Chicken with an injured leg

[perke]

I have a chick that I'm assuming hurt her leg when a roosting bar somehow fell. Her gift leg was swollen and red for a day. We felt everywhere for a break or fracture but didn't feel anything. It's now a week later, and there is no more redness or swelling but she's still limping really bad. I put her in our "infirmary" and added some riboflavin and other vitamins to her water. I have noticed that now that she's in the infirmary she's not walking at all. Kinda plops down on the food dish and reaches for the water. Is there something else I should be doing or giving her? Is there a different diagnosis that I could be missing? A completely worse diagnosis I didn't even think of? Or I'm doing the right thing and it takes time? Which I read it can take like 2 weeks for a bone to heal with chickens. Thank you!

 

[WindingRoad]

I have a chick that I'm assuming hurt her leg when a roosting bar somehow fell. Her gift leg was swollen and red for a day. We felt everywhere for a break or fracture but didn't feel anything. It's now a week later, and there is no more redness or swelling but she's still limping really bad. I put her in our "infirmary" and added some riboflavin and other vitamins to her water. I have noticed that now that she's in the infirmary she's not walking at all. Kinda plops down on the food dish and reaches for the water. Is there something else I should be doing or giving her? Is there a different diagnosis that I could be missing? A completely worse diagnosis I didn't even think of? Or I'm doing the right thing and it takes time? Which I read it can take like 2 weeks for a bone to heal with chickens. Thank you!

I had a year old White Leghorn who caught her foot and leg in a wire dog cage. Could not stand up at all. Just laid under the roosts. I would pick her up, and feed her in a nest box to keep the others away. Took 2 weeks for her to start walking. Then she started getting up on the low roost. I took her down the first few nights as I didn't want her to reinsure that leg jumping down in the morning. This happened on August 11th . She has been back in with the flock since the middle of September. She'll get better. Just make sure she has access to clean water and her feed. Good luck

 

[LaFleche]

Has she been laying before the accident? And if so, does she still?