My Red star chicken has bumblefoot. I performed surgery myself following instructions from the chicken chick website. Sterilized everything and used betadine solution to wash out the hole after a corn-kernel sized core came out. packed with triple anitbiotic and wrapped with guaze and vetwrap...
I'm new to byc and to the responsibility of raising a flock (had some as a kid), but i feel like I bought some afflicted chickens. My Cynthia, one of a 4 hen flock of red stars i bought as 1.5 yr old has been very lethargic the past 3 or 4 days and has lost noticeable weight. When I first got...