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UPDATE: I had a few people telling me to leave him be and just return him. I spent a lot of time looking into frost bite injuries (I couldn’t find anything about traumatic injuries where limbs slowly fell off). He still has his foot and we did leave it be until Saturday. So it started to smell...

UPDATE: We still have no idea if the bird (now named Hester) is a hen or a rooster. Hester is in between 5-7 months old. Exhibiting both hen and rooster traits. Anyways, on to the leg issue. We still aren’t positive, but we do believe Hester has spasticity in their right thigh. The muscle has...

Yeah, I’m honestly sort of thinking this bird is just living in both genders right now. So supposedly she lays eggs and was even broody months back. Yet she has big spurs, wattles, and comb. Also crows every now and again. I had a hen like this once, chickens never cease to surprise me. UPDATE...

Both are separate from my chickens. I didn’t see lice or mites, nor worms in their poop, however I’m gonna treat them just in case out of caution. Not that I’m letting them join my flock. I’m not super concerned about Mareks has sadly about 7 years ago I lost half my folk to it. So they have all...

Her scales are all smooth, not raised. I did check her feet cause I was thinking it could be Bumble foot. I didn’t see anything, but I didn’t check well between the toes so I will definitely do that again💕

No swelling that I noticed. Everything seemed really normal. If anything the good leg was the one that had an old-ish abrasion. I can look again more closely tonight and let you know. There is a possibility she is trying to mimic the rooster she is with right now. He foot got ran over and he...

This hen was also from the same people as the rooster on my previous thread. So I know next to nothing about what could have happened to her, though they do have a chicken who has been hit by a car. Anyways, nothing seems wrong when I look at the leg. No cuts, lumps, or skin discoloration. It...

I have antibiotics, a few kinds and can buy other ones if need be for the occasion. I have never done amputation on a chicken, only sheep tails. I have looked into how to do it on a chicken, I was just hoping for the most about of info as possible. His foot seems sort of infected, as it was...

Today my best friend gave me a rooster who seems to need his foot amputated. My best friend visited his girlfriend’s grandparents and found that one of their roosters had been fit by a car a few weeks back. His foot was barely attached, looked nasty, and seemed dead. The grandparents didn’t plan...

Update: We did cut it open awhile back. She didn’t bleed or seem in pain since it was super thin skin. It was just fat. We did remove it since we already cut it open. Then cleaned it and sent her back to the coop. She’s back to raising hell for our other birds, so I’m not to worried about this...

Thanks, but it’s not a scab at all actually. The skin is soft and smooth there. The yellow lump is something under the skin actually. So far we are thinking maybe pus because of the redness, but maybe just fat.

We do wear masks and gloves since it’s not good to breath. I don’t really know why you brought up it’s a group 3 carcinogen since that means classifiable as to it’s carcinogenicity in humans (no evidence it causes cancer). As only as we wear masks and gloves when putting it in the coop it’s fine...

I don’t know, maybe? I do have birds with breast blisters. She even has some (you can kind of see them in the picture). She is old and sleeps in the nest boxes because they are lower to the ground. So can’t really help with roosts for her. I don’t really think it’s a blister because the skin is...

Oh- sorry. Yeah, no idea what animals are in Maryland. So yeah, maybe this was helpful, maybe not😅

Maybe, she does have blisters but this is raised and under her skin. The skin is fine, but there is a yellow mass under it is all.