My hen is recovering well from her frostbite and injuries from getting stuck in a fence!

I posted about this situation 3 weeks ago, she was stuck in a fence by my compost pile for long enough to get frostbite and dislocated one of her legs! I was worried that we might have to kill her if she didn’t regain use of the leg, but she is a sweet girl and I wanted to give her a chance to heal! As she regained mobility she was still walking really crooked so I was worried tha she would be too weak to go back with the flock and I’d have to find her a new home! But this week she’s been doing so much better than I expected! She is holding the leg mostly normally now instead of having it angled in! And she’s got a lot of energy! You can see the injured leg in the first picture, it’s pealing because of th frostbite she got in that foot, so I’m going to wait a bit longer and hope that it heals a bit better before she goes back out! I’m worried that it’s still too cold and that the frostbite would get worse if I let her out in the snow!

U noticed tha she was looking really disheveled and not grooming herself much so I got a bin and filled it with dirt from my snakes tank. I hoped that she would dirt bathe and that would trigger some more intense grooming behavior so she could get herself looking healthy again! The last couple days I’ve been giving her an opportunity to stretch her legs and access the dirt! Today she was eager to get out of her rehab cage, so I let her out and put the dirt bin down in the sun, and she hoped right in!!! She’s having the time of her fucking life right now! She’s been in it for like half an hour and is getting dirt all over my kitchen, but I’m just so glad that she’s feeling well enough to do normal chicken thighs again!!!