Chicken with a fat foot

[bruceha2000]

It is good that you now know what to look for and can catch it before it gets serious like Catherine. I think you need to find out why you are getting so many birds with bumble-foot. Knocking on wood, I've had chickens now for 6 years and have never had one with it.

 

[Moomin2]

It is good that you now know what to look for and can catch it before it gets serious like Catherine. I think you need to find out why you are getting so many birds with bumble-foot. Knocking on wood, I've had chickens now for 6 years and have never had one with it.

Yes I agree. This weekend is going to be spent refurbishing our coop and run. I think that there are too many hard surfaces in the coop and compacted ground outside. The coop is raised and quite small with raised nest-boxes and square perches rather than round, so I think they're having to do too much jumping and their feet are being knocked on hard edges. We are going to put shock-absorbing mats down and change the perches and the ramp they use to go outside. Catherine is by far the biggest so she's suffered the most. Hopefully the others will be OK.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would put a dressing on her foot to keep it clean. Clean the wound with betadine or Vetericyn. Put plain Neosproin ointment/triple antibiotic, etc on the wound thickly, and fold up a gauze pad, then wrap in strips of vet wrap. Many of my chickens get mild bumblefoot since there is soil mixed with a lot of small rocks coming to the surface. I do not do surgery very often. At first I did, but now do not unless they limp or there is an abscess with redness and swelling.

Here is a link with a video of dressing a bumblefoot wound after surgery:
https://www.hobbyfarms.com/how-to-treat-bumblefoot-in-chickens-3/