Help! Injured foot on Bantam chick

[mother_hen9]

We just picked up four new chicks from Family Farm and Home on Sunday. I noticed yesterday something was weird on the foot of one of the bantams we picked up but our new chicks are very skittish and run the minute we reach for them. I didn’t want to stress them out more so I waited to get them at a better time today. Now today I think I saw blood in the brooder but I can’t really tell with the pellets we have in there. I was able to pick her up today and I tried my best to get a photo of it one handed. We are fairly new to owning chicks, so I’m not really sure what to do and this is my first time owning bantams.

 

[mother_hen9]

We just picked up four new chicks from Family Farm and Home on Sunday. I noticed yesterday something was weird on the foot of one of the bantams we picked up but our new chicks are very skittish and run the minute we reach for them. I didn’t want to stress them out more so I waited to get them at a better time today. Now today I think I saw blood in the brooder but I can’t really tell with the pellets we have in there. I was able to pick her up today and I tried my best to get a photo of it one handed. We are fairly new to owning chicks, so I’m not really sure what to do and this is my first time owning bantams.

I also want to add that the chick is not whining and behaving fine. We purchased this group of chicks older instead of getting day old chicks because we wanted to get them in the coop sooner with the current chicks we have out there. They are still skittish when we reach in the brooder and tend to jump around each other so I wasn’t sure if this happened one of those times. Any advice would be appreciated!

 

[orelsi]

Could be from jumping around, could be stress which makes them pull their own feathers or it could be an aggressive chick. It's not a reason for concern unless it becomes regular or gets worse. I'd monitor them to see if the reason can be gleaned. You can put some antibiotic ointment on it to make sure nothing gets infected. It's not mandatory, but it can't hurt and it will calm you down by making sure infection risk is mitigated.

 

[mother_hen9]

Could be from jumping around, could be stress which makes them pull their own feathers or it could be an aggressive chick. It's not a reason for concern unless it becomes regular or gets worse. I'd monitor them to see if the reason can be gleaned. You can put some antibiotic ointment on it to make sure nothing gets infected. It's not mandatory, but it can't hurt and it will calm you down by making sure infection risk is mitigated.

Thank you so much! The more I think about it, I’m almost thinking we picked it up this way. Because I remember thinking the foot looked weird but again I’d never owned a bantam before so I was uncertain. I will keep monitoring it!