Chicken with broken toe. Help!

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Any suggestions as to what I should do? I noticed it this morning. My girl is 6 months old, still laying. I picked her up and although she was reluctant to let me touch it, it didn’t feel hot and the skin isn’t broken. She’s still walking ok, only a slight limp, but it looks awful and just drags behind her.

Online searches suggest I should try and splint it. I’m worried if I do this they’ll all start pecking at her, or she’ll peck it and make it worse.

My local vet is ok but not overly chicken confidant. I’ll take her if I have to though. Any suggestions?

We have successfully splinted a birds fracture before but yesterday ended up at emergency vet having X-rays and then was pts. Bones hurt, she will be in pain. Our vet was unwilling to provide pain killers without X-ray and glad they did as evident it would never have healed (I saw X-ray and is my profession).
Fortunately vet took pity on her/us as really didn't charge us much. For us, ethically, the only options were to pull her neck or see the vet. Sadly amounted to the same in the end.

Sorry, different birds to be clear!