Bumblefoot

[newbyduckmom]

Just checked the patient and changed her dressing. The wound is draining some (probably to be expected), swelling is down a lot, and she's feisty today!

 

[willowbranchfarm]

She a lot happier I bet. You did great.

 

[Miss Lydia]

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You are now an encouragement to the rest of us that have never had or hope to never have to do it, Me only once and that was enough. But now you have it under your belt and will be able to help someone else who has to do it. So glad to hear how well she is doing and left you an egg thats a great sign...

 

[Amiga]

 

[KansasKid]

I got news for you....your crazy.......amiga is crazy.....miss lydia is crazy.... I'm crazy....and so is everyone else on this part of the forum....duck crazy that is!!!

Friends and family may look at you weird when your shoveling out a duck pen and hauling the crap to "their" garden, but they are secretly jealous that they don't have fun little creatures to watch and raise.

Congrats on the (knock on wood) successful bumblefoot surgery. I have been having problems not necessarily with bumble foot but with swollen toes due to cuts on the pads of the feet and the "heel"

 

[newbyduckmom]

Yep, that's me. Crazy ol' duck lady. Been crazy for animals before, it's never going to change - just gets expanded to new animals.

 

[xIndigoSkyx]

Made a gauze and ducktape shoe for Brownie when she had bumblefoot. It worked! She got all better. I lanced it all by myself and bathed her with the salts everyday put the weird antibiotics goo on it and she got all better! Best of luck!

 

[jynxster]

Now so terrified of the dreaded bumblefoot, Im such a wimp with anthing medical and animals and I work in a hospital. whats causes this how can I prevent it? And I am so proud of all of you fellow duck lovers. Got my first male today having to keep him seperate from my two females for now at night. I cant decide if he a horney booger or agressive. Regardless the girls have been together since birth and this guy is almost a year old and never been around any other ducks so? Tell me how to prevent bumblefoot and loved reading this posting and all the support.

 

[Amiga]

As far as I can tell, bumblefoot occurs when staph germs get into a cut on the foot, and the duck's iimmune system cannot get rid of it and so it begins to get encased in a chunky material but the infection progresses anyway. It can really hurt the duck's foot and eventually become a systemic and likely fatal infection. Ooof.

Staph germs (I reckon you know this!) are everywhere, just part of the world. So prevention is pretty much trying to keep ducks from having to walk on sharp, abrasive surfaces. Thorny spots, concrete, asphalt, sharp gravel, wire flooring, can all cut ducks' feet. Strong immune systems can handle many of the germs ducks come into contact with. So keeping them healthy, warm enough, and well rested and reducing stressors in their environment will help, too.

And, of course, spoiling them rotten with attention, bedtime stories, lullabies . . . . that all helps!

 

[destinduck]

Just wanted to say the few times I have had bumble foot ( it was already with them before I had them) I have did the operations of course to stop it but still within a year or two I always lost the bird. Anyone else also find this true. I dug just a little into this and it unfortunately seems a little like a terminal cancer.You can prolong their life by cutting on them oviously. But in the end they always die from this malady.For me anyway.