How to deal with leg problem in chicken

From an early life through laying period to when the birds are finally depleted, hens typically experience leg problems and challenges that can reduce egg production and farmer’s economic fortunes. Skeletal problems are primarily seen as lameness, they can be categorised as caused by bacterial or viral infection (infectious) or due to other injury(non-infectious). It can also be due to a combination of infectious and non-infectious agents or as a synergistic interaction of both. The fastest bone growth occurs in the first 2-3 weeks of age in chicken, and therefore any nutritional deficiency or any other toxic insult affecting the bones will naturally be expressed where the bone plates are growing fast. This happens more commonly at the ankle joint (proximal Tibiotarsus) and hock joint (tarsometatarsus).