One of our hens is limping???

My hen Anastasia to be exact.

She seems perfectly alright otherwise - we managed to catch her this morning (she's not as friendly as her sister Genevieve) and we had a good old look at her feet and legs. She certainly didn't squawk when we examined her legs which I would have thought she would if she was in pain.

Her comb and wattle look bright and healthy and she's eating just fine (other hens who have been poorly and died went all floppy around the comb and wattle and stopped eating and joining in with the others) and she's still marching about with the others, just with a bit of a limp.

We do have a very high perch (favoured by the 3 newest girls) in the middle of the run - I wonder if she's fallen of that awkwardly or something?

Just want to check with you guys that limping isn't necessarily a symptom of something ghastly!

Hi!

They have a low perch near the high one too.
The highone is more part of the roof support network but the three red heads were sleeping up there when they first moved in and weren't brave enough to go indoors!

They leap up on anything to be the first to grab canary seed! Fannie-Annie as I call her isn't realy known to be a jumper though. She just wolfed down the corn I took in with me!

I think she's probably fallen off something awkwardly - but I will be on the lookout!

Hens certainly be a bit daft sometimes - thats for sure!!

But I love them all the same! :happy:

One died May/June last year,the other 8th january this year.
All girls have been well otherwise. The first was Betty - I think she was egg bound. The one in January, Kelly was off colour for 8 days.
The 3 new girls were introduced in Sept/Oct.
There is only a 6-8 month age difference in the girls.
The first 10 had all vaccinations. Don't know about the 3 new girls - they came from the brother in law of one of my chicken chums.

They were kept aside for a week, but were never close with the original girls until late december as they were a bit mean!!

I worm them every 3-4 months with 2% Flubenvet

All are well in themselves - a few have bald bottoms! Bit of hen-pecking nonsense going on.

Anastasia is supposed to be a silver sussex, but I think she's more silver sussex x black rock.
The red girls, not sure - got to be some sussex in there as Rosie has the sussex neck feather patterns
1 grey Marans, 1 Brown Lohmann, 2 black rock, 1 amber rock, 1 silver sussex, 1 columbian blacktail.

We have a couple with bald undercarriages now! The grey Marans and the amber rock are bullies
Genevieve (my silver sussex) - she is now the queen bee so she dishes out a bit of punishment every now and then!

My chicken day again today.

Anastasia is looking better - not limping as badly so I should think it was a fall.

More worried about the elderly mog now!!