Chicken Swollen Leg

I have given her tetracycline but it has become worse.

Chicken swollen leg. First check each chicken for leg and face mites symptoms and quarantine all infected chickens. There are a lot of videos on the internet with directions to make splints and bandages to. I have had her separated from the others as her leg at the knee is it a knee is swollen and hot to the touch.

She was able to stand on one leg and hop but this morning she is flopping around and kind of scooting. Splay leg or spraddle leg in chicks can often be repaired. One of my friends hens has got a swollen leg and she has no idea what could have caused it.

Roosters do have thicker legs than pullets or hens. Implementing the on-farm biosecurity measure can prevent the spread of this disease among the birds. Staphylococcus infection occurs in the tendon sheaths so it can take a long time to heal tendons have very little blood supply.

The swelling can cover the eyes and make it hard for the chicken to see. It could also be Infectious Synovitis or MS. A quick trip to the vet would establish if this is the case and they would be able to put your hen on a course of antibiotics which typically is Tylan an oral antibiotic.

If theres any swelling or the leg feels hot to the touch this could be condition caused by Mycoplasma synoviae and its a condition that should not be taken too lightly. She is even laying eggs still as she lays in. Chickens with MS tend to sit around a lot and may develop blisters or scabs on their sternum or keel bone chest.

Search All Symptom s Abdomen Enlarged. Info on antibiotics for chickens in the USA. But today her leg and foot is swollen.