Help! Old hen broke or fractured her hip or something

[AngelinaThePekin8]

I was gone for two days yesterday I came back, my brother was feeding them for me while I was away.
When I came home I found Pearl in a corner by a window well. I immediately knew something was wrong.
I felt her legs and everywhere I could think of, I couldn't feel anything weird. When I pick her up to move her she sometimes extends her legs and I feel and hear a slight crack sound. I don't really think anything's broken but maybe just fractured? Pearl is old and has already been having issues with pecking at her food properly.

1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.)
Idk what breed she is exactly, but she is thinner than she used to be (why will be explained later) she's about 8 yo now and she's probably 5-7 ish pounds im probably way off on that but Im just guessing based on how heavy she feels to me.

2) What is the behavior, exactly.
Way before she's hurt herself/got hurt she acted very disoriented and like she has bad depth perception. Now she cant/doesn't walk very well due to injury I believe.

3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms?
Since yesterday possibly the day before then too.

4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms?
No.

5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
I think one of her legs or hip area might be broken or fractured maybe just sprained or something. She has some peck wounds on her comb.

6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
My two guinea fowl who aren't even a year old yet have been not so nice to the chickens and sometimes to my ducks. My brother said he had to get Pearl out of the window well at some point either yesterday or the day before hand. So I believe she was probably chased into there by either the guineas or potentially the rooster/some other chicken or she just fell in somehow. Since she has an issue with her depth perception and balance in a way she might not have caught her self very well.

7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
She been eating an all flock mash sometimes I leave it dry and she's been drinking.

8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
Her poop spears normal from what I've seen of them.

9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
I haven't done much as I don't know what's going on exactly and how to treat it. I've made sure she won't be pestered by other chickens and the guinea fowl as much. And I put her in a playpen in the breezeway last night, I wouldn't have done that though if two of my ducks were not in the breezeway inside a kennel.

10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet?
I have to treat it myself I don't think the vet is an option.

11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
I took some yesterday hopefully the will give some insight on what's going on.

I think the beginning of this post is probably a little hard to understand maybe but I don't know what else to say. Or how to say it so if you want something explained please do tell me so you can help me help Pearl better. Thank you for reading this!

 

[dawg53]

It's possible Pearl may have sprained or strained a ligament or tendon. Here's a link for you to read regarding these types of injuries. Hopefully it will help:
See post #4 in this link:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/limping-chicken.1243650/

 

[AngelinaThePekin8]

It's possible Pearl may have sprained or strained a ligament or tendon. Here's a link for you to read regarding these types of injuries. Hopefully it will help:
See post #4 in this link:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/limping-chicken.1243650/

That's what I've been hoping is goin on!
Thank you!

 

[AngelinaThePekin8]

Pearl has some company while I eat and figure out if Im going to let her put today.

The chickens can go in and out of the breeze way and can't go to the part where there is more of a walkway for humans.

I will post more pictures of Pearl and give more of an update on how she's doing later.

 

[Mason Farm and Ranch]

Give her a baby Aspirin. If the perceived leg injury improves, it is a physical injury. If it doesn't, I'd take guess an Intestinal parasite causing nutrition absorption issues.

 

[AngelinaThePekin8]

She ate and drank today she tried moving to her food but couldn't so I had to lift her up and put her in front of it.
In this pic she was trying to get to the food everyone else was eating. But all she was able to comfortably do was sit up a little and then she'd lay back down.

I put some Nutri drench in her food in case she's really weak and maybe it'll help her heal to.
I haven't noticed any swelling or anything being completely limp she can still move both her legs but doing that seems to hurt her I don't know which leg or where at or if it's both legs that are bothering her. If it's even her legs that are the issue.
This is the window well she fell into, and where Frankie (the male guinea) is where the corner Pearl was at when I first noticed she had something wrong.

Her poop still looks normal, for her anyways.

I can't think of much else to put in here right now.

 

[AngelinaThePekin8]

When I first found Pearl when I got back from being gone for Two days and after feeling her for wounds/injurys of any kind but found basically none I thought that she might have been super hungry and probably really thirsty and I even was kind of hoping that was the case wouldn't hunger/dehydration be easier to treat in a way?
I also was/have been thinking that whatever was going on with her vision or whatever was getting worse but Im not to sure if that's the case.
Here's her right leg a few months ago. This bump showed up last year probably. I'm not quite sure what it is its a bit squishy.

Here's the link to a thread I made about this lump a few months ago.
Thread 'Old hen with lump on the right of her hock? Any help is appreciated' https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...-of-her-hock-any-help-is-appreciated.1534207/

 

[dawg53]

Since Pearl is 8 years old, another possibility is gout. I'm kind of leaning more towards gout than a sprained/strained ligament or tendon.
I've dealt with sprained ligaments or tendons and never once did i ever see any swelling. On the other hand with gout, there is visible swelling.

 

[AngelinaThePekin8]

So Pearl has been in the breezeway since I last posted, I kept her in the playpen for a week or more and eventually she was able to walk a little better so I let her roam the small area of the breezeway that I gave her and the 3 other hens access to. A few weeks after that she was walking almost normal sometimes, at feeding time the rooster would get in and get on her I tried preventing that as much as possible, she wouldn't seem to be any worse after he got to her though she I never worried too much. With all the artic wind or whatever it was I let all my birds in the breezeway for a few hours on one of the days, all of the chickens stayed in for a day or two the weather didn't seem much worse than what we usually get here though.
When all of my ducks the two guineas and all of the chickens were in the breezeway Pearl was able to go wherever she wanted in the area where they all were at she never seemed any worse with whatever pushing her around the other birds did to her not much of that happened as far as im aware.
After all that really strong wind and cold mostly left I let everyone out besides Pearl and the three old hens who I have in with her as company.
She was walking around quit a bit she could stand for however long she wanted, her feet didn't look to bad and she was preening her self more often again which wasn't doing very much preening after she first started limping.
She was eating her food well and drinking plenty she was even pooping okay enough I feel like I didn't pay enough attention to that though.

Yesterday I went to my older sisters house and we didn't get back till about 9:00 pm. I went to put everyone up like I do every night after I got the two ducks out of the coop and in their kennel (I put them in their so my oldest pekin won't get bullied and so there's more space) Pearl was the last bird I needed to move for that night (she was just outside the playpen door) I tried to grab her like I normally do when I have to move her (I put my hands under her feet and let her stand kind of on my fingers Idk how else to describe it) and she started clucking and kind of freaking out, I then noticed that she had some clear not smelly liquid coming out of her mouth. Her crop was basically empty. I sat with her for awhile holding her keel higher than her crop, one of my younger sisters opened the front door and that seemed to have to have startled Pearl cause she lunged herself away from me flapping her wings and clucking.

She kept on doing that for a while stopping for a little bit and then she would start flapping and trying to walk clucking everytime she moved her legs. I decided to put her in the kennel all by herself since she had launched herself in their causing the two ducks to leave. I watched for a while longer after I closed the kennel door and she calmed down a little more, I decided she would probably keep doing that if I stayed out there so I went inside hoping she would get better in the morning.
Today she was keeping her crop high and her head high still sitting down. She is still breathing or acting like the liquid is still in her throat or something causing her to struggle to breath a little bit.

I will get pictures of her after I have posted this
I hope this post was easy to read and understand. Thank you for any help

 

[AngelinaThePekin8]

Pearl is still doing what she was earlier today when I went out to feed them.
Hopefully the pictures I took are good enough.

I think her feet have seemed really stiff ever since her sprain or whatever truly happened to her. I don't have baby aspirin so I was never able to give her any when she feeling better than, she is today. I probably won't be able to do much for her crop or anything else really. I have looked up quite a few different ways to euthanize but I don't think I'll ever be able to do any fo those things when it comes down to it.

The last time I checked up on her (when I got the pictures) it was around 10:30-40 am.