I discovered one of my ducks has bumblefoot. How do you wrap the ducks feet once you have treated the infection? I know how to wrap a chicken's foot, but a duck??
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I don't like opening ducks' feet - have you seen what they WALK in?!
Really, if you can avoid breaking the skin and use topical treatment, that's the way to go. Now, if it's advanced, and could begin to go systemic, then you're talking more invasive, but then I'd get some oral antibiotics going. Opening a foot risks infection.
So, quarter size. Hmm. I'd give the duck a nice long lukewarm bath, to loosen things up and help clean it off.
Then dry off and clean with something like hydrogen peroxide, or povidone iodine (betadyne) but I'd rinse that off - I was recently told that leaving iodine solution on can be very irritating to the tissue. Then I'd put the triple antibiotic on and keep the duck overnight in a (relatively) clean dry place. I'd do that for the first night or two only, and I say this due to the size of the bumble you describe.
Baby socks can be used over the foot, Nettie makes and sells neoprene booties, which I have used, some use those corn patches (you know, for people's foot problems, because they have an adhesive side).
It takes a long time for a bumble to go away treating it topically, but it does go away. Once it's on the run, the duck can live normally (the isolation at night shouldn't have to be for long), just get picked up a few times a day for an ointment rub-down on its food. I also put ointment on the top of the foot - anywhere near the bumble so the medicine can soak into the skin.
Again, since this one sounds larger than what I've treated, you may need to seriously consider whether opening it will reduce risk of systemic infection, but it's a tradeoff. When you open the foot, you're potentially inviting more trouble.