Black feet but NOT bumble?! Help?

[mandymcg05]

The past couple of weeks have been rough for my girls and boys. We’ve been treating lice... had dry fowl pox break out... and now I have a cockerel with some weird feet things going on. No his feet are NOT normally black on the bottom like this... at least I’ve never seen them Like this before. They’re almost bruised? He’s walking somewhat easy but nothing else is different about him.

I also have a hand full of my bigger birds, him included, with these little bumps/sores on the OUTSIDE of a few of theirs toes. Is this a form of bumble foot? And if so how? They free range about 2-4 hours a day. Otherwise their run has wood chips and their coop has hay that is switched out every couple of weeks. More now with the lice issue we are treating. I’m treating that with diluted primetherin concentrate. And they roost on branches from a big tree in the yard that was cut down.

 

[M-H-Fielding]

My friend had a chicken whos toes kept turning black like that, then falling off! Not sure what it is. Hopefully, the problem with your bird isn't the same thing my friend's chicken had.

 

[mandymcg05]

My friend had a chicken whos toes kept turning black like that, then falling off! Not sure what it is. Hopefully, the problem with your bird isn't the same thing my friend's chicken had.

Yeah me too. I don’t know. It’s pretty hard and I don’t think I can soak multiple chickens but I guess if I have too I’ll figure it out.

 

[Painted Calls]

My friend had a chicken whos toes kept turning black like that, then falling off! Not sure what it is. Hopefully, the problem with your bird isn't the same thing my friend's chicken had.

This sounds like frostbite.

Not sure what's going on with yours, OP. What breed is he?

 

[docdubz]

Take my input with a grain of salt but that looks fungal to me.

 

[roosterhavoc]

The past couple of weeks have been rough for my girls and boys. We’ve been treating lice... had dry fowl pox break out... and now I have a cockerel with some weird feet things going on. No his feet are NOT normally black on the bottom like this... at least I’ve never seen them Like this before. They’re almost bruised? He’s walking somewhat easy but nothing else is different about him.

I also have a hand full of my bigger birds, him included, with these little bumps/sores on the OUTSIDE of a few of theirs toes. Is this a form of bumble foot? And if so how? They free range about 2-4 hours a day. Otherwise their run has wood chips and their coop has hay that is switched out every couple of weeks. More now with the lice issue we are treating. I’m treating that with diluted primetherin concentrate. And they roost on branches from a big tree in the yard that was cut down.

There’s nothing wrong with his feet. Just the color.

 

[roosterhavoc]

The bumps on his toes could be fowl pox but the black coloring on his feet isn’t anything to worry about.

 

[mandymcg05]

Ok. Thank you. He’s a mixed bird like an EE. He only has one or two fowl pox spots on his comb but he isn’t the only birds with a couple of these bumps on the toes. I swear I have never noticed the bottom of his feet being this black and faded out before.

 

[mandymcg05]

he’s less than 5-6 mths old. Could his feet coloring be changing?

 

[roosterhavoc]

he’s less than 5-6 mths old. Could his feet coloring be changing?

Yes that’s exactly what’s happening. No worries It’s easy to overthink everything for awhile after you’ve had to deal with some issues.