Foot infection, do I need to worry about this

[Aylesbury]

Hi,

This is my duck's foot and her middle finder is swollen as seen in the picture. She is otherwise fine herself and there seems to be no problem with her walking.

Is this something I need to take her to vet for? Should I do something myself or just wait?

Many thanks in advance

Huseyin

PS: She is an 11 month old Aylesbury duck.

 

[iwiw60]

What you have there is known as bumblefoot. Your feathered friend needs help asap. Here's a page that will walk you through the steps...not pretty, but needs correcting as soon as possible!

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/search?q=bumblefoot

 

[Aylesbury]

Thank you very much. Just booked the vet and we will take her in a few hours. Thanks again and have a great day

 

[iwiw60]

Thank you very much. Just booked the vet and we will take her in a few hours. Thanks again and have a great day

Keep us informed and let us know how it goes...good luck!

 

[Amiga]

By the way, if you catch bumblefoot early, no surgery is required. A vet is always best, by the way. But here is one way you can handle it without cutting - and that makes it a lot easier on everyone. Advanced cases are different.

This was posted by Haunted55

On July 1st, I found one of my Pekin ducks with what I would consider a bad case of Bumblefoot. Both feet were involved and I'm ashamed to say, the only way I found it was she was limping. One foot had 7 and the other had 3. I was able to grab her and bring her into the house and put her into a warm bath to clean and soak. Two water changes later and softened feet, all I had time to do was paint the bumbles with colorless iodine, grabbed the wrong stuff, and put her into a dog crate in my house until I could get everything ready to operate and get them gone. Did I mention the thought of this scared me half to death?

Sad to say it took 6 days before i was able to get everything together and someone to help out with the 'cure'. The following pictures are what we found after the bath we gave before the planned surgery to remove these things.




















As can be seen, there really wasn't much to operate on, even though I was prepared to do just that. No matter how much squeezing or prodding or soaking, there just wasn't anything more to come out, it was all on the scabs that were covering the sores. The swelling was down from the 'marbles' I saw when I first found them. I poured betadine over the ones I had opened and painted the ones that I hadn't again with the iodine and put her back into her crate with clean bedding.

the next pictures are of the same Pekin and anothe duck, Dottie the Mallard, who was also found limping.












As can be seen in the first two pictures, the bumbles have been dramatically reduced on the Pekin with just the iodine application and the smaller ones totally gone. The last four pictures are of the Mallard who is still under going the iodine applications.

As can be seen, this is how the left and right foot look tonight on the Pekin duck. The heels being the worst are still showing infection and need for more treatment. tomorrow, I will again give a bath and pull/cut out the scabbing and treat with straight iodine this time. These spots are now flat or as flat as they should be considering the part of the foot they are on. I will still touch up the places that had the spots before as well.

 

[Aylesbury]

Updatee vet cleaned the site a day then carved out the infected tissue. We were given iodine solution and some antibiotics to apply to the site so finger crossed. On the plus side she enjoyed her day out at the vet and made a very messy drop on at the surgery too thanks a lot to all that replied

 

[Miss Lydia]

Updatee vet cleaned the site a day then carved out the infected tissue. We were given iodine solution and some antibiotics to apply to the site so finger crossed. On the plus side she enjoyed her day out at the vet and made a very messy drop on at the surgery too thanks a lot to all that replied

She's precious, hope you see complete recovery.

 

[iwiw60]

GREAT NEWS!!