Chicken Spots On Legs
Broken legs usually cause chickens to completely avoid using the leg.
Chicken spots on legs. They are often flush with the skin not filled with fluid or swollen. These parasites appear as black brown or red spots on chickens. Instead of boiling water causing the injury the culprits in scald are wet bedding and chicken droppings.
Soak the legs of the chicken in warm water to soften the scale the bird will HATE this. I usually kosher my chicken even though Im Presbyterian according to the simple directions on a box of kosher salt. They looked a lot like chicken pox spots some startting to scab over a bit.
Pox is a viral disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes. Use at the rate of 1 drop per 500g bodyweight for chickens. The scaly leg mite Knemidocoptes mutans is a pale gray round tiny chicken parasite only about 1100 inch in diameter.
The red spots are blood which should have been drained at the packing plant. The combination of ammonia and wetness causes acute irritation increasing blood flow to the affected area. This will draw out the excess blood and kill most surface bacteria in.
Info on antibiotics for chickens in the USA. My 14month old boy woke up on saturday with spots on his legs that spread to the back of his legs and feet and then his arms although not as many. Wings hanging down or brushing the ground.
He says they are itchy but I havent seen him itching them and he is fine in himself running round like normal. My 15 month old developed red flat dot spots mainly on her legs apart from 3 on her trunk these have turned into raised redpink spots some with a red dot in the middle the doctor said could be chicken pox but this started two weeks ago and there is no s. Blood spot in yolk.
