Young hen with injured leg - need advice please

My husband and daughter brought home some new chickens yesterday afternoon and when we took one of them out and sat it down, it just sat there and looked at us, panting.  My son picked her up and inspected her a little closer and she finally did get up and try to hop on one foot to get away from another hen who was trying to "meet" her.  My husband said that they were all fine when they were loaded up to come home, so we are thinking that maybe she got injured when she was netted right before going into the cage as there were LOTS of chickens in the group and that could have happened and he just didn't notice it??  

 

We put her in a stall in the barn last night with a younger sweet bird of the same breed that also came from that farm yesterday to keep her company.  I didn't want to traumatize her any worse last night so we didn't really inspect her too closely.  So we are going out to look and see if we can tell more about the problem this morning.  For the most part, she just sits and also keeps her wing slightly out on the side with the injured leg to sort of help her balance I suppose.  Her eyes are bright and she is very alert.  

 

I guess what I would like to know is what I can do for her to help her heal quickly from this --- IF she is going to heal...   Is it possible to heal from a broken leg?  Or could it just be a sprain that would cause her to not put it down at all?   

 

Any advice I can get would be much appreciated.  My kids will be very attached to her quickly as she will just sit in your lap for petting a lot more than the others right now......

 

~Shannon

I went out and inspected her injuries and took a couple of photos in hopes that someone might have some idea as to the cause or help with a cure! Her little foot and leg are swollen today.  No other signs of injury like a cut or anything.  She let me carefully pull her let out to inspect it without it seeming to cause her any pain, but being new to chickens, I don't know chicken behavior well enough to know if I could have been hurting her or not.  I held feed and water up to her and she ate and drank some.  She even stood up and hopped back over to the water for more after I left the stall.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I feel so dumb...what kind of antibiotics?  And is it given orally or an injection?  If it were a horse, dog, cat or goat, I would know this, but I'm soooo new to chickens.  Need to go research this!   

 

Her leg is about the same tonight.  Still swollen about this same amount.  She is eating and drinking good and still has bright eyes...just won't put her foot down to walk.  I'm going to try another cold wrap when I go out to feed.

I will have to look up a picture of bumble foot. I don't see anything on her foot that looks like a black scab, but then again I'm not really sure what I'm looking for.

In the meantime, can someone help me with what kind of antibiotics to give her? Her foot is still swollen today. is it something I get at the feed store?