PonderingKiwi
Chirping
- Mar 19, 2023
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Hello! Firstly, I’ll tell you guys that my lady who lost the back of her neck is doing wonderfully. We put her outside on days it’s not freezing and she’s all but totally healed. The whole ordeal also made her our nicest chicken so she hangs out with us and invites herself inside are ISA Browns a skinny breed? Cuz she feel super thin even tho she eats a ton. Upon inspection, all the browns I have are pretty thin. While our jersey giants/EEs are fuller and our rooster is a fatty.. so I don’t think it’s worms.
Anyway! Yesterday we went out to feed everyone and noticed one of our Jersey giant ladies had a pretty heavy limp. We brought her inside and washed her feet carefully.. I then checked for bumble foot/cuts/breaks.. and saw/felt nothing abnormal. I remember reading that it’s best to restrict limping ladies so they can’t move around too much. So we broke out the chicken hospital again and put her in there over night. I know there’s some disagreement about treating animal pain.. but I side on helping relieve the pain. Plus the crate is so small all she can really do is stand up and turn around to eat and drink. So I gave her a baby aspirin. She seemed pretty exhausted anyway and after I carefully plopped her in there, she didn’t stand up again till the morning. I let her out in the morning and was hoping it’d be a little better.. but it’s not. I noticed that it seems like it’s her hip that’s hurt. Not her foot. She’s also curving her step? Idk how to describe that. Like normally they step straight forward one leg at a time.. but she’s bringing her leg forward in a roundabout way.. out a bit and then forward. I hope that makes sense. I know there’s not much that can be done.. but if there’s more I can do or if anyone knows what I’m talking about, I’d appreciate anything yall have to offer! Her name is Gladys. Oh and we named the brown Edna.. now that we can tell her from her sisters
Edit: oh and I can’t tell if she’s drinking water yet, I haven’t seen her drink. She doesn’t seem to be eating much, but I put some of those dried mealworm things in there and she did eat those. And she didn’t lay today.
Anyway! Yesterday we went out to feed everyone and noticed one of our Jersey giant ladies had a pretty heavy limp. We brought her inside and washed her feet carefully.. I then checked for bumble foot/cuts/breaks.. and saw/felt nothing abnormal. I remember reading that it’s best to restrict limping ladies so they can’t move around too much. So we broke out the chicken hospital again and put her in there over night. I know there’s some disagreement about treating animal pain.. but I side on helping relieve the pain. Plus the crate is so small all she can really do is stand up and turn around to eat and drink. So I gave her a baby aspirin. She seemed pretty exhausted anyway and after I carefully plopped her in there, she didn’t stand up again till the morning. I let her out in the morning and was hoping it’d be a little better.. but it’s not. I noticed that it seems like it’s her hip that’s hurt. Not her foot. She’s also curving her step? Idk how to describe that. Like normally they step straight forward one leg at a time.. but she’s bringing her leg forward in a roundabout way.. out a bit and then forward. I hope that makes sense. I know there’s not much that can be done.. but if there’s more I can do or if anyone knows what I’m talking about, I’d appreciate anything yall have to offer! Her name is Gladys. Oh and we named the brown Edna.. now that we can tell her from her sisters
Edit: oh and I can’t tell if she’s drinking water yet, I haven’t seen her drink. She doesn’t seem to be eating much, but I put some of those dried mealworm things in there and she did eat those. And she didn’t lay today.