TheAmazingBailey
Hatching
- Nov 17, 2020
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Hello! I’m hoping this is the right place to post this..
My aunt recently got two new hens (silver Laced Wyandottes I think, unsure of their age), however recently we noticed that one of them has a growth type thing on her leg and it has grown quickly. It appears to be affecting how she’s walking as she lifts her legs up really high when walking unlike our other three and none of them have any symptoms. She appears to be the same weight as the others and from what I’ve seen she’s eating and drinking normally.
We’ve cleaned their coop and haven’t found any mites, I don’t know if it matters but she uses wood wool as their bedding. I believe my aunt may have put vegetable oil on her legs once after googling it but I don’t think she does it regularly.
The vets near us aren’t great with animals other than ‘usual’ pets and covid has made it a bit hard to get in to see our usual one up the coast unfortunately, so in the meantime we were wondering if anyone has any ideas what it may be and possibly how to treat it? Sorry if I haven’t given enough information - I’m pretty new to this
thanks!
Here are the photos, first few are today and the last one is when we first noticed it. I did wonder if it may be scaly leg mite but as I said I didn’t see anything when I cleaned out the coop.
My aunt recently got two new hens (silver Laced Wyandottes I think, unsure of their age), however recently we noticed that one of them has a growth type thing on her leg and it has grown quickly. It appears to be affecting how she’s walking as she lifts her legs up really high when walking unlike our other three and none of them have any symptoms. She appears to be the same weight as the others and from what I’ve seen she’s eating and drinking normally.
We’ve cleaned their coop and haven’t found any mites, I don’t know if it matters but she uses wood wool as their bedding. I believe my aunt may have put vegetable oil on her legs once after googling it but I don’t think she does it regularly.
The vets near us aren’t great with animals other than ‘usual’ pets and covid has made it a bit hard to get in to see our usual one up the coast unfortunately, so in the meantime we were wondering if anyone has any ideas what it may be and possibly how to treat it? Sorry if I haven’t given enough information - I’m pretty new to this
thanks!
Here are the photos, first few are today and the last one is when we first noticed it. I did wonder if it may be scaly leg mite but as I said I didn’t see anything when I cleaned out the coop.