Phoenix bantam rooster with suspected leg/foot sprain

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Hi, as the title says, I have a phoenix bantam rooster who's 4 months old with what I suspect is a sprained fior or leg. He won't extend his toes and stands on his foot as seen in the image. He has been quite low in rank in my quarantine coop and I found him standing like this yesterday. I separated him and his hen and I'm giving them vitamins in their water (more for the rooster than anything). However I'm worried about if vitamins and a separate cafe will actually help anything. Him and his hen get along great, but my other new bantam hens are not quite as nice so I'm assuming he hurt himself running away or falling off the roost bar. Any suggestions would be awesome and I'm not entirely sure how to handle this as I've never had a problem like this.

 

[Eggcessive]

He may have a injury with some nerve involvement, a vitamin B2 (riboflavin) deficiency, and more rarely Mareks disease can cause this nerve problem which can be curled toe paralysis. Hopefully, it isn’t that. I would crush 1/2 tablet of human vitamin B complex in his food daily. Here is one that is good:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Spring-V...Tkg8DxUtwvfMtP4OJkeOi9tu145ynDroaApueEALw_wcB

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

He may have a injury with some nerve involvement, a vitamin B2 (riboflavin) deficiency, and more rarely Mareks disease can cause this nerve problem which can be curled toe paralysis. Hopefully, it isn’t that. I would crush 1/2 tablet of human vitamin B complex in his food daily. Here is one that is good:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Spring-V...Tkg8DxUtwvfMtP4OJkeOi9tu145ynDroaApueEALw_wcB

Thanks so much for the info! I'll start giving him vitamin B.

How do I know if it's Marek's? I saw his parents and the other breeding flock around him and they all looks plenty healthy. Is there like a test somewhere? I've never dealt with it personally, but I know it's wiped out my friend's flock a year or two ago so I'm a bit worried about how to deal with it

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Sure hope Marek's isn't the problem

 

[dawg53]

Please see post #4 in this link, it might help:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/limping-chicken.1243650/

 

[Eggcessive]

Be careful visiting a friend’s farm who has had Mareks. It is spread in feather dander and dust, and may last in the area for years. The best way to get testing is a necropsy on a chicken by your state vet lab where they look for tumors, and do feather shaft testing. Other testing can be done by a few national labs, such as RAL (vetdna) and Zoologix. With those, they send materials and you collect a blood specimen on your live bird from a cut toenail, and send the material back to the lab for pcr testing. Here are some links for info:
https://www.vetdna.com/

https://www.zoologix.com/

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Please see post #4 in this link, it might help:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/limping-chicken.1243650/

That's super helpful, thanks!!! He went from a brooder to a coop with a fairly high roost so that might've been where he got injured

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

I'll separate him into a separate setup away from anyone

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

He's been in a separate dog crate completely away from all other birds with my pile/wall of haybales giving a visual block of where anything of interest or stress might be. He has water and I'm going to get vitamin B tomorrow so for tonight he'll have vitamin water. He was actually roosting in his small pen when I went to grab him and his bad foot was wrapped around the perch kinda sideways with his back toe kinda squished but now he doesn't have a roost bar in his far smaller recovery setup! He has soft bedding and easy access to both water and food

 

[Eggcessive]

Be sure to get super B complex vitamins which contains all B vitamins, including riboflavin which helps with leg issues. Here is one for a good price:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Spring-V...1ffZ4-7FX_qRywNCA9t7rR-fXRTXBg_RoCxZgQAvD_BwE