whats this on my rooster?

[TK Poultry]

i was looking over my rooster today and was giving him a good check and noticed his little toe and the bottom of his foot are a pinky color (hes an ameraucana) and there is this purply line going up his leg! what is this should i be concerned?

 

[Sillystunt]

picture? does he have a cut? Maybe a staph infection but hard to tell with out a picture

 

[gritsar]

Pics would help but I've noticed my roo's legs get pinkish in the springtime, hormones.

 

[Kittymomma]

I agree with gritsar, mine all have that too and in started about the same time they got interested in the girls.

 

[RockwaterFarm]

same with mine. some of it goes away but some pink will still be between the toes. I always thought it was a rash.

 

[crazyhen]

My roo has it too. If you are talking about a reddish coloring of the scales. He is a young roo. This is his first spring( hopefully it will be Spring soon). He is a splash orp. Gloria Jean

 

[bargain]

Believe he's coming of age as Granny used to say!

 

[gritsar]

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That's a great way of putting it. All that testosterone running through one little body, bound to show up on the skin.

 

[TK Poultry]

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its a thin line going up his scales it looks like the scales have changed color not a rash. he is in a pen for show conditioning so i wouldnt think he would pick up much.

 

[elmo]

Check the other foot and leg. If they match, there's nothing to worry about. My little roo has this, too. I call them his racing stripes!