Foot/leg injury in 7 day old chick *update**insect bite?**

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

This morning while doing a pasty butt check I found a chick in the brooder hopping on one foot. It's left foot pad is swollen, no visible injury (though my first thought was bumblefoot). Upon further inspection I found a scrape on the front of its leg.

So, I suspect it was somehow injured and then developed an infection. Can I give antibiotics to a chick this small? I'll clean the wound (though the injury seems so insignificant it seems odd to call it a 'wound'), cover with antibiotic ointemnt (without painkiller) and wrap in a bandaid.

So, I used a q-tip and peroxide to clean what I thought was a scrape or peck, but what it really looks like is two teeny punctures next to one another. Could it be a spider bite? They did have some outside time on the grass yesterday. I don't think we have human-poisonous spiders around (well not many) but could a spider bite do this to a chick?


Any other suggestions?

Here are some bad photos taken w/the webcam:

 

[faykokoWV]

I have no idea. you may want to try to get some better pictures. If it were my chick I would treat it like any other injury since you don't really know what caused it. keep it clean and dry and give her some antibiotics.

 

[One Acre Wonder Farm]

Thanks for responding Faykoko! I would takebetter pics but there is not much to see

Two pin prick type punctures and swelling below. I cleaned it, put bacitracin on I and a bandaid around the leg.

I am really hoping it is an insect bite that it will (hopefully) quickly recover from!