I, too, have a chicken (actually 2) with bumblefoot. (hanging head in embarrassment) I just didn't check their feet carefully, and when I noticed my EE had swollen feet, it was a shock. I checked the other 5 and found a scab on one foot of one of the Delawares too.
My daughter has a friend on the west coast who took her hen to an avian vet who prescribed clavamax (mox?) for bumblefoot. She also soaked the hen's foot in warm water and picked off the scab when it was soft and squeezed out the nasty stuff. I'm not sure if she bandaged it or not, but I would suppose she would. My local vet is giving me a prescription for the stuff today and I'm going to use Tricide Neo when it gets here the end of the week. In the meantime I have been using a spray (Vetericyn) on the affected feet.
My vet said to clean the feet thoroughly with Dawn or an anti-bacterial hand soap before soaking them, too. I'm planning to try to soak Lily (the EE) tonight and see if I can get some of the poison out. My DH will be gone for several days on a business trip, so I won't have any help with her after this evening until Saturday.
I'm off to find the page about wrapping chicken feet. I got vet wrap today and plan to do all this just before bedtime for chickies. (or maybe just after they go to roost. She will have to sleep in the indoor dog coop tonight, I suppose. I wouldn't want her falling off the roost and hurting herself.
My daughter has a friend on the west coast who took her hen to an avian vet who prescribed clavamax (mox?) for bumblefoot. She also soaked the hen's foot in warm water and picked off the scab when it was soft and squeezed out the nasty stuff. I'm not sure if she bandaged it or not, but I would suppose she would. My local vet is giving me a prescription for the stuff today and I'm going to use Tricide Neo when it gets here the end of the week. In the meantime I have been using a spray (Vetericyn) on the affected feet.
My vet said to clean the feet thoroughly with Dawn or an anti-bacterial hand soap before soaking them, too. I'm planning to try to soak Lily (the EE) tonight and see if I can get some of the poison out. My DH will be gone for several days on a business trip, so I won't have any help with her after this evening until Saturday.
I'm off to find the page about wrapping chicken feet. I got vet wrap today and plan to do all this just before bedtime for chickies. (or maybe just after they go to roost. She will have to sleep in the indoor dog coop tonight, I suppose. I wouldn't want her falling off the roost and hurting herself.