Chicks feet are bleeding

[cadiederich]

Wondering how I should care for my chick whose feet are bl

eeding. The bedding in the brooder keeps sticking to it

 

[kandyg_99]

Wash & Dry His Little Feet And Keep Him On A Towel Or Puppy Pad Until He Is Healed...

 

[azygous]

Those are some serious injuries. They need soaking in Epsom salt water and then treated with a topical antibiotic ointment. The ointment needs reapplying twice a day until completely healed.

A more pertinent question is how did these injuries happen? Is the brooder floor wire instead of a solid floor? Id there anything else in the brooder that would cut the feet up like that? Chickens, chicks included, can lose their feet from serious foot wounds.

 

[Three Little Bunnies]

Poor baby! Hope she is better soon.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

@azygous gives good advice. Curious, how old is the chick, what bedding are you using, and how often do you change it?

 

[rosemarythyme]

Wow that is severe. Looks like even a missing toenail? I agree with the epsom salt baths, and also we're going to need details on what's in the brooder (photos of set up would help) and what you're doing for maintenance and cleaning.

IIRC this type of burn looking injury is a combo of dirty + wet bedding.

 

[cadiederich]

Good morning! Thank you for all of your help. I have been giving him Epsom soaks twice a day now and applying Neosporin to his foot. I clean the bedding every couple of days. The bedding is hemp. The problem is that it sticks to his foot/sores. Perhaps I should try wood chips? The bottom of his first brooder was wire. He has been in a new one that just has a plain metal bottom with the hemp betting on top of it for the past five days. I do not remember if this injury occurred before or after the new brooder.

 

[azygous]

The wire floor of your first brooder is the likely reason for the chick's injuries. Chick feet are extremely delicate. Hemp shavings wouldn't cause injuries like that, or any injury I can picture.

The shavings sticking to the chick's feet is not a problem as long as you clean the feet once or twice a day and keep the ointment on them to provide a bacterial barrier.

A product I highly recommend to encourage new tissue growth is Vetericyn. It's in the feed store where the wound care products are shelved. Spray the feet with that after you wash and dry them. Let it dry and then apply the ointment.

 

[cadiederich]

Thank you! I will look for that

 

[Smiths show chickens]

the best thing ive used in the past four years that works is, UVl Callosan 30Ml. alot of that has to do with the bedding