Bumblefoot, New Ideas on Treatment with pictures

[klbaker75]

Does anyone know if the colorless iodine will work on bumblefoot that is between the toes and does not have a scab/head on it? I’ve gotten those off the bottom of the feet before but this clear looking bubble between her toes is new to me. I’m afraid to cut into her and I’m not sure the iodine will shrink it without the scab. I’ll post a pic.

 

[klbaker75]

Yeah I have treated them so many times. I’m going to do it every five days for a while and see if it kills the mites.

 

[klbaker75]

Not long. She’s not 2 yet. I didn’t notice it was bad until I sent my friend that same pic and she commented on it. It wasn’t bad around last treatment in February.

 

[klbaker75]

Here are some more pics though I’m not sure they are very clear. The bubble looks a little bigger. You can see the healing cut on bottom of her pad. When looking at the pic of the bottom of her foot, the bubble is located between the left two toes seen. There is no swelling on the underside of the bubble.

 

[klbaker75]

Might want to clean it out and take a close look, those packed folds could get infected and/or cause the swelling you are seeing on the other side of it.
There was another thread on this previously.

I will tonight!! Thanks so much!!

 

[klbaker75]

I very much agree with @aart to clean that out. You may find that is the source of the swelling on the other side. Those nooks/crannies can accumulate quite a bit of crud that festers in there.

For example look at this thread and the photos in the following link, looking at the top of the foot you would think Bumblefoot infection, but turned out being a debris/poop ball that was packed in there pushing it out.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/bumble-foot.1292460/

Thank you again! I’ll check it out.

 

[4Duckssofar]

On July 1st, I found one of my Pekin ducks with what I would consider a bad case of Bumblefoot. Both feet were involved and I'm ashamed to say, the only way I found it was she was limping. One foot had 7 and the other had 3. I was able to grab her and bring her into the house and put her into a warm bath to clean and soak. Two water changes later and softened feet, all I had time to do was paint the bumbles with colorless iodine, grabbed the wrong stuff, and put her into a dog crate in my house until I could get everything ready to operate and get them gone. Did I mention the thought of this scared me half to death?

Sad to say it took 6 days before i was able to get everything together and someone to help out with the 'cure'. The following pictures are what we found after the bath we gave before the planned surgery to remove these things.




















As can be seen, there really wasn't much to operate on, even though I was prepared to do just that. No matter how much squeezing or prodding or soaking, there just wasn't anything more to come out, it was all on the scabs that were covering the sores. The swelling was down from the 'marbles' I saw when I first found them. I poured betadine over the ones I had opened and painted the ones that I hadn't again with the iodine and put her back into her crate with clean bedding.

the next pictures are of the same Pekin and anothe duck, Dottie the Mallard, who was also found limping.












As can be seen in the first two pictures, the bumbles have been dramatically reduced on the Pekin with just the iodine application and the smaller ones totally gone. The last four pictures are of the Mallard who is still under going the iodine applications.

As can be seen, this is how the left and right foot look tonight on the Pekin duck. The heels being the worst are still showing infection and need for more treatment. tomorrow, I will again give a bath and pull/cut out the scabbing and treat with straight iodine this time. These spots are now flat or as flat as they should be considering the part of the foot they are on. I will still touch up the places that had the spots before as well.

I am using iodine at the moment as two of my ducks have bumblefoot but I’m unsure as to how often I should be using the iodine. Can you advise me please?