Possible injury

[theeoz69]

Hello everyone. My name is Ozzy. My wife and I are new to the chicken world. We have 6 Americana’s and 6 Plymouth Rocks layers. I have a concern with one of the Plymouth:

3 days ago while checking on the girls in the morning, we notice one of the Plymouth limping. She wasn’t putting pressure on her right leg. We isolated her in her own Coop working the regular coop so the other girls can still see her. We check i and she has no sores, or abnormal anything in that leg, we cleaned her legs to make sure. The next day she was still limping so we cleaned and let her sit in a bath of epson salt, some sites recommended it. Today, third day, she still limping the same. However, she’s still eating, drinking and laying eggs. Any ideas as to what it could be and recommendations?

 

[Chicalina]

post pics of the undersides of her feet.

I'm thinking bumblefoot as a likely culprit, though could be a leg injury.

 

[theeoz69]

Thank you for replying. Attached are some pictures.

 

[Chicalina]

feet look clear to me. Could she have broken a toe? Or something higher up the leg? could also be a sprain. Examine her carefully and see what you can find. I would crate her for a couple of days or more to immobilise her and let it heal

 

[Chicalina]

you can give baby aspirin and ibuprofen as painkillers to hens. Though there is some argument that if you mask the pain then she might hurt it more by walking on it too soon. Really depends on how bad it is injured.

 

[theeoz69]

Thank you so much. I will do that.

 

[theeoz69]

Thank you so much. I will do that

 

[theeoz69]

I didn’t find anything weird upon inspection of the leg and foot.

 

[Chicalina]

does the leg move the same as the other leg? Any crunching of bones between foot and pelvis, or bending the wrong way?

If no, then I would treat as a sprain. Immobilise and give ibuprofen for a few days. Let him out and see how he fares.

Check the roost heights and anything else he could have jumped down from and hurt himself, and adjust as necessary. Make sure you've got a nice deep litter of shavings on the coop floor (4 inches at least)

 

[theeoz69]

does the leg move the same as the other leg? Any crunching of bones between foot and pelvis, or bending the wrong way?

If no, then I would treat as a sprain. Immobilise and give ibuprofen for a few days. Let him out and see how he fares.

Check the roost heights and anything else he could have jumped down from and hurt himself, and adjust as necessary. Make sure you've got a nice deep litter of shavings on the coop floor (4 inches at least)

does the leg move the same as the other leg? Any crunching of bones between foot and pelvis, or bending the wrong way?

If no, then I would treat as a sprain. Immobilise and give ibuprofen for a few days. Let him out and see how he fares.

Check the roost heights and anything else he could have jumped down from and hurt himself, and adjust as necessary. Make sure you've got a nice deep litter of shavings on the coop floor (4 inches at least)

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Thank you. She’s moving the leg at full range, just not putting pressure on it on landing, she curls her foot instead. No cracking anywhere along the limb. Roosting bar is two feet at the highest point. The run is florida swamp dirt, very powdery. So no shaving.see attached for floor in run and roosting bar.