Black toes

[myBugslovesme]

I’m wondering what is wrong with my rooster’s 2 back toes. It’s on both, on the tops. I can only find bumblefoot online, snd I did epsom salt baths and wrapping this summer, but it wouldn’t go away. Figured if it didn’t bother him, I’d leave it alone and watch it. Well it hasn’t grown or shrank any, up to today. I saw blood in his pen, so I checked him out. Well al the black is gone and it’s just raw flesh on top of his toes. We had a huge rain yesterday, rained all day, hard. He could have stood in rain water for a long time and soaked black stuff off. I sent pics to my vet of his toes this summer, but they don’t have any idea what it could be, they aren’t chicken vets. At all. So was just wondering what it could be and how to treat it. I’ve brought him and his lady inside my garage in a large puppy pen type cage, with deep straw, and spraying with vetricyn.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Looks like a really badly infected injury.

 

[roosterhavoc]

I’m wondering what is wrong with my rooster’s 2 back toes. It’s on both, on the tops. I can only find bumblefoot online, snd I did epsom salt baths and wrapping this summer, but it wouldn’t go away. Figured if it didn’t bother him, I’d leave it alone and watch it. Well it hasn’t grown or shrank any, up to today. I saw blood in his pen, so I checked him out. Well al the black is gone and it’s just raw flesh on top of his toes. We had a huge rain yesterday, rained all day, hard. He could have stood in rain water for a long time and soaked black stuff off. I sent pics to my vet of his toes this summer, but they don’t have any idea what it could be, they aren’t chicken vets. At all. So was just wondering what it could be and how to treat it. I’ve brought him and his lady inside my garage in a large puppy pen type cage, with deep straw, and spraying with vetricyn.

Do you have a better pic of the rooster? He looks like a gamecock and he destroyed his prop toes by kicking the wire.

by the way don’t allow other roosters to run free since they’ll tease him while he’s in a pen. That’s how it happened.

 

[myBugslovesme]

Do you have a better pic of the rooster? He looks like a gamecock and he destroyed his prop toes by kicking the wire.

by the way don’t allow other roosters to run free since they’ll tease him while he’s in a pen. That’s how it happened.

I can get more of his toes tomorrow. When we bought him last summer he was like this. If that was the case why didn’t he get better when I was treating him before, do you think? I had them in my house for a few weeks, the scabs would not heal up. How do I treat them? Will vetrycin work? Only my hens run free, my roosters are penned up. My others are barnyard mixes, I keep him and his hen together, they came together from the guy we got them from. Thank you for your help!

 

[roosterhavoc]

I can get more of his toes tomorrow. When we bought him last summer he was like this. If that was the case why didn’t he get better when I was treating him before, do you think? I had them in my house for a few weeks, the scabs would not heal up. How do I treat them? Will vetrycin work? Only my hens run free, my roosters are penned up. My others are barnyard mixes, I keep him and his hen together, they came together from the guy we got them from. Thank you for your help!

Some gamecocks will do it if hens are loose outside messing with him or the hen in with him. I’ve had hens tease some roosters before, it’s just more common with a rooster/rooster through wire.
His toes were messed up when you got him? Well he probably was pen fighting originally. Most likely why he was sold off cause his prop toes were messed up.
I can’t tell completely but covering the prop toes with neosporin and then wrapping with vetrap would help. I have never used veterycin since there’s plenty of stuff out there that work just fine and are a lot cheaper.