Hi everyone, I have an 8 week old orpington rooster chick with swelling of the hock and what feels like tendon sheath. He also has poor feathering, retained feather sheaths and a few bare patches. Also some very mild sneezing. He is also about 30g lighter than his sister who is the same age. I am suspecting that he could have reovirus with complications from Mycoplasma synoviae. I have separated him from the others and he is currently on metacam oral twice daily as well as tylan intramuscular injections twice daily. I have been treating him for approx 4 days so far but he had been on just metacam before when I thought that he just had viral arthritis. He has done reasonably well and from being recumbent a few days ago he can now walk and run, although he is slightly off balance and his right leg (which has the swollen hock) is rotated slightly inwards, I heard this can happen due to altered weight bearing during growth. He seems to have a good quality of life but I want to know longer term prognosis as I have not managed a similar case before. If he stays as he is after his medications are finished then I would be happy enough, but just want to know if anyone has experienced total resolution of this kind of lameness? Really want to avoid culling if I can. I made the mistake of getting extremely attached to him!