bumblefoot or not

[bertiesmum]

We do have mico plasma carriers in the flock. However other than the odd sneeze we haven't any other symptoms. Do you think this is something we should worry about?

 

[neophyte17]

Neophyte17 - I'm not sure how useful it would be to try tricideneo again. The whole packet should last a month. Did you soak it daily for a month? Did you use distilled water (I think normal saline is also okay too, i forget now). If you did mix it and use it properly and soaked daily, then maybe it's not going work for yours. Though I'm surprised, because it looks pretty mild.

Dawg53 - I have never soaked more than once a day and it worked. Always. Took about 3 or 4 days for one case, and several weeks for the worst one. All of my cases looked worse (larger) than the OP's photo. As to the stress of soaking, for relatively tame back yard birds, I think this is not stressful. The OP's birds sound pretty tame to me. They sit on her lap, so I don't think it holding them for 5 minutes will freak them out. Having a foot cut into sounds a lot more stressful to me.

Anyway, good luck (Neophyte and Bumblebee).

I used distilled water. It didnt stress them out to soak. It almost seemed as they enjoyed it. I would pet them the whole time

 

[neophyte17]

I am almost tempted to cut the surface of the scab and then soak in the tricide neo. Anyone else done that? Maybe that way the medicine gets to the infection quicker without having to completely cut a whole in his foot?

 

[bertiesmum]

My dad pulled the two lumps off of Pat's feet the other day and it holes where it looked as though he had got the root out of something. He has kept them clean and they have healed up quite nicely now.

 

[neophyte17]

Well I ordered the tricide neo and will try soaking before I attempt to cut it out. I am worried that I wont do it right and it will be worse

 

[Janet Pesaturo]

Good luck, and keep us posted.

 

[neophyte17]

Help with measuring please. If i want to make it last longer, how many tablespoons per quart? I am horrible at this measuring thing. Good reason I dont cook by recipe. Lol

 

[Janet Pesaturo]

The concentration does not have to be that exact. It's good enough to pour the powder onto a piece of paper, and visually divide it into 4 portions. If you want, you can measure the volume by seeing how many teaspoons come in the packet, and then divide that by 4, but the human eye is good enough.

Take one of those 4 portions, and dissolve it in a quart of distilled water. Shake well until it's all dissolved. Sometimes it's hard to dissolve it all, so I let it sit for 15 minutes and then shake again. That usually does it. It's okay if there are a few little particles undissolved, but you want the bulk of it dissolved.

Put the remaining 3 portions of powder back into the packet, squeeze the air out, and close it tightly. Next time you mix a quart, you'll divide into 3 piles and dissolve 1 pile in a quart.

If you have a scale that's accurate enough for small quantities, you could weigh it out, instead of doing it visually. I think the full packet contains 22 grams. A quarter of that would be 5.5 grams, so measure out 5-6 grams.

 

[neophyte17]

Thank you for the info. Very helpful. I donf think B will mind the daily soaks. They are lap roosters and love being petted. When I soaked his foot before in epsom salt, I would pet him all the while and he would start to fall asleep.
Here's OP falling asleep on my lap. I am going to double chech his feet to see

 

[Janet Pesaturo]

Yeah, I really don't think soaking is stressful, your roo will be fine. It's painless, and like you, I pet mine (and sing to them!) when I soak. At the end I give them a treat of scratch.