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    Chicken foot swelling

    He is walking normally, it's still swollen, I was poking it this morning and the side area is a little mushy as is the pad. Mushy as in not hard but I can press it in somewhat.
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    Chicken foot swelling

    It seems less swollen from when I was checking him last night before I started doing the soaks. I'll have to check again after the soak in the morning, it seems squishy but I'm assuming that if the swelling were to go down any, it would feel much harder
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    Chicken foot swelling

    I picked away a small piece of yellow scab and it started bleeding (very little). I did a 20 minute Epson salt soak this morning. His toes seem ok to me, just major swelling on the top of his foot and then into the pad. It doesn't seem hot to me this morning, so I'm not sure if that means the...
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    Chicken foot swelling

    Thank you, I'm going to try the Epson salt tomorrow, I'll update the thread if anything comes of it!
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    Chicken foot swelling

    There is heat to it when I touch, I have not tried a soak yet, I am going to try one tomorrow with him. Where would I get betadine from?
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    Chicken foot swelling

    He walks fine when he does put weight on the foot, his middle toe on the swollen foot seems fine to me. He curled his foot when I went to take a picture
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    Duck has large swelling on toe.

    Just wondering how it ended up turning out, I think I have a rooster with a similar issue as your duck
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    Chicken foot swelling

    Hi! I have a BCM rooster who has developed a sudden swelling on the top of his foot. It does not appear to be bumblefoot, as it doesn't present like how I've seen it before. A friend thinks it could be a cyst but there's really no exit point that I can see, just a big swollen ball. In the...
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