ruby13326
Chirping
- May 28, 2017
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I bought this chicken like this, long story but I have a big heart and since I have cured bumblefoot in the past thought I could cure this. I tried the bumblefoot thing sans antibiotic, soaking in chlorahexadine, bagbalm, wrap. It wasn't working. I brought her to the vet, (a new vet, my old vet retired) who put her on an antibiotic and silvadene cream with instructions to debrid the wound as best I could so the silvadene cream could get to the tissue. Well, that didn't work and her feet got worse and swelled up with yellow pus. She switched antibiotics and we stopped the debridement and went to blue kote, that wasn't working. The vet told me the only way to really know what antibiotic would work would be to stop the antibiotic for 5 days, then get a culture. So I did and by the 5th day her feet are really swollen and smell and are warm to touch. My old vet had given me baytril to use to cure my bumblefoot and even though it was expired I have started using that, washing her feet each day, blue kot and bag balm and wrap. Day 6 we are maintaining, not getting worse, not really better. She is a lovely bird, I think a black austrolop, and still has spirit and is eating well. One other odd point, she has infection on the left side of her face, she gets scabs hear her eye, nose and ear. I pulled a scab from her nostril and it had yellow pus on it. The scabs are brown and crusty. She is also anemic, her face is very pale as is her comb. the culture shold come back this week. I just needed to post this because I thought there was someone else out there who has gone through this. She does not have chicken POX. She cannot walk really, uses her wings to help push her along. Any ideas would be helpful. She gets a probiotic in her water, and yogurt, spinnach( iron), strawberries, tomatoes, softened catfood for protein and beans. she has a companion chicken and both are living in the house. Any ideas would be helpful. Thanks.