One of my hens is always getting huge mud balls on her claws. Always on the same claws, on the same foot. It takes me on average an hour a week to keep her from getting severly disabled by them - if I don't spend time soaking and cracking off the huge bone dry mud balls, she is left unable to move very far. None of the others get it. Quite honestly, I am sick and tired of it (this winter had been awful for mud too) and I have given serious thought to whether there is any point keeping her, whether the time has come to so the right thing by her as she has no quality of life dragging her heavy mud-balled foot around.
Anyone have experience of this, and if so what did you do long term?
Can anyone explain why she is the only one getting these stupid mud balls??
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WelliesAndPyjamas · 14/02/2016 23:01
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