Chicken Leg Swelling

I have given her tetracycline but it has become worse.

Chicken leg swelling. Swelling of legs can be common in mycoplasma synovitis MS with other types of arthritis such as staph and with gout. Swelling is more noticeable in joints of the feet and legs. This results in a swelling that feels hot to the touch and causes the bird to limp hold its leg or go off its feet.

The swelling can cover the eyes and make it hard for the chicken to see. Staphylococcus infection is fairly well-known in chickens as Bumblefoot caused initially by a foot injury but in ducks and geese this can be a swelling of the leg and foot that feels hot to touch and causes the bird to limp. Advertisement If you notice these symptoms andor stretched or shiny skin or swelling in the abdomen then you should make an appointment to see your doctor.

The tendon sheaths get. Unfortunately there is no vaccine and the chickens infected will always be carriers. One of my friends hens has got a swollen leg and she has no idea what could have caused it.

And they may even develop dark red spots on their legs and combs. I have a flock of six birds mixed breeds all are fine except for the Rhode Island Red. Losing balance outstretched legs spams twisting of the head.

Its hard to get a good picture of a bumble foot treatment when you are also holding the chicken Splay Leg in Chicks. But today her leg and foot is swollen. One of our barred rock girls started limping a couple of days ago.

The hen is fine in all other respects - eating drinking laying etc - and is walking perfectly well but one of her legs is very swollen about half way down. Chicken with swollen leg. Lameness swollen joints lesions Possible cause.