Not sure if my one hen has bumblefoot, please help. - Page 2

Any time! Yeah, you can get vetrap in lots of places, Jeffers Livestock (its a magazine) has it for only $1.29!! I was looking for the Tricide Neo online and it was about $35 most places. And putting Neosporin on the gauze then wrapping up the feet in the vetrap is good to do, it will help the Tricide Neo and Epsom salts work quicker because of the feet being cleaner. Having bumblefoot shouldn't make them not walk, at least for the medium scab that your hen has.

I have a hen with severe bumble foot that I have to do surgery on as soon as I get the syringes, vetrap, gloves, etc. I checked my other girl's feet, and THREE of them have small scabs! Will be going through lots of Epsom salts, neosporin, and vetrap!! Poor babies.. Luckily the other two are clear as of right now..

If you need anything, feel completely free to private message me! I might be able to help you with a lot of this kind of stuff.

I'm thrilled I could help!

I think people may be mixing and matching different treatments for bumblefoot.  The foot is cleaned and wrapped after surgery because there is an open wound.  The reason TricideNeo is a great treatment option is that it sometimes works without surgery. That is, without pulling off the scab and without pulling out the plug.   And if you are not doing surgery -- if you have not picked off the scab and have not pulled out the plug --  there is no open wound, and therefore no need to clean and wrap the foot.  And no need to isolate the affected chicken. 

Also, I would not soak the foot in epsom salts prior to soaking in TricideNeo.  Some of the salts may remain on her foot and TricideNeo is meant to be used alone.  Can the salts react in some way with the antibiotic in TricideNeo?  Can they impede its entry into the abscess?  I don't know the answers, but would not want to risk it.  Bumblefoot is an abscess, and epsom salts don't cure abscesses.  Antibiotics (such as TricideNeo) do.

Ah yes that is true. I had already tried the surgery prior to soaking in the neo solution. I was also putting neosporin on a gauze pad and putting it on the foot.

after reading these posts, i want to try TricideNeo without a soak or wrap. but i am completely ignorant about exactly what to do. do i pour it on her foot? do i put it in a pan and make her stand in it? how long?  once a day? twice? etc? etc? etc? please help. thanks
 

Hi Oledan, what you do is order the TricideNeo powder and get a gallon of distilled water at the grocery store. Follow directions on how much water to dissolve the powder on.  I think I got enough powder for a gallon of water, and just poured it right into the gallon jug of distilled water and shook to dissolve.  To soak the foot, I poured some of the solution into a plastic container big enough for the hen's foot.  Each evening, I just held her for 5-10 minutes with the affected foot in the solution so that the foot was totally immersed.  Then I gave her a pat on the head and sent her off to bed with the rest of the flock.  That's it.  I never picked off the scab or dug out the abscess.  Every day the swelling got smaller and the hen limped less.  I waited until she was no longer limping and the swelling was gone, and continued the once daily soak for another few days just for good measure. I stored the solution at room temperature, I think.  It might have to be in a dark area, to prevent decomposition - I cannot really recall for sure, but it will say so on the package, if does need to be kept in the dark.

 

My hen's case was not terribly severe.  There was an obvious swelling, and a dark scab, but it was not as huge as some bumblefoot swellings you can see online.  Some people have said this treatment did not work for them.  Perhaps their bird's infection was worse, or perhaps they did something wrong.  It seems like some people are combining different treatments, so I wonder if it is best to use TricideNeo alone.  It does need to penetrate the skin and get into the abscess, so maybe some of the other soaks and ointments people are using while treating with TricideNeo are interfering with this process???

Hi again Oledan.  I've seen in some of the bumblefoot threads that some people do the Tricide soaks twice a day.  I did it only once a day, and she was cured within about a week (but I continued soaking for about 10 days, I think).  Twice a day can't hurt.  Maybe I caught mine early, so it was easier to treat.  Good luck and please report back on how it works.

It didn't work for me...but I think it was the severity that was the issue. I piddled around, tried surgery....piddled some more...just basically made a mess before trying it. Next time I will soak twice a day and start as soon as I see the problem.