Bumblefoot hole can't clear pus

My patient is back out on the roost with the flock tonight! It's the first night in at least two weeks she's been with them overnight-maybe more, I've kind of lost count at this point!

She's been with them during the daytime all week, but I've been cleaning her feet and putting her back in the crate to sleep. I usually let them out to free range while I'm doing that and other evening chores, but tonight I was a little late getting them out and found her already on the roost I had been thinking it might be time to see if she'd be ok roosting again, and she kind of made the decision for me.

I did take her off briefly to change her bandages and clean her feet. She had a beautiful healthy scab on her foot, so I felt good about letting her stay out.

If she seems to be sore or limping tomorrow, she can go back to sleeping on soft bedding for a few more days. Hopefully we won't have to though!

Foot with nice scab tonight

Things have been going really well, but unfortunately we had a bit of a setback yesterday.

I'd moved to every-other-day bandage changes, and both of her feet seemed to be healing well. All of the abrasions on her leg and between her toes were completely healed, all scabs had come off and there was nice, smooth new skin underneath. The less-bad foot has healed so well that she's about ready to go bandageless on that foot. The worse foot was also healing well, the scab was starting to dry out and big pieces of it flaked off.

However, last night when I was changing bandages, the worse foot was full of pus again. It was a lot different than it's been before though. The foot was not hot, swollen, or even red. Essentially, the remaining scab seemed to have been replaced by a core of pus. it was like squeezing a pimple (yes, it was that gross). There was a big white raised area, and when I squeezed, there was a little liquid puss behind it but the plug just popped out in two big pieces. I almost wonder if that was the original plug that I never was really able to get out at the beginning of this. It was not stringy, cottage cheesy pus this time, much easier to remove. I packed the hole with the povidone iodine gel and rebandaged.

I changed the bandage again this morning to see what I was dealing with. There was a little bit more of the liquid yellow pus, but it came out pretty easily with a squeeze. More iodine gel and a new bandage. It rained a lot last night so the ground is a little soggy this morning, so I put her back in the hospital crate for the day to keep it clean and dry. Will change again tonight and see how it's doing.

Now that you finally got a plug out, she should get better. Congratulations, your care will get her all mended up soon!

So about a week after clearing the last of the plug from the foot, she looks so much better! The foot is healing up nicely. She still has a healthy scab there and I'm continuing to bandage just to keep it clean and protected as it heals, but I hope by the end of the week I may be able to stop that. Here's the foot last night at bandage change:


Poor girl is molting and looking pretty raggedy:


This is what my work area looks like after handling her for the bandage change- feather bomb!

I’m having the same problem. I was told to use fish mox, it’s amoxicillin from the fish store. The gals who told me about it are very
Educated chicken people who have become their own vet. So far so good, you just have to get the right
Dosage per pound of bird.
I’m also soaking the foot in Tricide-neo. I use one tablespoon in one gallon of distilled water. Make sure it dissolves. I soak twice a day for 10 mins each time. Some people have had really good luck with it and others say not so much, but I think it depends on the situation.
My hens bumble is open so the soaking can get into the area. If the bumble is not open I can’t see how it would get in.

So far so good. I have heard from other people, Curing bumble can be sometimes difficult.