This summer my pit bull shot out the front door--turned around at end of driveway to come back-----I have a little black polish hen who is blind who was sitting on a fencepost----apparently she smelled the dog and flew into another fencepost----broke her little leg. We put her in a big cage for a few days then my husband let her out--tooo soon-----so put her back in cage for another week then transferred her to garden ---my daughter and I decided she needed a splint on her leg so we broke a popsicle stick and taped it on with packing tape (only thing I could find) --well then her little foot was drawing up into a claw so one day I went out and my daughter had cut a little "brace" out of a piece of cardboard and taped it to the bottom of her foot--with blue painting tape---she wanted to take her to the vet and I said "he will tell us to put her in the stewpot!" That little chicken doesn't even limp!!!