sky_fox
Chirping
- Jul 17, 2024
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Hello Everyone,
I have a young Blue Copper Maran hen approximately around a year-ish with bumblefoot on both feet. Once she has her little "boots" on, she walks perfectly fine. We have been treating her for about a month and site is not improving.
For context, we live in Deep East Texas and get quite a bit of rain. She shares a covered run with one other hen and a rooster. The floor of the run is filled with decomposed granite and their bedding where they roost is filled with finely cut pine shavings, so I am not entirely sure how she would have been cut.
What I have been doing to treat the bumble foot:
When I first discovered the bumblefoot about a month ago, I soaked the hen for approximately 10 minutes in an Epsom salt bath. After the soak, we cleaned the feet and removed the scab. However, we did not find any yellow kernel or any yellow puss that would have been in the foot. We massaged the two feet, but nothing came out except blood. We decided to clean the wound site with hydrogen peroxide, spray Poultry Vetricyn on it and put a pea-size of triple antibiotic (without pain relief) on the wound. We wrapped up the two feet individually with gauze, medical sports wrap, and tape to secure the wrapping.
Ever since then, every 3-4 days, I removed the bandages, soaked her feet in Epsom salt for 10 minutes, cleaned the site with hydrogen peroxide, sprayed with the poultry vetricyn, put the triple antibiotic on the site, then applied new bandages.
Is there anything else that I can do? Unfortunately, we do not have an avian vet near us, so ideally we would like to treat this ourselves.
Left Foot:
Right Foot:
I have a young Blue Copper Maran hen approximately around a year-ish with bumblefoot on both feet. Once she has her little "boots" on, she walks perfectly fine. We have been treating her for about a month and site is not improving.
For context, we live in Deep East Texas and get quite a bit of rain. She shares a covered run with one other hen and a rooster. The floor of the run is filled with decomposed granite and their bedding where they roost is filled with finely cut pine shavings, so I am not entirely sure how she would have been cut.
What I have been doing to treat the bumble foot:
When I first discovered the bumblefoot about a month ago, I soaked the hen for approximately 10 minutes in an Epsom salt bath. After the soak, we cleaned the feet and removed the scab. However, we did not find any yellow kernel or any yellow puss that would have been in the foot. We massaged the two feet, but nothing came out except blood. We decided to clean the wound site with hydrogen peroxide, spray Poultry Vetricyn on it and put a pea-size of triple antibiotic (without pain relief) on the wound. We wrapped up the two feet individually with gauze, medical sports wrap, and tape to secure the wrapping.
Ever since then, every 3-4 days, I removed the bandages, soaked her feet in Epsom salt for 10 minutes, cleaned the site with hydrogen peroxide, sprayed with the poultry vetricyn, put the triple antibiotic on the site, then applied new bandages.
Is there anything else that I can do? Unfortunately, we do not have an avian vet near us, so ideally we would like to treat this ourselves.
Left Foot:
Right Foot:
