bumble head?! 8 week pullet

[sisterwives]

she's 8 weeks old. We got her at 7 weeks, and yes when she was with the seller she was out with 2 roo's.

 

[heartsizedfarm]

What's a bumble?

 

[sisterwives]

A bumble foot is when a chicken gets a small boo boo, generally undetectable, on their foot. A staphylococcus infection can occur since the foot has poor circulation so a painful lump develops in the foot. You can YouTube surgeries to see how chicken owners remove the lump, kinda like a corn.

 

[Berry Chechy]

ewwwww

 

[heartsizedfarm]

How do you prevent it?

 

[sisterwives]

Bumble foot happens, no real rhyme or reason. We free range, super clean grass rotated pastures. Good news is, its only happened twice for us.

 

[Duckopolis]

Interesting!

 

[pwand]

This mornings picture! Amazing! I'm convinced it was a bumble! But on her head!!!

I would say shes been pecked on and it infected. You could clean it up with peroxide and put an antibiotic ointment on it. I got a hen that was like that at the base of her tail on her back, it was so crusted and full of poop. They were shipped here in a small crate crowded. It took a month to get it to heal. Other birds will peck on them.

 

[Eggcessive]

Pus solidifies in chickens to those little cheese-like cores. This is what happens in bumblefoot, also. She probably had an infected peck wound or tiny cut which is how bumblefoot occurs.