Is this Scaly Mites or something else... or am I just worried over nothing?

[Dido13]

Hi Everyone,

I have 5 sex-link chickens that I have had for a little over three weeks. I have been keeping the coop clean and just changed the shaving. We put DE (Food grade) down the day we got the chickens and I DE's where they took their first dust bath. I noticed one of my chickens had what looks like bruises and of course as a newbie to all this I panicked and went online to see what scaly mites look like. The scales on my chicken are not sticking up at all. She is very active and just started laying this past Monday. Is this scaly mites... something else.... should I worry? My husband and I just changed the shaving yesterday and DE'd again. I put vaseline on her scales today as well. Thanks for any help you can offer me!!! The second picture she has the vaseline on.

 

[leadwolf1]

Ouch, that looks like bruising more than mites. Maybe she was stepped on or got her foot caught in something.

 

[nurse_turtle]

One of her fellow chickens decided to peck her foot. No worries.

 

[Dido13]

Thank you so much for the fast reply!!! Is there anything I could do to help it heal?

 

[Dido13]

Thanks for the fast reply! Is there anything I could or need to do to help heal it. Or it will just heal on it's own.

 

[Dido13]

Thanks for the fast reply! Is there anything I could or need to do to help heal it. Or it will just heal on it's own.

 

[leadwolf1]

It is just a bruise...just like you would get if you got pinched...you can just leave it alone unless the skin is broken.