Bumblefoot Issues

[Iva S.]

Hello,
So, I’ve had my chickens for just over a year and we’ve almost always had a bumblefoot issue. I’ve posted about it before and ended up scrapping the old coop and making a new one. The new one is bigger and has a solid floor (the main difference). This new one has been around for a few months now, but my babies keep getting bumble. I live in Texas and the dirt is normally pretty hard, so that could be a part of the problem. We periodically put soft dirt in there though and mix it around. Something else that has occurred to me is that maybe I’m not getting all of the infection out of the wound when I think I’m done dealing with it for each chicken. Has anyone else experienced this issue of at least one of the birds having bumblefoot? What can I do about this because it is REALLY annoying!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Sounds like you hit it yourself not quite getting it all out but have gone a long way to solving it have you gone through the reading on it here yet many good folks have done it to not come back

 

[pennyJo1960]

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071J1BVPK/?tag=backy-20

These can be very helpful

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

Bumblefoot can be very stubborn and take quite a while to resolve. That said, is there something in the environment that you might not have noticed that's contributing to the recurrence? Thorns, brambles? I had a hedge apple tree with huge thorns that was a problem for my girls (until I cut it down!).

 

[Iva S.]

Bumblefoot can be very stubborn and take quite a while to resolve. That said, is there something in the environment that you might not have noticed that's contributing to the recurrence? Thorns, brambles? I had a hedge apple tree with huge thorns that was a problem for my girls (until I cut it down!).

The only thing I can think of is that there might be some sharp rocks or maybe when sticks get in their run

 

[pennyJo1960]

I tend to think you did not get all the bumblefoot so it has spread within your flock

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Hello,
So, I’ve had my chickens for just over a year and we’ve almost always had a bumblefoot issue. I’ve posted about it before and ended up scrapping the old coop and making a new one. The new one is bigger and has a solid floor (the main difference). This new one has been around for a few months now, but my babies keep getting bumble. I live in Texas and the dirt is normally pretty hard, so that could be a part of the problem. We periodically put soft dirt in there though and mix it around. Something else that has occurred to me is that maybe I’m not getting all of the infection out of the wound when I think I’m done dealing with it for each chicken. Has anyone else experienced this issue of at least one of the birds having bumblefoot? What can I do about this because it is REALLY annoying!

Can you post some current photos of the bumblefoot and your coop/run? (inside of coop)

You may not be getting all the infection out. Sometimes it's hard to cure. If you feel like it's reoccuring with the same chicken(s) over and over, either try the punch as suggested by @penny1960 or if you have time to give a daily soak in tricide neo that may work.
Here's some links about using it:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...efoot-with-tricide-neo.1283554/#post-20729630
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/treating-bumblefoot-with-tricide-neo.513183/
https://ouroneacrefarm.com/2013/11/09/bumblefoot-treatment-tricideneo/

 

[FoodFreedomNow]

The only thing I can think of is that there might be some sharp rocks or maybe when sticks get in their run

I've read other threads about bumblefoot on here, too, where people suspect that it might be caused by an impact injury, like a chicken jumping from a roost to the floor...is that a possibility?

 

[Iva S.]

I've read other threads about bumblefoot on here, too, where people suspect that it might be caused by an impact injury, like a chicken jumping from a roost to the floor...is that a possibility?

I don’t think so, because when we redid the coop, we lowered the bars, made sure the entrance/exit was low enough, and there’s plenty of hay in there to soften their landing

 

[Iva S.]

Can you post some current photos of the bumblefoot and your coop/run? (inside of coop)

You may not be getting all the infection out. Sometimes it's hard to cure. If you feel like it's reoccuring with the same chicken(s) over and over, either try the punch as suggested by @penny1960 or if you have time to give a daily soak in tricide neo that may work.
Here's some links about using it:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...efoot-with-tricide-neo.1283554/#post-20729630
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/treating-bumblefoot-with-tricide-neo.513183/
https://ouroneacrefarm.com/2013/11/09/bumblefoot-treatment-tricideneo/

I’ll look into those. I don’t have pics of the bumblefoot, but I do have pics of the coop/run:

(It may not seem like there’s enough ventilation from this pic, but there is, also, sorry the walls are dirty, oops)

Their run isn’t very large, but we can’t let them free roam, and by city ordinances, we can’t expand, otherwise we’ll be violating a thing where the run can’t be within however many feet of others’ houses.