We took drastic measures today and took a scalpel to Rose's foot. I hope we helped, but it sure looked rough. We got a lot of slimy stringy gunk and one chunk that looked almost like a tendon (it came out too easy and didn't cause any foot spasms or flopping). I'm not convinced some of the gunk that came out wasn't footpad fat.
But she wasn't limping when we let her go.
And her giant boyfriend was very well mannered and didn't try to attack us. He did briefly side shuffle at us, and he kept an eye on us. But he behaved himself.
Four or five of the buckeye pullets were very in my pocket today. One of them gossiped at me for about 5 minutes. I thought she might have been complaining about Rose hogging the nest box, but we only got one green egg today so maybe she was just bringing me up to speed on all the coop gossip.
Both malines and one of the buckeyes tidbitted for the girls while I was hanging out with them this morning.
We went ahead and re-wrapped both feet today, but I think we're good to just do twice weekly bandage changes on the bad foot and one more week of keeping the good foot covered ought to be enough to completely heal that one.
Some nice shots of the buckeyes from the other day. I'm really happy with how well they've turned out and looking forward to seeing what hatches next year.
