Bumblefoot on Quail and I need help ASAP

[GoofingOff]

I will be separating all who are infected into a hospital pen with soft shavings to be treated, I think it may have been the type of bedding I used for them because I had switched out temporarily to a different brand of shavings and they seemed to be thicker and harder. Their pen is a raised pen that about half wire and half shavings and for some odd reason my girls always seem to chose to sleep out on the wire at night.

When removing the scab to treat one of the quail a sort of plug came out with it, was that the core?

I have never, in the 9 years of keeping birds, dealt with bumblefoot, not even in my largest chickens, and then it appears on my itty bitty quail!

 

[dc3085]

How many ounces do your quail weigh? After a certain size theyll get it no matter the bedding or wire. If youre birds are over 14 ounces, welcome to the part of raising of jumbos people never mention.

 

[chicapee]

I will be separating all who are infected into a hospital pen with soft shavings to be treated, I think it may have been the type of bedding I used for them because I had switched out temporarily to a different brand of shavings and they seemed to be thicker and harder. Their pen is a raised pen that about half wire and half shavings and for some odd reason my girls always seem to chose to sleep out on the wire at night.

When removing the scab to treat one of the quail a sort of plug came out with it, was that the core?

I have never, in the 9 years of keeping birds, dealt with bumblefoot, not even in my largest chickens, and then it appears on my itty bitty quail!

Yes that would be the core. How are they today?

 

[GoofingOff]

How many ounces do your quail weigh? After a certain size theyll get it no matter the bedding or wire. If youre birds are over 14 ounces, welcome to the part of raising of jumbos people never mention.

I do not have a scale to weigh them so I don't know if they are jumbos, if anything they are a mixed batch. They very in size and I only have about 2-3 out of the 10 that are much plumper than the other girls and none of them have bumblefoot.Even the one who was born with 2 crippled toes doesn't have it and I would assume he would have been more prone to it.

 

[GoofingOff]

Yes that would be the core. How are they today?

The one who's core I pulled seems to be doing better along with some of the others but the one who has had it the longest and one of the new cases don't have much improvement.

I think I have made a few tiny enemies as well, whenever I go up to the pen about 2 of the ones I have treated will run up and chitter/grumble at me in attempts to scare me away and peck at me when I reach in to change their food. While it is comical I will have to apologies to them with some garden trimmings and mealworms. I am in the dog house for sure this time!

 

[chicapee]

It sounds like you are doing your best for them and I hope they get through this.

 

[Invision]

I had two females that had bumble about 2 weeks ago. Saturday noticed blood everywhere (food dish, and nesting boxes). looked around the pen and didn't see any dead birds, then looked for the two hens but could not tell a difference... my only thought is that it ruptured and now they are fine... thought I was going to have to cull but guess not.

 

[GoofingOff]

Two of my girls refuse to get better and I cant find the core to eithers bumblefoot, does anyone have any other suggestions besides what I have been trying to do?

 

[dc3085]

That's pretty much it. I've dealt with it so much I don't deal with it anymore. Euthanasia is the only sure way to make sure the bird doesn't just get it again. Find out how much your birds weigh, it matters a lot to whether they'll get bumble or not.

 

[GoofingOff]

That's pretty much it. I've dealt with it so much I don't deal with it anymore. Euthanasia is the only sure way to make sure the bird doesn't just get it again. Find out how much your birds weigh, it matters a lot to whether they'll get bumble or not.

Well I will not be putting any of them down unless it gets really bad, that would be a bit drastic at this point. I am just trying to nip it before it spreads/gets any worse.