We have a rooster who has been battling MS for some time...a few months. Currently we are treating him with Lincomycin for the second time, and this time it seems to be doing him some good. Yes, he has had the classic swollen joints and foot pads, but he started out the same as her...nothing...
No the foot joint itself isn't swollen. In fact there doesn't seem to be any swelling in the joints at all. Just a lot of pain, and the weird looking lump or scale or whatever the heck it is. and some heat in the foot. It is her left foot though.
Our hen Amaryllis turned up lame last winter, and we could see nothing wrong with her leg or foot. We confined her to hospital pen and dipped her leg in Permethrin, then later tried Denagard, and finally Baytril. After 6 weeks in hospital pen, the last 9 days of which she was on Baytril,she...