Feet Blackening And One Fell Off...help !!!!!!!!!!

[Tangerine farmer]

I just read the post by Hunnybunny and it was quite explicit... her lovely rooster first began losing his toes to blackening. Then his foot fell off... black and dead. Her origional post title sounded not too DRAMATIC... ("roo with foot problems") I though there must be someone who would have a good answer to this problem... so I am reposting before he dies.

Gangrene? Why does it die back? Lack of circulation? Please respond to her post! I brought it back up to the top of the list.

 

[auntieLisa]

Here is a shot in the Dark. Hope this helps


Femoral Head Necrosis - FHN

Extracted From:
A Pocket Guide to
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and
Disease
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By Paul McMullin

2004
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Introduction

A condition of chickens and turkeys that may be associated with several different bacterial infections e.g. staphylococci, E. coli, streptococci. FHN is the commonest infectious cause of lameness in broilers in the UK. Post-mortem studies of birds culled due to lameness and of birds found dead, indicated that 0.75% of all male broilers placed had lesions in the hip bone. Predisposing factors include immunosuppresive viruses such as Infectious Bursal Disease Virus and Chicken Anaemia Virus and non-infectious bone pathologies such as hypophosphaetamic rickets.
Signs

* Lameness.
* Use of a wing for support during walking and hip flexion.

Post-mortem lesions

* Degeneration of the epiphyses of long bones with thinning of the cortex and tendency to break when force is applied.

Diagnosis

Base on post-mortem lesions and isolation of a causative organism. Differentiate from synovitis, arthritis, spondylolisthesis.
Treatment

Antibiotic therapy in accordance with sensitivity is likely to be beneficial only for birds in the early stage of this process and may not be economically justifiable.
Prevention

Exclusion of floor eggs and dirty eggs from the hatchery. Careful attention to mineral and Vitamin D nutrition to avoid subclinical, especially hypophosphataemic, rickets.

 

[auntieLisa]

Try this one too; copy and past to your browser


http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/reprint/18/4/473.pdf

 

[imtc]

I had a parakeet that happened to. She actually lost both of her feet and I don't know why...they just turned black and eventually fell off. She did however do pretty well with just stubs (just couldn't perch) but I'd at least take it in for antiobiotics to rid any infection that could affect her blood supply. Mine lived for several years after losing her feet. Good luck.

 

[snowflake]

is it possible your bird got frost bite? I have read posts were frost bite made feet and combs turn black and fall off/

 

[Tangerine farmer]

Thank you very much for the replies. So, it could be his diet, frostbite (owner said no frost). Or something else bird related. Needs antibiotics. Thanks again.

 

[ultasol]

Frostbite wouldn't turn the foot dark and dry overnight. Perhaps frostbite occurred and it wasn't noticed for awhile.