Chicken antibiotics

[azygous]

Respiratory infection symptoms are runny eyes, sneezing, coughing, mild to severe. The synoviae is an aggravated feature of the respiratory disease.

But now that you mentioned removing the bedding to treat the coop, that's the most likely cause of this swelling and pain when walking.

Cardboard isn't concrete but it doesn't cushion feet when landing on it. If you need to postpone installing new bedding, put down some kind of padding for the chickens to land on, such as pieces of foam mattress. Imagine you have to jump off a truck tailgate onto the ground in bare feet. How much cushioning would you need so it wouldn't hurt your bare feet to land on it? You might also consider lowering the perch. I have two roosters that I've had to lower their perch to within ten inches of the floor due to injuries. Any heavy breed chicken will risk feet and leg injuries with high perches.

You can hasten the healing of her feet with a few days of Epsom salt soaks and let her sleep somewhere that doesn't require hopping down onto a hard surface.

One time I had five pullets all show up with bumblefoot. It was because of this exact situation - high perch, no cushioning on the floor beneath. All recovered in a month after I lowered the perch.

 

[dawg53]

Agreed. I've lowered roosts down to 5 inches especially for my Light Brahma's and roosters.
I didnt see any redness on the footpads which would indicate inflammation due to infection.

 

[Brankenflowery]

are you sure the chicken needs antibiotics? what is the diagnoses? the reason they arent readily available is because people use them too much when they arent needed and have contributed to the development of superbugs

Superbugs actually originate from heal care and large livestock systems where although they treat the bird the bacteria is still present in the dirty environment and poor management. Not usually from backyard poultry. I have a degreee in medicine and animal science. So it is okay and could not hurt if administered properly. I’m about to start a round of antibiotic cause my birds caught mycoplasmosis. So instead of giving up on them. I’m closing my flock and treating them so they can become healthy again. It’s also important to change what medications you use. I guess some people might not be cautious enough to implement the proper treatment but trust me. The blame is on big ag and poor medical sterilization techniques as to why we get resistant bugs but it is also natural battle of evolution.