before we found her, all the hens were making a LOT of noise, but I knew they had water and looking out the window I didn't see anything amiss - now I know that they were trying to tell me something was wrong!
She's been inside since then and after a while began taking little sips of water - I added a little sugar to it, like a friend suggested. She's been eating a little. When I moved her from the small box we had her in to an indoor pen, I found an egg - without a shell - under her.
She moves her head around fine, but does not move her legs or attempt to stand at all. When I laid her down she did not want her foot under her, acted like it was painful. My husband was looking her over a little when he got home and when he gently pulled on a foot, she did get riled up about that, you could tell something was painful to her.
And she has not pooped at all in the time that she has been inside - going on 9 hours now.
Any ideas or help would be appreciated! TIA

When my son got home from school this afternoon, he found our girl Daisy lying on her back in a garden spot. She was pretty lifeless and we feared the worst. We brought her inside and wrapped her in a towel to warm her (we are in UT, it was about 25 degrees today and LOTS of snow here). She had a little bit of blood under her left wing and blood on her left foot - I am pretty certain now that she probably scratched herself. A few hours before we found her, all the hens were making a LOT of noise, but I knew they had water and looking out the window I didn't see anything amiss - now I know that they were trying to tell me something was wrong!
She's been inside since then and after a while began taking little sips of water - I added a little sugar to it, like a friend suggested. She's been eating a little. When I moved her from the small box we had her in to an indoor pen, I found an egg - without a shell - under her.
She moves her head around fine, but does not move her legs or attempt to stand at all. When I laid her down she did not want her foot under her, acted like it was painful. My husband was looking her over a little when he got home and when he gently pulled on a foot, she did get riled up about that, you could tell something was painful to her.
And she has not pooped at all in the time that she has been inside - going on 9 hours now.
Any ideas or help would be appreciated! TIA