You are such a good chicken mama taking such loving care of your girls...I'm sure they're getting spoiled rotten by now!!
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Remember back earlier when you said, in part:
I still think this is your major problem-causer for your girls. Is there any way you can get ahold of some of that cheap green plastic "wannabe" chicken wire and literally cordon off that area so you girls can't get in there?
I wish they all popped out under the scab!
This is what I do with tough ones. For 5 or so days, I buy this stuff called Magnapaste or like that at a tack store for horses. It's an Epsom salt gel. I goop it on the foot and wrap, usually at night so they are in one place for the night. It might help to wet the gauze as well. But it gives me a good soak for hours x 5 days. That might shrink that thing enough that you can feel it move around. And that may decide whether you should attempt a cut. Like a slit in the skin may let you see what's in there. Look at it this way, you have to do something. Magnapaste mixes real well with a bit of iodine or betadine as well.
If you think you should, maybe put her on antibiotics at the same time. Like Pen G injectable 0.5 ml x 5 days. LS 50 powder in the water, or anything that kills staph. It might also help shrink that thing.
Sometimes I cut off a baggy and put that over the foot with the goop inside and wrap it all up and around the ankle.
Maybe I've given you some methods or maybe it sparks a method of your own. I'd like to hear what happens.