- Jun 23, 2013
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Hi
I'm new to the forum but have had my ladies for about a year and a half now. Four of my 7 ladies have had Bumblefoot - inflammation of foot pad with a big black scab. I have yet to see the infection bubble up between the toes - I'm pretty on top of foot care and catch it too early for that. I have performed the "surgery" on all four and have found nothing underneath. No kernel, no yellow, black or white waxy tissue of any kind. Just pink or grey (easter egger) healthy looking tissue, under the plug. After soaking in epsom salts, removing the big black scab (plug) with a scalpel and covering with Vetericyn and bandages for a week or so, all of the chickens have gotten better, except for my EE, Rue and I don't know what to do.
When I remove the plug, there is nothing but obvious fleshy tissue, clearly inflamed, but nothing hard that I can feel, and I really massage the area, squeeze (hard) and feel around, but nothing comes out. Making matters more complicated is that she has a bumble on the joint of her little twisted toe, so I can only dig so deep without risking cutting something more serious. I don't know if I'm just not leaving the bandage on long enough and gets re-infected or if I need to get more invasive (don't know how I could and frankly don't feel good about it).
Has anyone else had this experience, of not finding something underneath, and if so, do I have any other options, if cutting yields nothing and it doesn't get better?
Photo attached (post surgery after a few days in bandages).
I should have taken photos during surgery, but only managed to get one after I took off her bandages (I was performing the surgery alone and had help with the camera later).
I'm new to the forum but have had my ladies for about a year and a half now. Four of my 7 ladies have had Bumblefoot - inflammation of foot pad with a big black scab. I have yet to see the infection bubble up between the toes - I'm pretty on top of foot care and catch it too early for that. I have performed the "surgery" on all four and have found nothing underneath. No kernel, no yellow, black or white waxy tissue of any kind. Just pink or grey (easter egger) healthy looking tissue, under the plug. After soaking in epsom salts, removing the big black scab (plug) with a scalpel and covering with Vetericyn and bandages for a week or so, all of the chickens have gotten better, except for my EE, Rue and I don't know what to do.
When I remove the plug, there is nothing but obvious fleshy tissue, clearly inflamed, but nothing hard that I can feel, and I really massage the area, squeeze (hard) and feel around, but nothing comes out. Making matters more complicated is that she has a bumble on the joint of her little twisted toe, so I can only dig so deep without risking cutting something more serious. I don't know if I'm just not leaving the bandage on long enough and gets re-infected or if I need to get more invasive (don't know how I could and frankly don't feel good about it).
Has anyone else had this experience, of not finding something underneath, and if so, do I have any other options, if cutting yields nothing and it doesn't get better?
Photo attached (post surgery after a few days in bandages).
I should have taken photos during surgery, but only managed to get one after I took off her bandages (I was performing the surgery alone and had help with the camera later).