Rhode Island Red has a broken leg

chickenalaking3

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My hen and tried to fly up and roost but unfortunately fell and broke her leg, the leg was broken kind of high up so my husband and I did our best to splint the leg ourselves. We decided to do this because the chicken overall seemed fine still, hearty appetite, drinking fine, still laying a daily egg doesn't appear to be showing signs of much pain, also I keep her separate from the flock. It's been about a week and for the past few days has been standing on her one foot and hopping around. I was wanting to get some opinions from other flockers and feedback. Anyone else have this issue? How did you/would you go about it?
 
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I'd use the wait-and-see approach for as long as she's behaving normally. If she heals normally, great! If not, you might have to consider more drastic measures.
 
Thank you, so far all is well and she's hopping around more. My friend who is a vet tech took a look at her and said everything we did was right and to keep doing it.
 

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