Took out a couple good chunks and lots of little pieces. The big bump didn't have any hard-feeling places on it anymore by the time I finished and I hope I dug down deep enough between her toes to find everything. She was so good... gave her some meloxicam before we started and she seemed very...
I had taken the hen back to the brick and mortar Vet for a followup appointment a week after I posted this and he was pleased that the crappy incision I had made was scabbed over, clean, and the swelling had mostly gone down. She still had some swelling between two toes. He told me to stop...
All he said was that he didn't "use it for that." He also said no topicals, but that I could still soak it in the Epsom salt solution (20min/2x day but the best I can do is once with work). The swelling has gone down slightly in the last couple of days but not much. She started the amoxicillin...
Had a mild to moderate bumblefoot infection that I stopped treating a little too early (Epsom salt soaks, vetericin, antibiotic ointment all daily) because I assumed it was healed enough to stop bandaging (the hole, which was small to begin with, was almost completely closed up with healthy...