What happened to my hen?

[Clarisse0304]

At 6am yesterday, I’ve heard my hen being disturbed, when I went to check I found her laying upside down like 8 feet from where she usually roost. My chickens free range.
She has no visible injuries other than I saw some bruising underneath one of her wings, no lost feathers but she’s lame on one side and has no balance, head tilting low. She’s eating and drinking not as much as usual just a little bit. She closes her eyes a lot and just looks as if she is dizzy. She has movement on both her legs and feet, she’s able to flap her wings, she’s able to take a step or two before falling to one side, while on the ground she fights to get up without any success, when I hold her up she’s able to take one or two steps, I don’t know what to do.

 

[Eggcessive]

Sorry about your hen. Look her over for any puncture wounds or cuts. How old is she? Is she low in the pecking order, or does she get picked on by others? Do you have a rooster? Does she fly a lot? How high are the roosts? I would guess that she might have flown into something in the coop, possibly trying to escape, and got hurt. Is there any place a predator could have gotten in? For now, I would keep her close to food and water, inside a dog crate, so that she is not picked on. A chicken sling can sometimes help lame chickens if they will tolerate them. Some do not. Make sure to hold food and water up to her beak in a small bowl several times a day. I mix a lot of water into a little chicken feed, and give some scrambled egg, and b complex vitamins 1/2 tablet daily could help.

 

[Clarisse0304]

Sorry about your hen. Look her over for any puncture wounds or cuts. How old is she? Is she low in the pecking order, or does she get picked on by others? Do you have a rooster? Does she fly a lot? How high are the roosts? I would guess that she might have flown into something in the coop, possibly trying to escape, and got hurt. Is there any place a predator could have gotten in? For now, I would keep her close to food and water, inside a dog crate, so that she is not picked on. A chicken sling can sometimes help lame chickens if they will tolerate them. Some do not. Make sure to hold food and water up to her beak in a small bowl several times a day. I mix a lot of water into a little chicken feed, and give some scrambled egg, and b complex vitamins 1/2 tablet daily could help.

Thank you for your reply, she doesn’t have any signs of cuts or puncture wounds. The only thing I’ve noticed is that her right wing is bruised, when I lift her wing up I could see it bruised, it was red before now is looking greenish, again no cuts nor punctures, no missing feathers. No roosters, she’s high in the pecking order, she’s one of our older hens maybe 3years old. She free ranges and roosters high up on a magnolia tree inside a fenced area, but when I found her she was upside down, feet straight up, on the ground about 8 feet from the magnolia tree out of the fenced area. It happened around 6am so I’ve heard when she was disturbed and ran out right away to see what happened, no signs of ant visible predators.