Gander with swollen foot

[Chicken Wanter]

One of my chicken's feet is swollen. The leg is fine, but the part which connects the toes to the leg is blown up, and is softer than usual. Does anyone know what's wrong?

 

[Miss Lydia]

One of my chicken's feet is swollen. The leg is fine, but the part which connects the toes to the leg is blown up, and is softer than usual. Does anyone know what's wrong?

Might be bumble foot. go to the Emergency/disease thread and post there someone will help you but posting pics is the best way to get help. Have you cleaned her foot real good and looked for cuts/ splinters?
this is the thread I'm talking about

https://www.backyardchickens.com/f/10/emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures

 

[servpolice]

Ok ok ok loads of my geese had this condition and if i think about it now they were all ganders !
Well anyway they get this when they stand on a nail or something sharp and what i saw was when my ganders had a fight after the fight one was limping coz one kinda sprained it when trying to push the other gander and this condition can be bad news for younger geese and this infection eventually heals but looks like the foot will always look swollen by the looks at my ganders

 

[servpolice]

All what you can do is give him alot of food and leave him on grass because when they have this condition they sit all the time and lose alot of their body weight

 

[Chicken Wanter]

Should I bathe his foot or anything?

 

[RURU]

You can soak the foot in Epsom salts to clean it real good then spray it with vetimycine think I spelled that wrong. Hold it let it dry and then I put bag balm on it before putting them to bed at night. You can also soak and treat in the morning too.

 

[servpolice]

i heard that soaking the foot in salt only cleans it not cure it .But what i didnt say but what is hard is cut with a clean scin knife slowly around the swollen part and you will see hard jelly puss and carefully slice off it.
But i did this in a vet clinic so i think just use RURUs advice so it wont get worse

 

[RURU]

Just soaking the foot in ebsom salts will not cure the foot. It will clean the foot and make it a bit softer and then the vetimycin spray will be the antibiotic and the bag balm smeared all around the back of the sore and on top to keep it covered for the night in the pen.

Or you can get some Novasan which is a disinfectant that the vets use when operating on large animals and small and put that in warm water and soak the foot for 15 minutes 2 times a day. Novasan is also good to use to spray and clean the feet or any animals skin to cleans it.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Here is a link to another way to treat, I did this with my hen[chicken] and she hasn't bumble anymore. But be sure to get the colorless iodine it's the one that works.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/807777/bumblefoot-new-ideas-on-treatment-with-pictures

 

[servpolice]

Lots of my geese had this annoying growth and sometimes if you dont do anything to it ,it will change foot from normal to bending sideways but this happens rarley