lbgreenfield
Songster
Hi everyone - I've recently adopted a 2.5 year old California White Leghorn chicken that had a small, 5mm diameter bumblefoot scab on her right foot. For two weeks, I did daily epsom salt soaks and bandaged with gauze and Neosporin prior to surgery to see if the scab would go away on its own. After two weeks, the scab did not go away, increase, or decrease in size. After researching at-home surgery options and watching a lot of YouTube videos, I did the removal surgery twice now, with no success. I waited one week in between each surgery. During both surgeries, no pus discharge or "cottage cheese" type fluids were observed or removed. I literally found nothing within her foot pad once I removed the scab. The scab came off without any plug or associated materials, just a flat black scab. After the second surgery, I have once again been doing daily epsom salt soaks, massaging the foot pad, and bandaging with Neosporin and gauze. Her foot pad is still swollen and pink, but the scab is closing up and healing, although it still appears to be bumblefoot. She is eating, drinking, scratching, dirt bathing, and roosting just fine. I'm asking if there is anything else I can do to remove the bumblefoot via non-surgical options? I've thought about purchasing TricideNeo once her scab heals to see if that would help, but at this point, she's happy, eating/drinking, and acting pretty normal, so I'm tempted to let it go for now. Any thoughts on how to proceed or any thoughts on what else this might be other than bumblefoot? I've attached two photos that I took last night (29 July 2019) - one of her bumblefoot and one of her normal foot.