Quote Originally Posted by wolfy-hound View Post
Dislocated, you may be able to re-locate the leg by pulling slowly and twisting it back into place. If it's broken... ehhh... maybe-no.
Dying naturally of infection or wasting away would not be a nice death, so I wish the best for it.
If we wouldn't have found it then it would have died alone in the hay barn on its own, now that its with us I'm at least giving it pain medication. I have no experience with killing chickens, therefore, I will not do it. No one else in my family has the experience either, letting it die a natural death in my opinion (with the help of some pain medication) would be far better than someone in this household awkwardly trying to break the poor things neck - if you don't know what you're doing you can cause the animal to suffer a horrible death, even if it is short.

I had read that if there was a break it would effect the circulation of blood getting to the limb, and the limb would most likely be cold. The chickens injured leg is warm and I can't see any visible break so I do think that it probably is a dislocation - when my mom held the chicken the limb hung down. I wouldn't know the first thing about getting a dislocated limb back in place, I feel like I would just cause it more pain and end up doing more damage.