Chicken Bumble foot ?!

[Haileyg123]

Anyone know what’s the best way to treat Bumble-foot? Without surgery? maybe it’s not Bumble-foot, I’m not sure?!

Here are some pictures below.

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

@Wyorp Rock @azygous @Eggcessive

 

[azygous]

Bumblefoot starts as a wound on the foot, and when bacteria, usually staph, colonizes it and infection sets in, the wound develops a black scab with a pus plug underneath.

Your photos show swelling signalling a possible foot injury but not bumblefoot. Soaking in warm Epsom salt can help heal it, and spraying the foot with Vetericyn may also help.

You might examine the foot more closely for signs of a thorn or sliver that may have embedded in the foot tissue and now has become all but invisible due to the tissue swelling around it. The warm soaks may help reveal it.

 

[Haileyg123]

Good to know, thank you!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

What's the bottom of the foot look like?

 

[Haileyg123]

I do not have a picture at the moment, but what I saw was a little scab-looking dot in the middle of the bottom of the foot.

 

[Haileyg123]

What's the bottom of the foot look like?

The dot is also a dark color.

 

[azygous]

That dot may contain a thorn or other foreign body. Soak the foot for twenty minutes to soften. Then poke a bit around the "dot" and see what comes out.

 

[Haileyg123]

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

Have you soaked her foot yet?