Re: Lame chicken, how will she do?

From: Ray Drouillard (cosmicpam2_at_comcast.net)
Date: 10/24/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 22:17:19 -0400

We have had a couple chickens go lame for various reasons, and they got
better. When I was a kid, some friends had chickens who had somehow
lost their feet. They couldn't perch or scratch, but they got around
just fine.

Just watch her and make sure the other girls don't pick on her. Most
likely, she'll be fine after a while. If she remains lame, she'll still
be OK.

Ray Drouillard

<usenet@isbd.co.uk> wrote in message
news:2tvihjF23q2peU2@uni-berlin.de...
> One of our hybrid chickens got hurt yesterday, I'm not quite sure how.
> When I shut them up last night she was sitting the wrong side of the
> fence looking as if she was preparing to settle down for the night
> outside.
>
> So I went and rescued her (no mean feat, she was in the middle of a
> very brambley hedge) and popped her back over the fence. It was then
> that I saw she had been hurt as she was hobbling along rather
> painfully. She stopped to eat and drink on the way into the henhouse
> and then went to bed with the others.
>
> This morning she was still very lame but apparently eating and
> drinking OK. Here tail isn't 'perky' either, it's sort of droopy
> rather than pointing up. I wonder if she might have been hit a
> glancing blow by a car or something. There's no visible damage
> anywhere.
>
> As she seems quite bright otherwise and is hobbling about with the
> others, eating and drinking etc. my feeling is just to see if she gets
> better. Does this seem reasonable?
>
>
> --
> Chris Green

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