Does it look like these feet are healing? (bumble foot pics)

Hi,
A week ago I received a young pullet that's been laying for a few weeks (I think). A couple days later I discovered she had a serious case of bumble foot on both feet. Thank goodness I found lots of good pics and videos here on BYC! So I did my best to cut out the infection, although I didn't see anything I would call a plug, but it bled a lot so I kept running water over it and cutting away as much as I could. Then I packed it with neosporin and bandaged it. I've also been giving her antibiotics in her water.

I'd really like to have someone with a good track record of treating bumble foot look at these two photos and tell me if you think I did okay and if it looks like it's on the mend. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures the first day for a comparison.

Thanks!


Her right foot... I cut open at the base of the toenail, too. I treat & bandage it, too.






Here you see both feet, her toes seem pretty puffy, so tonight I used Prep H, too, as some have suggested.

So.. does 'no comments' mean bad news, or are the photos just too poor to tell anything? thanks.

Hi, I have dealt with bumblefoot and it appears that they are mending. When did you do the original surgery?

Hi,
Thanks for the comment. The surgery was 4 days before these pictures were taken.

I'm sorry I forgot to add this nugget of info....you might try soaking again and seeing if a kernal will come out, sometimes It takes a few soaks to get it out and sometimes there isn't one, but worth the effort especially when the feet are nice and soft now.....

Hi again froggiesheins,
I didn't say in my original post (silly me), that after the surgery I have soaked her feet in epsom salts and reapplied the neosporin and bandages multiple times. I'll be doing it again today. It has weighed on my mind that I never found the "plug" people talk about. I haven't seen anything that looks like a plug since then either, just what shows in the pictures, and I don't really want to cut into the wound and re-open it without good reason. That's why I was hoping to have more experienced eyes take a look. I appreciate your help. Thank you.

Carolyn

I recently got a Blue Silkie roo that had bumblefoot on both feet & I only got one plug out & none of the the stringy, icky stuff everyone talks about was present. I thought I wasn't successful, but continued to soak it & apply Neosporin & bandage it. He's on antibiotics now & so far, so good.

FiveLadyBugs... That's really good information, thank you very much for sharing. How long have you been soaking/treating/bandaging him? Do the antibiotics continue for a period of time beyond that? The "how long" part of the treatments aren't really clear to me yet. You can tell I'm awfully new to all this, right?

Carolyn

CarolynF said:

Hi,
A week ago I received a young pullet that's been laying for a few weeks (I think). A couple days later I discovered she had a serious case of bumble foot on both feet. Thank goodness I found lots of good pics and videos here on BYC! So I did my best to cut out the infection, although I didn't see anything I would call a plug, but it bled a lot so I kept running water over it and cutting away as much as I could. Then I packed it with neosporin and bandaged it. I've also been giving her antibiotics in her water.

I'd really like to have someone with a good track record of treating bumble foot look at these two photos and tell me if you think I did okay and if it looks like it's on the mend. Unfortunately I didn't take pictures the first day for a comparison.

Thanks!


Her right foot... I cut open at the base of the toenail, too. I treat & bandage it, too.






Here you see both feet, her toes seem pretty puffy, so tonight I used Prep H, too, as some have suggested.

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If this these pics were taken 4 days after surgery, then I would say they are looking pretty good. See how the scabs look kind of blood red? That is what you want. The left foot with the toe scab looks really good to me. Watch that scab on the right foot, but I would say you are on track. Keep soaking in epsom salts, apply neosporin and or Prep H to the entire pads and KEEP bandaged. NEVER let these scabs see dirt until they have fallen off the feet. It is just like if you had a scab on your foot. It doesn't necessarily mean your wound is infected, but you would not want to walk barefoot thru dirt and chicken poop until it is well healed.

So, unwrap the feet EVERY day and inspect. You do not need to open these scabs unless you start to get big swelling on the pads and you can see the scabs turning pusy looking. Even lifting off and looking yellow. I think these look good. Apply some sort of ointment for atleast one week and I have found that after that, wiping the scabs with rubbing alcohol and no ointment will speed up the drying and healing. Keep them wrapped daily for weeks. I have had bandages on feet for months waiting for that last tiny scab to fall off. If you remove the bandages too soon, they can become reinfected.

TwoCrowsRanch... Wow, great feedback, thank you!

Sounds like I (or you) should buy stock in the makers of VetWrap! Bandaging her feet for weeks or months is going to use up a LOT of that stuff!

I can see why other people are using products like Vetricyn and TricideNeo to avoid creating open wounds. Have you used either of those methods?
And I've just learned that the withdrawal period for the antibiotic I'm using (duramycin-10) is 21 days. Another thing I wish I'd avoided.

Livin' and Learnin'
Carolyn