Welsummer Issue

[Smalls Chicks]

Sprains take up to six weeks to heal. Are you giving her aspirin for pain? It also helps to restrict her movement by reducing the size of the area she has to move around in and making it easy for her to access food and water with minimal physical effort.

Isolated in house bathroom. Has own food and water. Not movement in the foot. Does not retract leg when touched as happens when her good Foot/ leg are touched. When palpated , her joint is loose. When she moves in cage(med size), she drags her leg. When she rests, her injured leg is splayed outward. We were concerned that the splaying of her leg would cause additional injury, so we splinted the joint using an adapted piece of pipe insulation and cloth rap. Careful not to be too tight.

Sprains take up to six weeks to heal. Are you giving her aspirin for pain? It also helps to restrict her movement by reducing the size of the area she has to move around in and making it easy for her to access food and water with minimal physical effort.

We have isolated her. On plapation of the injured leg/joint/ and foot, there is no retraction by her. No response at all. When she moves at all her leg just drags behind. When she lays down the leg is splayed outward. On palpation the joint does feel loose. To protect frim further injury and to promote/assist in healing, we have imobilized her joint by placing a piece of pipe insulation wrapped around the leg above the joint to below the joint. Light cloth wrapping to hold in place. Seems better than allowing the leg to flop around. Have not done aspirin as of yet. Also cut back the claw that seemed to be poking into her foot.
No reaction from the trimming. Thank you for the assistance!

 

[azygous]

Would you say the leg is getting more lame than it was? It's too early to jump to conclusions, but paralysis shouldn't be happening with a sprain.

Let's try vitamin B complex. Get the B-100 from the Walmart pharmacy and give her one tablet each day. If this is happening from disuse from the injury, the B-complex can help heal and strengthen the leg.

Give it at least four weeks before you expect to see improvement. If it gets worse and new symptoms arise, we may be looking at an avian virus. Lymphoid leucosis or Marek's.