Chicken's Foot Pad with Small Indent/"Hole

[staceyj]

And store brand is fine.

 

[DesertBird]

Pain meds are toxic to birds.
All the “caines”

Ah, alright, thank you. I'd read that about the -caines but forgot pain meds were a -caine. Thanks for warning me!

 

[MissChick@dee]

Looks like you caught it early. Good job!

 

[DesertBird]

Looks like you caught it early. Good job!

Aha, thank you! Here's to hoping it heals as quickly as it was found. If not for her limping a bit and managing to get the plug out herself, I don't know if I would've caught it so early. Suppose that's enough of her wild, one-bird adventures.

 

[DesertBird]

Didn't want to do anything without checking - still pretty early here so I'm heading out to get the vet tape and all that in a bit, but is it safe to use something like dawn dish soap to lightly soap up her foot around it? How do you "squeeze"? I don't want to accidentally make it go into her bloodstream or anything. Also, we recently got/still are getting some of the rain from Hurricane Rosa (which I'm assuming is partly what caused it? we usually keep everything dry easily, being in a desert and all, but it was all muddy and gross the past few days and now she has bumblefoot) so everything's still a bit gross. Would it be best to put her in her own pen somewhere we can assure is dry to avoid the tape getting wet? Do you just put the antibiotic ointment on directly or should it be put on like, a cottonball and stuck under her foot under the tape? Sorry for all the questions!

 

[staceyj]

Didn't want to do anything without checking - still pretty early here so I'm heading out to get the vet tape and all that in a bit, but is it safe to use something like dawn dish soap to lightly soap up her foot around it? How do you "squeeze"? I don't want to accidentally make it go into her bloodstream or anything. Also, we recently got/still are getting some of the rain from Hurricane Rosa (which I'm assuming is partly what caused it? we usually keep everything dry easily, being in a desert and all, but it was all muddy and gross the past few days and now she has bumblefoot) so everything's still a bit gross. Would it be best to put her in her own pen somewhere we can assure is dry to avoid the tape getting wet? Do you just put the antibiotic ointment on directly or should it be put on like, a cottonball and stuck under her foot under the tape? Sorry for all the questions!

I could direct message you a video but you must have that setting blocked. I tried and it wouldn’t go through.

 

[staceyj]

Squeeze=like popping a zit.
Yes get an old clean wash cloth and soap it up and really scrub her foot (and leg while you’re at it).
Rinse well.
I use a gauze pad over the wound, under the bandage.
It keeps out the dirt.
If you use vet wrap and plenty of ointment you don’t really need to isolate her from her companions. The bandage will keep the wound clean.

 

[staceyj]

Some say bumblefoot comes from a bruised pad (jumping off the roost etc. )
So you might want to evaluate that, I’m pretty sure mine get it from a combination of free ranging and stepping on pine cones and other natural debris they come upon and their breed.

My two girls that get it periodically are both Welsummers, my other breeds never get it. They all live and walk and forage in the exact same environment.

 

[DesertBird]

Squeeze=like popping a zit.
Yes get an old clean wash cloth and soap it up and really scrub her foot (and leg while you’re at it).
Rinse well.
I use a gauze pad over the wound, under the bandage.
It keeps out the dirt.
If you use vet wrap and plenty of ointment you don’t really need to isolate her from her companions. The bandage will keep the wound clean.

Okay, thank you so much for all the help! I'll get her taken care of ASAP. The video would be greatly appreciated; I fixed my message perms, sorry about that. And yeah, luckily it's not her perch; we have some of those thicker, soft rags stuck tightly on so they don't slide but the birds can still perch comfortably - haven't had an issue with them with her or any of my other birds before. Seems like she might've gotten it cut a little bit on a thorn or something (we have those nasty burrs, a rose bush, AND a lemon tree which she wanders around endlessly and is the only one who does so, so that's where I'm assuming she got it from) and then the mud and everything from the recent rain just had perfect bumblefoot conditions for the poor thing.

 

[staceyj]

Okay, thank you so much for all the help! I'll get her taken care of ASAP. The video would be greatly appreciated; I fixed my message perms, sorry about that. And yeah, luckily it's not her perch; we have some of those thicker, soft rags stuck tightly on so they don't slide but the birds can still perch comfortably - haven't had an issue with them with her or any of my other birds before. Seems like she might've gotten it cut a little bit on a thorn or something (we have those nasty burrs, a rose bush, AND a lemon tree which she wanders around endlessly and is the only one who does so, so that's where I'm assuming she got it from) and then the mud and everything from the recent rain just had perfect bumblefoot conditions for the poor thing.

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