I found a young pullet sitting on the ground outside of her pen. When I reached down to catch her and put her back I noticed something wasn’t right with her leg. When I caught her it was painfully obvious that it was broken. It looks like she caught it in the fence when she was going over.
Rather than just put her down we decided to try and reset it. We took a popsicle stick and made a splint out of it.
After a week she is doing well. She has started getting up and moving around. She isn’t using the leg or at least I haven’t seen it. That’s probably a good thing. I did put one stick on the front and the other on the back just in case she did try to use the leg. I wanted to make sure it was well supported in the most likely way it might have pressure applied. It’s too soon to tell but it looks like we have saved another of our critters from an early demise.