Posted: Fri Nov 09, 12 8:27 am Post subject: Limping chicken. Help please!
Hello. One of my cream legbars seems to have bruised her leg. She's having a lot of difficulty walking on it and it's slightly twisted inwards so it 'traps' her good foot under and it keeps tripping her up. DH suggested taking her to the vet, which I'm perfectly happy to do if it would help. But I wanted to see if there was anything I could do myself to help her first? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Hello. One of my cream legbars seems to have bruised her leg. She's having a lot of difficulty walking on it and it's slightly twisted inwards so it 'traps' her good foot under and it keeps tripping her up. DH suggested taking her to the vet, which I'm perfectly happy to do if it would help. But I wanted to see if there was anything I could do myself to help her first? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Hi a friends chicken recently ran into their back door and has since been limping and unable to put her foot down - she has transfered hers to a smaller 'hospital' cage so it can't move around so much and aggravate it .
I would suggest gently checking to see if you can feel any brakes - if not try confining her for a while - if that doesn't work after a week or it gets worse try taking her to the vet - my friend did end up taking hers and the vet gave it an anti inflamitory injection - this does seem to have helped along with being in a smaller space.
An uexplained limp can be a sign of Mareks, which has been said on here before, isn't good.
She is the bully chicken. Forever chasing the others round the coop and flying over/under/into things. I wouldn't be surprised if someone finally got the better of her.
I've felt for a break and there is none. Nor does she struggle when I try to manipulate her leg. So I suspect bruised badly rather than broken. She's still limping quite a bit but marginally less than she was last night when we found her.
I've been feeding her scrambled eggs and polenta which she loves.
She's now confined in the downstairs loo where she can't walk around or (more importantly) engage in her favourite pass-time - tormenting the young birds.
We had to cull her. She wasn't getting any better and yesterday she looked really sorry for herself and her walking had become even more tough. When we dressed her, we found that one of her legs is so wobbly. We think she dislocated her leg at the hip because one was really wobbly compared to the other. It's such a shame as she was such a lovely friendly (to us) bird.
She wasn't getting any better and yesterday she looked really sorry for herself and her walking had become even more tough. When we dressed her, we found that one of her legs is so wobbly. We think she dislocated her leg at the hip because one was really wobbly compared to the other. It's such a shame as she was such a lovely friendly (to us) bird. 
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