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    Bumblefoot help hopefully nonsurgical

    Is it normal for it to heal and still be so swollen? Or could there be another problem?
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    Bumblefoot help hopefully nonsurgical

    Also the very faint looking scab is on the more swollen foot...
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    Bumblefoot help hopefully nonsurgical

    I soaked both feet in Epsom salts and messed around with it a bit to see if I could push anything out the I applied Microcyn then triple antibiotic and gauze/petwraped both feet...
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    Bumblefoot help hopefully nonsurgical

    I be watched many videos and read a lot but I really want to try not to be invasive. I got a hold of Lily when I noticed her limping and looks like she has it on both feet but the scabs do not look like the ones in videos. They look more like healed scabs and not really likeplugs you can press...
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    Help with possible capillary worms

    Thanks for all of your help!
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    Help with possible capillary worms

    Do you have any suggestions on giving the others anything preventative? As of now they all look good... maybe vitamin water? Yogurt, olive oil?
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    Help with possible capillary worms

    Ok thanks! Do you think I should still use the safe guard in case it's some kind of worms? Have you ever seen a chick start looking puffy? It's like the feathers are puffed out.
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    Help with possible capillary worms

    I'm not using any antibiotics now. I was speaking of back when they were 6/7 weeks old. Right now I have just one that is sickly. And he is just on corid water and medicated feed inside the house in a crate. I have been watching them closely after the one died the other day and he is the only...
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    Help with possible capillary worms

    The chick the died the other day was all puffy with a puffy crop. The one I have separated is just lethargic. He is eating and drinking a bit but kind of just standing around in the crate...
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    Help with possible capillary worms

    They eat medicated chick feed and freerange part of the day...
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    Help with possible capillary worms

    I wasn't sure what they had because I had gotten some chicks from a local woman (half of which died) and added them to the ones I hatched myself and I've had problems ever since... the woman gave me corid and antibiotics because she was having some sickness going around too. That was when they...
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    Help with possible capillary worms

    I do not have a fecal float. WHen I saw signs of coccidiosis I put them on antibiotics and corid for 10 days then followed up a couple weeks later with another 7 days of corid. I still have him crated with just corid water and medicated feed. If he seems to get better with just the corid I guess...
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