Injured leg

[chrismahon]

Page 181 of Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens shows a chicken sling designed to keep the weight off the broken leg while it heals. Basically its a box with a cloth cover and two leg holes with a feeder and drinker at the front. How you stop the bird flying out though I don't know?

 

[dinosaw]

Make the box small enough and the lid low enough?, loosely bandage around the chickens body to constrict flapping?

 

[chickenfan]

I think they know what to do and put any weight on the broken leg anyway whilst its healing.