Kdolly, I'm glad she's doing better! Laying very well too!
Mine are all overweight, from the table scraps. I cook rice a lot, so they eat their daily feed plus almost every other day they get rice or them old fashioned lard n milk buiscits. I go fishing when I can, so they eat a lot of fish guts too; either that or a bad fishing day makes me throw the rest of the worms out for them.
My only mature game hen has a messed up hip from some predator pulling her leg out the wire in the pen, and couldn't walk for two weeks, and stayed in the house getting spoiled like an infant. She was the wildest chicken I ever had, but she's now the baby. I let her out while I'm doing yard work, and if something startles her she hops right between my feet. She jumps into the car after me, and will sneak into the house if she can. If I shut the front door while she's out there, she'll holler for over an hour for me to let her in. She's the one in my avatar pic, debating between naming her Jewel or Petunia because she sits at the petunias all the time.
