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Broken back toe?
My chicken has been limping lately so we took her to the vet. It's definitely not bumblefoot, but the vet gave us some thing to prevent it just for incase, but couldn't find what's wrong. Yesterday I was looking at her foot and I saw her back toe looks misformed. I very gently touched it and moved it sideways and that made it look like there's a cut. Like a piece of thin rope or something went around her toe and it's cutting her, but there isn't any blood. She already lost her other back toe's tip to something similar and now she only has a tiny stump on her other foot. Her toe is definitely pointing into the wrong direction compared to my other chickens. Does anyone maybe know what I can do? Should I just leave it?
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Birds are remarkably good at recovering from losing toes and even feet. Their blood flow stops much sooner than ours would and they don't bleed out easily. Just keep an eye on it and keep it clean in case flies try to lay their eggs in the wound.
Okay, thank you!