Bumble Foot...sugar/iodine mixture

[Chickengal505]

I personly have never had a case of bumble foot but i hear it needs "surgery" sending good (((vibes)))




-Holly W.

 

[Causin Chaos]

Well today I checked her foot and she is doing great so I let her go back with her flock! She is one happy hen.

 

[Chickengal505]

OMG im so stuped sounding just then yaaaaa i didn't read all the way though....

 

[sammi77]

My girl has had a bad case of Bumblefoot, but being in the Uk, I've found it very difficult to get hold of most of the items mentioned.
I had been bathing it in Epsom salts and finally took a blade to the scab which I have to say wasnt very big, but the lump was growing steadily.

I got myself a craft scalpel and cut into the top of her foot. You could almost see the cheesy stuff trying to push its way out.

After the first small cut, there was blood

which worried me, but hubby held her whilst I ran the foot under warm water running tap. All the while i have a mixture of salvon wound wash and tcp and water so I am washing the cut.

Immedaitely you could see the 'corn kernal/scrambled egg looking stuff

I had to make the insision bigger and dug pieces out in small clumps. I could not find this 'plug'. I was starting to panic as I didnt know what this was doing to my poor girl, but I couldnt have left it

After a while working on the toe, i started to see flesh and could put my manicure scissor blade through the original scab hole and see it through the insision hole. There was one really stubborn bit around the original site, and Im still not sure if I got it all out.

I flushed the wound, covered in Germolene,and padded and wrapped with a bandage and Vetrap. Im unsure as to whether it should have been stitched or left open.

I set her down and she is walking on it, but there is a limp there as you can imagine.
I will change the dressing first thing in the morning and really dont know how its going to pan out for her.

She is still hobbling about, and being a large bird is sitting down alot too. Just hope shes gonna be ok