Bumblefoot?

[Duckmom32]

Is this the start of Bumblefoot in my 4 week old gosling? She just started limping yesterday. She’s still limping today but seems to be running around more with her sisters. Eating and drinking fine. They are still in a brooder type set up but we do take them out to run around the yard so maybe she stepped on something?

Also… we were feeding a duck specific food with niacin til about a week ago when we ran out and our local mill and TSC were out. So we’ve been feeding them flock raiser. Just got a new back of duck food so they will be getting niacin again. If it’s not Bumblefoot, could this have done anything to cause her leg pain?

 

[Goosebaby]

Flock raiser is fine, it’s what my geese were raised on.

That could be the beginning of bumblefoot, it also looks like a type of skin infection birds will sometimes get from walking around on dirty moist ground for prolonged periods, usually a weakened immune system is actually to blame.

Treatment is similar to bumblefoot, soak the feet once or twice daily in a warm Epson salt bath and apply neosporin to the bottom of the feet afterwards. If you can bandage the affected feet or make them a little booty to keep the feet dry treatment will be more effective.