Buff Orpington bumble foot Need help! Healing? Purple spot?

[CCsGarden]

Not sure what the picture of something coming out is.. What is Epson salt poulice? Dealing with bumbles in my flock.
Yours look to all be healing!
Is she limping on the foot? The one you posted of a bubble looking thing.

Epson salt poulice helps with the pain and can take the place of soaking them. I still soak and put all my other ointments on them. She is not limbing.
If you need any advise let me know.
I've been dealing with bumblefoot 2 years now.

 

[alinas2010]

Hey I just came across this thread the other day for some reason, I can’t remember why. But seeing your struggle made me think about it again. It could help you. Not sure if you’ve already tried coach’s sugardine advice, but it’s in post #8. Helps treat a stubborn type of bumblefoot. Has to do with a “stringy” type of pus that ribbons through the foot. I wonder if that’s what you’re dealing with. Can’t hurt to try the sugardine anyways if you haven’t already.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/bumblefoot-not-healing.1443809/

As for the weird material you’re expelling…is it soft or solid? Might just be tissue.

 

[CCsGarden]

Hey I just came across this thread the other day for some reason, I can’t remember why. But seeing your struggle made me think about it again. It could help you. Not sure if you’ve already tried coach’s sugardine advice, but it’s in post #8. Helps treat a stubborn type of bumblefoot. Has to do with a “stringy” type of pus that ribbons through the foot. I wonder if that’s what you’re dealing with. Can’t hurt to try the sugardine anyways if you haven’t already.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/bumblefoot-not-healing.1443809/

As for the weird material you’re expelling…is it soft or solid? Might just be tissue.

Its very slippery and almost feels like slime.
But I'm unable to pull it out of the foot. Also white stuff came out with it.

 

[CCsGarden]

That looks like it still has infection in it. I have a roo that has had very stubborn bumblefoot that is the type that has stringy/ribbony pus through the foot rather than a compact plug. It's much harder to treat it as it's much harder to get it really cleaned out well, it sometimes tunnels through the foot. My first go round with my roo it took over a year and multiple procedures to get it to finally heal, no fun for either of us. He was good for about a year and a half and then had bumblefoot again. Second time around I cleaned it out as normal, but then used sugardine to treat instead. Sugardine is used on horses for hoof infections and thrush.
I will attach a video on it below. Sugardine is made with plain white sugar mixed with betadine. Pack the wound with it, then cover and wrap. Since their feet are relatively small and not much is needed I just packed the wound with the sugar and then added 1-3 drops of betadine and let it wick in, worked better that way for me. I did this daily at the beginning, as time went on I was able to go to every other day. I covered the sugardine with Duoderm CGF bandages (you can get them on amazon - https://www.amazon.com/DUODERM-CGF-4x4-Box-187660/dp/B001V9JUVE/ref=sr_1_3?crid=IYP6SPAVMZ89&dchild=1&keywords=duoderm+cgf+4x4&qid=1612818908&sprefix=duoderm+,aps,624&sr=8-3) cut to size, they adhere to the skin but not the wound and hold it all in well. Cut to size you can get a lot of them out of a box of 5. Then wrap with vet wrap or co wrap bandaging. It also helps the wound to heal from the inside out, and not trap pockets of infection in there. It is not a quick process, it ended up taking about 5 months to get it to heal enough to leave bandages off. At first you may continue to see pus forming, so clean it out as best you can each time, reapply the sugardine, eventually the pus should stop forming. I don't have a before picture, but this is the foot after about 3.5 months of only cleaning and sugardine treatments (the dark part is just dirt-had just removed the wrap):
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You can see the original margins of the lesion outside the pink part, where the tissue has filled in, it was pretty large. Despite the length of time it took this was much quicker than his first bout and healed much better.
If this roo of yours is constantly having issues then once he's healed up you might want to consider birdie booties for him, to protect his feet.
http://www.hensaver.com/Birdy-Bootie.html
Lowering roosts and making sure he's not jumping down from things too high, since he's heavy, may also help.

This seems like what mine has!

 

[Themellowyellows]

Epson salt poulice helps with the pain and can take the place of soaking them. I still soak and put all my other ointments on them. She is not limbing.
If you need any advise let me know.
I've been dealing with bumblefoot 2 years now.

Thank you! Sorry your going through this too! Chicken business is hard!

 

[CCsGarden]

So checked 3 more of them today and each one has 1 foot that is healed or almost healed!!!

ignore my dirty nails! I've been working outside a lot

 

[Elspeth Dinsmore]

So checked 3 more of them today and each one has 1 foot that is healed or almost healed!!! View attachment 3935860View attachment 3935861View attachment 3935862
ignore my dirty nails! I've been working outside a lot

Wow! How exciting! You're doing a wonderful job, CC!

 

[CCsGarden]

So its been awhile since I've posted here. She was doing very well in the first post I posted here, but has gotten worse!?!

She still has this very big scab! Will it heal? Its been about 3months now!
Its more red in real life. The phone doesn't show the redness , almost transparent dried blood. I've kept it clean over the past months and ever since I started treating it.

Her other foot ,
She had some dried skin. Is this normal for them too shed their skin? I took the scab off and the fired skin and it didn't bleed there was new skin under it.

Before

After

 

[BigBlueHen53]

So on this chicken, you have been putting an Epsom salt poultice, and it's healed up this much? How are you preparing the poultice and how long are you leaving it one before changing it? It looks good!

 

[CCsGarden]

So on this chicken, you have been putting an Epsom salt poultice, and it's healed up this much? How are you preparing the poultice and how long are you leaving it one before changing it? It looks good!

Changing every two days. Yes, its healed and then got worse.