Multiple Hens Limping

Sorry that you lost the Sussex. Could you send or take in her body to your state vet lab for a necropsy tomorrow am? The body should be kept cold but not frozen. You can restart the medicated chick feed, but I would use flock raiser/all flock feed when I can get some. Could her feet be bruised? Chicken bruises are sometimes green, and sometimes blue. Could they be injured?
 
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I’m not sure how, but I guess anything is possible if the coop goes crazy 😂. I’m hoping we don’t lose her and I’m trying to find anything I can. One of those feet definitely looks a little bigger than the other and we didn’t notice it previously, so maybe in another day it will prove irrelevant or turn into something we can see better. Thank you for responding and all of your help.
 
I reached out to one of the labs yesterday and got info. I didn’t save her body though. I’m in panic mode with 3 that were acting odd so I wanted to clear house of her asap. I am really wondering if it has to do with transitioning them to layers feed too soon and it negatively affecting them. The ones we have lost have almost been exclusively right before laying age or just after they started.
 
@Eggcessive can we please revisit the Delaware’s condition?

UPDATE (a month since we last discussed): We gave her all kinds of vitamins, egg, etc and put her back on medicated starter feed until yesterday when she laid her first egg 😂. It was tiny but unexpected. She has gotten better, standing and walking more. Her issue originally seemed as if it was only one foot but she now walks but steps on her own feet some and high steps with both legs. Honestly, I think she is getting closer to going back with the flock but she is still not stable enough on her feet. She eats a ton, drinks, and is very alert. You would never know anything was wrong with her until you watch her walk. Heck, she laid an egg! 😂 Any ideas of what could have been, or is still going on for us to help her heal more? Thanks for any help.
 
Does she seem to see well, and are her eyes identical in color and pupil size. I’m glad that she has started laying, but I’m not sure why she is high stepping. Do her legs and feet look straight from the front or back?
 
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She can definitely see well. I’ve been giving her some fermented feed occasionally and when I come around the corner with that she immediately comes to me. Her legs look straight although she does seem to kind of crouch a little at times and bend them almost like she is submissive with no reason, but I have attributed that to weakness. When she walks she tends to kind of put her feet in front of each other, like a model walking the runway, causing herself to step on her own feet.
 
It would hurt to give her some human super b complex vitamins 1/4 to 1/2 tablet daily, crushed and added ro a spoonful of water or food. Walmart sells one for about $7. There are various leg issues in poultry that are common, including varus or valgus deformity, b2 riboflavin deficiency, and injuries.
 
@Eggcessive a couple pics from today if they help…

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