Hen with curled feet can't walk, help!

Most chickens can swallow a human calcium with vitamin D tablet 300-600 mg if you open the beak and put it in. With B complex tablets crush 1/4 or 1/2 tablet into a small bit of food. Egg, cream cheese, peanut butter, and liverwurst are good things to mix in. Here is a video of giving a tablet:

 
Agree with @Eggcessive - there could be different causes, but B2 deficiency is easy to treat.
Give human B complex from the pharmacy. Don’t worry too much about dose as it is very safe. If you can find capsules you can open them up and sprinkle them in mash. All you chickens will enjoy it - turns the mash yellow which mine at least approve of.
You will have to keep it up for a while, possibly several weeks.
Hope it works out.
Thank you!!!
 
Hi, I have a 1 1/2-year-old easter egger. She was fine all day and this evening I noticed she wasn't in the coop. I found her in the run and not moving, kind of hunched. When I put her in the coop she couldn't walk. I noticed that her feet were curled up. I took her in and separated her from the rest of the girls. Her comb is red, eyes look good, she just is panting, wings out and not walking because of her curled toes. She ate some scrambled egg and I have given her some water. I'm not sure what is happening to her. All the other hens are fine. Please help if you can, I dont want to lose her.
My Millie has the same thing! 😭
 

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