Smart Feeder - Light sensor values

[chickenNutter]

Ok Omleteers. How much do healthy hens stand on one leg and hold their feet up. My Welsummer is doing it on and off, and she is the one I suspect might have scaly leg mite. Treating it with Johnson's Scaly Lotion, but would that cause her to hold one up?

[Plum]

Mine held it up when she'd strained it nesting on the cube divider but it resolved within a day. Would it be worth checking the pads and between the toes for injuries.

[Chicken Shirl]

Mine do it a lot. They are like nurses and like to give one leg a rest for a while I think. My cockerel does it the most. Nothing wrong with his legs as far as I know. Are you sure they have those mite things

[Plum]

Mine do it a lot. They are like nurses and like to give one leg a rest for a while I think.

 

Can't believe you said that

[Chicken Shirl]

Mine do it a lot. They are like nurses and like to give one leg a rest for a while I think.

 

Can't believe you said that

 

It's true. All nurses do it. Well they used to So do my chooks You could be right though Plum. The poor thing could have a thorn or something.

[whoopsie]

Hey, Midwives do it too!

[jimnpaula]

Paramedics have a response bag to sit on if we don't fancy the state of the chairs

 

P

[chickenNutter]

Firemen spend most of their time with both feet up - I should know I'm married to one.

 

Not completely convinced about the scaley mites, but treating them anyway to be on the safe side. Would scaley mite casue their legs to be so sore they would hold them up?

 

Perhaps OH has got scaley mite in both legs too!

[Plum]

Better dip him in some spirit in case.

 

They can become lame with scaley leg mite.

[JanTheDiver]

I am an ex-Nurse and I can confirm Nurses do stand on one leg from time to time. I gave up nursing over 20yrs ago but still do it if my legs are tired

[Chicken Shirl]

Me Too ......We musn't forget about the poor little chook though. How is she today I must say that I may have misinterpreted the original question. If she is picking her foot up and tentatively puting it down and bringing it up again. Then she may have something in it.

[The Dogmother]

It can cause the legs to be sore, and if left untreated, will eventually make them lame.

 

Having said that, most of mine do the one leg thing from time to time, especially when it's cold and they draw one leg up under their feathers to warm it up.

 

Inspect their legs and spray if you're at all unsure. Check the palms of their feet and toes too.

[jimnpaula]

Just to say mine often lift one leg up too, usually the one with the coloured leg ring on so I can't instantly tell who's who

 

P

[chickenNutter]

Well I spent some time looking at all 3 of the girls tonight, and as a beginner at all of this, I am really not sure whether it is Scaly Mite or not. When I first got them at 12 weeks, their legs were smooth, yellow and lovely. I am now comparing them with that. I cant see any scales that look like they have been lifted, but they look a bit crusty, and 2 of them had crusty lumps between their toes, which when I rubbed in Johnson's scaly treatment, which is oily, has sort of rubbed off. But 2 of them do look slightly 'thickened' and crusty around the ankle area.

 

I think I am going to have to work out how to upload photos so I can let you Omleteers have a proper look. I am such a technophobe.

[Gelbel]

I am an ex-Nurse and I can confirm Nurses do stand on one leg from time to time. I gave up nursing over 20yrs ago but still do it if my legs are tired

Me too. And imagine the amount of one legged poses I have been doing these past few days after 'doing' Venice in 90 mins in boots on Thursday - my poor feet still hurt.

 

Two of my girls stand on one leg from time to time - usually when they are all on their marks to be first out the door if they think they are going to be FR.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

If it helps, this is my Molly when she had scaley leg a while ago. Her leg has never gone back to the smoothness of her good leg and I'm constantly checking that she's not got it again .

[The Dogmother]

That's a very good photo ANH.

[chickencam]

My poor moulting Eggy keeps warming her legs under herself at the moment and she doesn't look happy, why do they lose their feathers at such a stupid time of year??

 

She looks like she has been mauled by something

[The Dogmother]

I totally agree, my tiny lavender pekin has suddenly lost all her feathers. She looks like a cross between a vulture and a porcupine!

[chickenNutter]

Thanks ANH, that's an excellent photo, reallyhelpful, and it does look a bit like what my Welsummer has.

 

I will definitely carry on with the scaly treatment!