Bubbles and Bumblefoot??[PICTURES]

[Yoko]

Alright, I return to BYC sadly for some help :C I have 2 chickens with 2 separate problems

1st with the bubbles-
I have this chicken of mine and her crop has always been kind of bigger I noticed, but recently when I pick her up, she starts swallowing, and earlier when I picked her up, all these bubbles started coming out of her beak.
Breed: australorp, age: Almost a year old I'd say, behavior: Normal, eating and drinking normal, normal poop as far as I know
It looked like this:

I don't know what could have caused this, none of the other chickens have this, I feed them layena crumble and they always have fresh water, clean pen, clean coop.

2nd with what I think might be bumblefoot?-
This started a few weeks ago when my RIR had this 'plug', you could call it, on the bottom of her foot, it looks like this:

We took it out and put medicine on it that the vet said would be fine, I don't know exactly what it is, but it's some kind of goop we had stuck on our dog when she had open wounds on her back. It seemed to heal, but came back in the last couple weeks, and the chickens foot swelled, and even grew this grape-sized..something..on her foot

It seemed to have turned to a shade of green on part of it today.
Breed: RIR, Age: almost a year, behavior: normal, she doesn't walk with a limp or anything, eats, drinks, poops normal.

I hope I got the pictures right, if not, I'll try to fix them. >.<

Thank you if you can help me figure out what to do with em.
-Yoko

 

[speckledhen]

The foot is bumblefoot and the thing on top is the solid infection coming out of the top. Had that happen to one EE hen last year.


The crop thing--does her crop feel gassy/bloaty? Grainy? Hard and baseball-like? If gassy, she could have sour crop, but I don't know for sure.

 

[Yoko]

What do you do for the bumblefoot??
It feels gassy, yes.

 

[Higins00]

bumblefoot for sure, looks like it absest right out the top. You need to clean it out and pop that boil out underneath her foot.

 

[azhenhouse]

Hi, If you click on the link below it will take you to a site that will help you with bumblefoot.


http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-treat-chicken-foot-sores.html

 

[redhen]

WOw..never saw a hen foam like that at the mouth..
How often does she do that?

 

[Yoko]

Thank you for the link~
She does that whenever I pick her up or apply pressure to her crop.

 

[azhenhouse]

FYI, We kept our hen inside for seven days while she was on a oral antibiotic, because of the egg withdrawal thing. It drove her crazy to be isolated from the other hens but there was no way I could tell her egg apart from the others. After she was through with the antibiotic we put her back out in the coop, but bandaged her foot so it would continue to heel. We used blue vet tape on our her, it was the only color the store had, and the other hens pecked at it. I put Rooster Booster (pick-no-more-lotion) on it to stop them from pecking at it, and it worked. Maybe with black or a dark colored tape they won't want to chaise after her and peck at her feet. Good luck!

 

[kristen2678]

Poor girl. Bumble foot and sour crop. You'll need to cut into that sore on the bottom and dig out the puss and puss core, clean it, pack it with antibiotic cream and wrap it. Those infections can spread - like it seems to be moving up the foot. I don't know if you have to deal with that nodule or not.

I've never dealt with sour crop but it fits. Search on this board for it. Lots of folks have dealt with it.

Good luck.

 

[Miss Lydia]

http://sites.google.com/site/moodysbantams/poultry-health-1/crop-impaction
hope this helps.