Bite?!?! Tumor?!?! Please Help!

[Granny Hatchet]

I'm too CHICKEN, I know a Vet

I did it in an eyeball socket. no incision

 

[zanderhill]

If it's soft, it needs lanced to drain it. It would be quite similar to what I described for the bumblefoot. Open it with either a large gauge needle on a syringe to drain it with, or open it with the sanitised razor blade to drain it. If it will drain with the syringe, I'd rinse it back out with a half-distilled water, half peroxide solution, and drain that back out, too. If you do it with the razor blade, proceed as I described to medicate and treat it after the gunk was taken out.

Thank you!

 

[zanderhill]

I would add something to above posts, If you do decide to lance it wear gloves. Its more then likely staph infection and contagious to humans .
I see a lot of instructions missing this important step. IF it is a tumor I would expect her to bleed a lot and possible loose her. If the lump is movable it is most likely infection and with the black there I would about bet on it.

Very helpful thanks!

 

[ChickenLady2014]

I think Im seeing some dried puss around the black . I think a lancing is in order here. @Wyorp Rock ???

X2 for lancing, but take cover. When that thing blows it's going to go all over. Sure hope she gets better.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

X2 for lancing, but take cover. When that thing blows it's going to go all over. Sure hope she gets better.

Make sure to wear rubber gloves as it will probably be a staph infection. Then wash your hands good after treating it. I'm wondering if it is bumble foot that traveled to the leg bone? Hope someone that has more experience can help you out.

 

[ChickenLady2014]

Very helpful thanks!

I would add something to above posts, If you do decide to lance it wear gloves. Its more then likely staph infection and contagious to humans .
I see a lot of instructions missing this important step. IF it is a tumor I would expect her to bleed a lot and possible loose her. If the lump is movable it is most likely infection and with the black there I would about bet on it.

Just remembered & edited my post, thanks granny & everyone else with the great advice.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

 

[nightowl223]

Make sure to wear rubber gloves as it will probably be a staph infection. Then wash your hands good after treating it. I'm wondering if it is bumble foot that traveled to the leg bone? Hope someone that has more experience can help you out.

It might have started in the foot, but that's not the only way it can be caught. Any little nick or scrape or even a pinfeather that gets knocked around enough to bleed a bit, any opening where the germ can get in, it will, if it wants. Staph is very opportunistic.

When I caught it, it was in my elbow, and I don't even remember a scratch or anything, but I did have very dry skin there, because of the work I was doing (washing and scrubbing multiple times a day, often with paint thinner first and then soap, and no moisturizer because it would be am magnet for dirt and dust and crud), so I decided it had to have snuck in through a tiny crack in my very dry skin.

I very sincerely hope it didn't come from her foot, as that could mean the bone is involved, as that would be awful!

 

[Eggcessive]

Something so large could be an abscess, but a tumor is also possible, and those can be common in chickens. If you decide to lance it and squeeze it to see what comes out, a cheesy like substance would indicate an abscess, but only blood would indicate a tumor.

 

[nightowl223]

Chickens dont have puss like we do. theirs is hard and formed so it wont drain through a small incision it has to be worked out of there. And your right, if you dont get it all it will come back.

Generally, I will agree with you. But there are situations where there will be fluid involved, too. It won't be pus as we generally think of it, but things like that can, occasionally, have built up fluids as well as the hardened pus that they usually make. I saw it once in a joint that had gotten a thorn stuck in it (a shame that chickens can't talk, because they sometimes get into situations so ridiculous that you'd LOVE to hear the excuse for them ...) It was caught very early, and there was only fluid and a teensy bit of the cheesy stuff their white cells create in an infection. Maybe it was because of the toxins in the thorn (it was a locust tree thorn, notorious for being quite painful and causing quite a little bit of swelling), or maybe because it was in a joint. Either way, there can be fluids under pressure in a spot like that.

Likely, though, from the looks of this, there will be a big round ball of the cheesy junk inside, and maybe a tiny bit of fluids (though it may just be blood).

I hope we can get an update, as I would be interested to know if I was correct, if only to know better next time.