Is this bruising? Not an emergency

[Kris5902]

on April 15th one of the farm chickens was dropped hard by a child in the coop, she was limping badly. I’ve been treating her for SLM and trying to get her to walk on her left foot. A lot of dead scales came off after a few days of treatment. She doesn’t have bumble foot, and the limping is getting better, but she still isn’t really walking on it. Most of the dead scales are gone now, and I want to get her in with other chickens as she’s lonely, but can’t until she can stand properly because they knock her down and peck her if given the opportunity. Yesterday I noticed some discoloration on the foot and am wondering if it’s bruising of some sort?

Injury to the right hock is healed now and most of the dry crunchy scales have fallen off. Purple on her toe scales is from Blu kote. Today she’s getting a soaking and brushing.

 

[nightowl223]

Well, since bruising is actually leaked blood pooled under the skin, and it does look like blood under her skin, it could be. Or, it could be scarring beginning to develop, or brand new skin forming where there was scabbing.

Either way, it looks like she's healing up pretty decently.

 

[Kris5902]

Thanks, I’m massaging it with the Vaseline, and trying to get her to move it more and put weight on it every day. She’s improving, but I worry about how lonely she is, and it upsets her cockerel not being able to be with her at night... when I take her to her crate, they talk back and forth between the barn and the tractor he shares with two other recovering rescues. They are twice her size and fully mobile, so full integration isn’t going to happen until she can at least keep her footing.