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I think a lot of people think B 12 is 12 different B vitamins, but it only has B 12. B complex has 8 B vitamins, and sometimes vitamin C is added. Here is a list of the B vitamins in B complex. In chickens with leg problems, riboflavin (B 2) is important.

B12 is not B complex. Many B complex tablets also have vitamin C. B Complex has riboflavin which is the important one for leg health in chickens. NutriDrench also has riboflavin.

You can give 1/2 tablet daily, crushed into her feed since B complex is seldom overdosed. Hopefully it is a vitamin deficiency, and you will see some improvement in a few days, but those usually affect both legs. Here is a good article to read about riboflavin deficiency...

Those symptoms of limping, dragging a leg, walking on knuckle or curled under toes, can be symptoms of Mareks disease or an injury to the leg affecting the nerve. Mareks usually affects young chickens in their first year, but I really hope it is not that. I would treat her with B complex...