Category: henrietta

Henrietta, the reluctant rooster.

Soooo…Henrietta has the crooked leg which we’ve mentioned has not kept her/him down at all~! This past two weeks brought major redness out in his comb/wattles – that, the cock-a-doodle-doo’ing and the mounting of hens for chicken/rooster happy time has confirmed. Indeed. Henrietta is a boy. #2 in the Rooster…

Henrietta

Okay, she does look the most likely to be voted a roo…she’s also the one with the crooked leg, but that doesn’t hold her back one bit!

Henrietta, she is a special one

Henrietta has gotten extra attention since a week or so old. We noticed she walked a bit funny, and had a crooked leg (splayed leg?) or just a twisted leg injury? We did attempt the rubber band straightening, but didn’t like having to wrap her leg with something (she was…

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Henrietta the Rhode Island Red

One of our chicks, Henrietta, showed some signs of a crooked leg. We attempted a rubber band fix we found online, but after a day of tolerating the bands, we took it off to find she can get around just fine. She’s easy to spot though, since she has a…