So funny thing happened the other day, we were looking for which Chicken on the roost had bumblefoot so we were picking up the chickens to look at their feet, one of them must have gotten scared because a egg fell onto the ground. But the weird thing is it has no shell! Just that film that...
It’s hard to tell without seeing it in person but it looks like a rooster, another way that might help is our chicks who turn out to be roosters usually have a redder cone.
Interesting, I’ve heard about the the colored Easter chicks and it makes me sick, I can’t believe someone would be so flippant with the life of an animal.
I can see why you thought it might be MS, it does look like some of the pictures I’ve seen online, luckily though I’m 99% sure it’s not since the rest of the flock is fine and it’s just that spot on the foot. It was a really good suggestion though, I didn’t even think of that!
I don’t think it’s MS, no other parts of her body are swelling. Her one foot is the only part swollen, and her legs not affected. Also, I believe MS is contagious and none of our other chickens have shown any signs of swelling whatsoever.
We currently have 12 chickens living in our backyard farm in Indiana, all are named after first ladies:
Martha Washington (Rhode Island White), Abigail Adams (Ameraucana), Louisa Adams (Rhode Island Red), Jackie Kennedy (Barnevelder), Eleanor Roosevelt (Mixed sister of Dolly), Dolly Madison...
Please please offer any advice you can, one of our chickens has a really bad swollen foot and it has almost all the signs of bumble foot. There is no plug on the bottom, we've been soaking it in epson salts and spraying colloidal silver and it seemed to be getting slightly but we tried to do...