Bumblefoot help please

jeepone

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Aug 1, 2020
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Our 1 year old hen started limping earlier this week. I picked her up and could feel/see a swollen area. I had seen a few things about bumblefoot so read about it and that we should remove the black scab-like place. It was only 1-2 mm x 1-2 mm. So we soaked her in Epsom salts and was able to peel the scab off. We've been spraying with veteracyin after soaking twice a day.
Last night we were looking on you tube and found videos where people were pulling large hard pieces out of the swollen area. So today we soaked her and using tweezers were fairly easily able to "pull out" a piece from under where the original place was. But it in no way looked like what we saw in the videos. We tried to see if there was more inside that would come out, but could not.
I'm attaching pix we took of her foot just before we applied neosporin and wrapped the food.
 

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I've only had to deal with bumblefoot once. There still healing from it. From what I've seen if you catch it early you can soak it in Epsom salt every day for 15 min and that might heal it up. None of my birds had a kernel in their foot, but the scabs were big. If it gets another black scab then the infection is still there. If not the infection is gone and you just need to keep it clean and keep putting neosporin on it. I change the wrap about every 2-3 days.
 

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