- Jun 13, 2011
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1) What type of bird , age and weight: A year old? A red hen, not sure what breed or weight.
2) What is the behavior, exactly: Serious limping, lies down a lot. Eating, drinking and pooping though. And pretty alert.
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms: Ages. A couple of months maybe?
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms: No, the other hen seems fine.
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma: No, though some of her feathers seem a bit threadbare.
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation: I have no idea.
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all: Hard little brown long round pellets (not sure what they're called), and then the treats I bring her (strawberries, grapes, raisins, white bread and peanuts). She drinks water.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.: Fine, I think. I'm not sure what it's supposed to look like?
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far: Nothing, just lots of treats and petting. I don't know where to start!
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet: I want to treat her myself because she doesn't actually belong to me, and I'm not sure her owners would be okay with taking her to the vet.
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help. Below.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use: Woodchip? They have an indoor coop and an outside run.
I posted on this a couple of days ago, but I had just joined the site, didn't know what I was doing and had no pictures. A couple of people suggested it might be scaly leg mites, but I looked all around the coop today and examined her leg and the legs of the other chicken... and I'm not sure. I don't see any evidence of leg mites, but leg mites is the only thing it seems to be? I took some photos to show how bad it is.
And here's her coopmate, happy and healthy, with no sign of leg issues:
2) What is the behavior, exactly: Serious limping, lies down a lot. Eating, drinking and pooping though. And pretty alert.
3) How long has the bird been exhibiting symptoms: Ages. A couple of months maybe?
4) Are other birds exhibiting the same symptoms: No, the other hen seems fine.
5) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma: No, though some of her feathers seem a bit threadbare.
6) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation: I have no idea.
7) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all: Hard little brown long round pellets (not sure what they're called), and then the treats I bring her (strawberries, grapes, raisins, white bread and peanuts). She drinks water.
8) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.: Fine, I think. I'm not sure what it's supposed to look like?
9) What has been the treatment you have administered so far: Nothing, just lots of treats and petting. I don't know where to start!
10 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet: I want to treat her myself because she doesn't actually belong to me, and I'm not sure her owners would be okay with taking her to the vet.
11) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help. Below.
12) Describe the housing/bedding in use: Woodchip? They have an indoor coop and an outside run.
I posted on this a couple of days ago, but I had just joined the site, didn't know what I was doing and had no pictures. A couple of people suggested it might be scaly leg mites, but I looked all around the coop today and examined her leg and the legs of the other chicken... and I'm not sure. I don't see any evidence of leg mites, but leg mites is the only thing it seems to be? I took some photos to show how bad it is.
And here's her coopmate, happy and healthy, with no sign of leg issues:
