Help identifying issue with 10-day old chick”s feet

ChickMeOutWA

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Hi, looking for help identifying what’s wrong with my 10 day old Salmon Favorelle chick that I bought for a local farm (3rd year buying chicks from them: they have always been healthy with no issues before). The feet and end of the feet have a mass of growth that I thought were dried poop but it wouldn’t fall off after running them under warm water. Bumble foot pictures always have most of the growth in the center/palm, and also more grown adult chickens or pulleys, but these are more on the end and a chick barely 2 weeks old. So confused what this might actually be. Tried google image searching to no avail…. Thank you!
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The balls on the toenails could be mud balls as well, and may need to be removed carefully. Some methods found that workmare placing the chick in a shallow container of warm water and some small gravel to walk around in for an hour. Keep the chick warm, and many say that method will get the mud balls off without having to use needle nose pliers. Then make sure the chick is kept on dry bedding. The poor chick sure was kept in nasty conditions, probably mud mixed with poo and feed that can scald the feet. Wet litter and droppings can scald feet. It is amazing that happened in 10 days. Here is a thread on mud ball removal on quail:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/poo-mud-balls-on-toes.1184064/
 

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