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I have a New Hampshire from Freedom Ranger Hatchery, optimized for meat (dual purpose), male, hatched March 10th. Been feeding 23% meatbird food until about a week or two ago when I switched to 20% all flock. Today I noticed he had a leg going out to the side. Like, literally the side like the hock joint has slipped out of place. I have to break the legs there when processing, so I tried to see if I could slip it back into place based on what I know the joint looks like, but I"m a little shaky on the tendons and where they might be at, so when it wouldn't go with gentle pressure in the direction I thought it should, I didn't force it. Didn't want to hurt him further.
Is there a way to reset this leg and put the tendons back where they should be? The bird is walking around like it doesn't hurt, but it's got to be horrible for it. I can isolate and splint it if I get it back where it should go. The bird is not yet big enough for processing, it needs a few more months really if we can get him healed. Plus when I commit to raising them to processing age, I want the bird to get to live to processing age. Doesn't seem fair when their already short time gets cut even shorter. It's half the size of a same-age CX.
Is there an Article or a couple threads where this has been answered someone could link for me?
Never had this issue with CX.
I have a New Hampshire from Freedom Ranger Hatchery, optimized for meat (dual purpose), male, hatched March 10th. Been feeding 23% meatbird food until about a week or two ago when I switched to 20% all flock. Today I noticed he had a leg going out to the side. Like, literally the side like the hock joint has slipped out of place. I have to break the legs there when processing, so I tried to see if I could slip it back into place based on what I know the joint looks like, but I"m a little shaky on the tendons and where they might be at, so when it wouldn't go with gentle pressure in the direction I thought it should, I didn't force it. Didn't want to hurt him further.
Is there a way to reset this leg and put the tendons back where they should be? The bird is walking around like it doesn't hurt, but it's got to be horrible for it. I can isolate and splint it if I get it back where it should go. The bird is not yet big enough for processing, it needs a few more months really if we can get him healed. Plus when I commit to raising them to processing age, I want the bird to get to live to processing age. Doesn't seem fair when their already short time gets cut even shorter. It's half the size of a same-age CX.
Is there an Article or a couple threads where this has been answered someone could link for me?
Never had this issue with CX.
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