My rooster has swollen feet and can't walk good

[MrsBachbach]

The bad thing is I don't have a vet in my area that would work on chickens i thought by antiboditcs and soaking his feet would make the swelling go down but it didn't work some people say to do surgery but I wouldn't even know where to start my best guess is he must have got a splinter in his foot from the roost and it got infected or he got it hung on the chicken wire one day and cut it I have been using peroxide too to make sure the infection doesn't get worse the foot that doesn't have the black scab is a little better because the scab was in a different place and it fell off with perxiode but it is still swollen tho

Well, if you can't get him to a vet, if it was me, I would try the Pen G injections. Although, I will say Kathy, another poster, is saying her vet book says birds get higher doses than cattle/sheep. So, the dose I told you may be too small. Based on what she is showing us it would be more like 66,000 IU/kg.(2.2lbs) One ml contains 300, 000 IU so you would need to weigh your rooster. So a rough estimate, an eight pound rooster would need almost one ml a day. Thats a rough estimate I don't have a calculator. I would give it to him for five days and then make sure you get some probiotics in him, plain non flavored yogurt with the live cultures in it, mix a tablespoon in a little of his food daily for several days after treatment.

 

[rooster 2011]

Ok thanks for your help

 

[rooster 2011]

What the best place to give him the injection is it better to do it in the skin behind the neck or in the wing or what

 

[Eggcessive]

What the best place to give him the injection is it better to do it in the skin behind the neck or in the wing or what

PenicillinG is given in the muscle,so the breast muscle is the best place to avoid injecting into a nerve. Only go 1/4 inch deep with the needle into the fattest part of the breast, and alternate sides daily for 4 days. Give 1/4 ml daily for 4 days. That dose would treat any size chicken.

 

[MrsBachbach]

What the best place to give him the injection is it better to do it in the skin behind the neck or in the wing or what

In the muscle, but the revised dose I wrote about is for Pen G Potassium not Pen G Procaine. Just so you know. I've given the Procaine to my birds in the small dose with no ill effects, but, it's your call.