Injured Leg - A Success Story

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I've got a silkie with almost identical symptoms. She's had the foot held up and at an odd angle for quite a while. I've been keeping her inside in a small dog kennel, and recently moved her to a rabbit cage that is easier to keep clean. I think I will try forcing some physical therapy like you did with yours.

Mine seems to eat and drink plenty, as if nothing's wrong--simply cannot put pressure on that one leg. I'm not a vet, or expert by any means, but I didn't see or feel anything wrong with it. I'm at a loss...

Here's a rough photo of her as of today



The photo comes out sideways no matter what I do. It's not sideways in it's original file on my PC, but the photo uploader on forums decides it wants to be sideways, apologies.
 
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I have a ? Sorry if it seems dense, what type of vitamins are you giving your injured chickens? I have a SLW right now with an injured leg, she can walk around but limps badly. I only have electrolytes on hand. Thanks in advance for your replies. The only way to learn is to ask.
 
crazyfeathers said:
I have a ? Sorry if it seems dense, what type of vitamins are you giving your injured chickens? I have a SLW right now with an injured leg, she can walk around but limps badly. I only have electrolytes on hand. Thanks in advance for your replies. The only way to learn is to ask.
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The key to healing leg injuries(which are very common in chickens,especially large breeds)is rest and pain medication to control swelling/pain.

I currently have a very large orpington rooster with a leg injury. What i am doing for him is,twice a day he gets an epsom salt soak,helps with swelling,and aspirin for pain/swelling. I have him in a cage in my house to limit his mobility. I do not give vitamins b/c he does not need any extra vitamins in his diet. If i suspected he had a vitamin deficiency,then he would receive vitamins. Combination of aspirin/soaks and limited mobility is helping,we are on day 3 and he is now able to stand on leg,but still flops around using his wing for balance,previously he could not put any weight on his leg. I do not expect to see much improvement for at least another couple of weeks. You can wrap the injury if you know where it is,i had his leg wrapped for a couple of days,but have now removed wrapping.

Make sure your girl eats/drinks as she should. My boy is getting a little too use to being pampered and expects me to hand feed him,he does eat on his own,but thinks hand feeding is so much better and just loves to sit on my knee and eat bananas rolled in feed/scratch.
 
ten chicks said:
The key to healing leg injuries(which are very common in chickens,especially large breeds)is rest and pain medication to control swelling/pain.

I currently have a very large orpington rooster with a leg injury. What i am doing for him is,twice a day he gets an epsom salt soak,helps with swelling,and aspirin for pain/swelling. I have him in a cage in my house to limit his mobility. I do not give vitamins b/c he does not need any extra vitamins in his diet. If i suspected he had a vitamin deficiency,then he would receive vitamins. Combination of aspirin/soaks and limited mobility is helping,we are on day 3 and he is now able to stand on leg,but still flops around using his wing for balance,previously he could not put any weight on his leg. I do not expect to see much improvement for at least another couple of weeks. You can wrap the injury if you know where it is,i had his leg wrapped for a couple of days,but have now removed wrapping. 

Make sure your girl eats/drinks as she should. My boy is getting a little too use to being pampered and expects me to hand feed him,he does eat on his own,but thinks hand feeding is so much better and just loves to sit on my knee and eat bananas rolled in feed/scratch.
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Never thought to use aspirin. How are you dosing--and how much?

My silkie is small, I can't imagine using much aspirin for her. She's been inside in a cage for weeks and weeks. She's made some process but I'm not really sure what to do at this point.
 
I have given aspirin to my silkie roo for a head injury(concussion). Dose for aspirin either a low dose(81mg) or a reg(325mg)is 25mg per lb of body weight.
Crush and place in water or sprinkle over feed or give orally. For my silkie i gave his in water as i was tube feeding him. My rooster that i am currently treating for a sprained leg,i give his orally either wrapped in cheese/bread/banana/meat.


Is your silkie still holding her leg at a odd angle or is she able to stand on leg? She may have/had a fracture or even a dislocated hock/achilles tendon.
 
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ten chicks said:
I have given aspirin to my silkie roo for a head injury(concussion). Dose for aspirin either a low dose(81mg) or a reg(325mg)is 25mg per lb of body weight.
Crush and place in water or sprinkle over feed or give orally. For my silkie i gave his in water as i was tube feeding him. My rooster that i am currently treating for a sprained leg,i give his orally either wrapped in cheese/bread/banana/meat.


Is your silkie still holding her leg at a odd angle or is she able to stand on leg? She may have/had a fracture or even a dislocated hock/achilles tendon.
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Yes she's still holding it at the odd angle. The day it happened (or the morning I noticed it) I scooped her out of the coop and brought her inside. This was probably 6 weeks ago now. It does seem to have made limited progress (at first she wouldn't even attempt weight on it--and held it very high). Now she seems to hold the leg just off the ground, but at an odd angle--and only rare puts weight on it. I've visually inspected the leg countless times, and felt all over to see if I could find a fracture/wound but nothing was evident to my untrained eye.

Ideas? I'm open to suggestion...

Will see if I have a recent photo here in my phone. I don't, the only photo I've got recently is from last week. Sorry--it's orientation is off because of the TapAtalk uploader. It's a few posts above this one.
 
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Look up some photos of a dislocated hock/achilles tendon,see if they resemble how her leg is held. Unfortunately after this length of time probably not much can be done. Have you tried splinting leg just to see if bracing it makes a difference?
 
At least now I know how my SLW hurt her leg. My two older girls "Grrtrude and Big Red" roost on the stairs leading to the haymow and now the 2 SLW pullets have decided it's a great roost and try to squeeze on the same step as the older girls and as a result the silver laced fell to the ground from about 5 feet. I do have hay scattered on the floor below the stairs but she still injured her leg. She is eating and drinking well and I have her resting in a small pen. My hubby seen it happen last night so this must have happened more than one time.
 

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