HELP!!! Swollen foot, NOT Bumblefoot!

[Eggcessive]

So yep and I don't know how to help my dad's rooster

Can you start a new thread and provide some details and pictures? Here is where to do that and click on the green box:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/emergencies-diseases-injuries-and-cures.10/

 

[dalamy39]

We have a rooster that was given to us about 4 months ago. His legs and feet were swollen and had scales that were falling off. We found out he had leg mites so I washed his feet with soap and water and removed as much dirt as I could with a cuticle brush. Dried his feet then put Vaseline on his legs and the top of his feet every third day and his feet went back to normal. His feet did not look as bad as your Daisy's but I have seen pic on the internet that look pretty bad. I know it's too late to help Daisy but maybe it will help others in the thread. I also spray their coop and roost with a mixture of 1 cup cooking oil, 2 cups water and 1 tbsp dawn dish soap shaking frequently while spraying. Or a mixture of 2 cups water, 1 cup apple cider vinegar a 2 tsp neem oil. The last one you can actually spray on your chickens.

 

[almostnadine]

I have had a couple of roosters that had bumblefoot. If caught early it looks a lot different inside and there is no hard "core". We attempted surgery on one and inside found some pus and some stringy weird stuff that you knew wasn't right. It was impossible to get it all out so after two attempts took him to a vet. The vet prescribed a course of clavicillian and after care with bandages on his foot, they also recommended keeping him separate at night and also limiting his activity for part of the day - so he wasn't running around on a hurt foot. Also bumblefoot can be infectious and is most likely to spread on the roosts they said. They said if his foot didn't clear up that they may need to do surgery - the antibiotics worked. My other guy that got it again was caught early so I just took him straight to the vet and again was prescribed clavicillian and again because it was early and there was no hard core that was all he needed along with aftercare including keeping his foot bandaged and limiting his activity for part of the day as well as separate sleeping quarters. So if when you inspect your chickens foot and don't feel a hard lump in there you may not need to do surgery and in fact may make it worse. My vet said if you don't feel the lump it's better to start on antibiotics and wait at least few days and you should start seeing some signs of improvement and if not reinspect and reasses but you also want to keep the foot bandaged and antibiotics at that level too because that little scab is a cut. You also want to keep their weight off of it so try to limit their activity- I did this by letting them out of where they were sleeping later in the day than the other chickens. Unfortunately for one one of my boys this did upset the order of things and he was knocked off top spot, something the new number one likes to remind him of every once in awhile.
Hopefully this helps someone who doesn't have access to a vet. I post the following to help someone who can't access a vet and post it only as what happened for my chickens and what they were prescribed. I am in no way a vet nor super experienced with chickens. I have a flock of about 60 with 4 roosters and a few different breeds we have been raising for about the last year and a half.
You can buy clavicillian from some pharmacies in Canada and I guess there is a calculator online to figure out the correct dose by weight. I don't know the weight of my roosters but one is pretty big definitely over 5lbs somewhere around 7 lbs and he was given 375mg every 12 hours the other is a bit smaller but still probably between 4-5lbs he was given 250mg every 12 hours. They also were both prescribed pain medication of carpofen I can't remember the dose.

 

[Ella_michele08]

I have an Ameraucana that is almost a year old. She has always had issues since she was young, seems to have been a little bow legged and always rested more than the others but ate and drank and forages normally. Her foot became swollen some months back and I took care of it the first time with antibiotics, it seemed to have helped. Now the foot as well as the leg is more and more swollen daily. Seems to do a little better after an epsom salt soak, and I have started giving her vitamin B supplement. There is no corn on the bottom of the foot as is the tell tale sign of Bumblefoot, and someone else suggested Gout. Anyone have any idea what this could be? How else I could treat her? Or if I am doing the right things? I'm at a loss, this being my first flock, and feeling like a bad chicken mom. Lost one to Marek's, although this is nothing like that was. I need HELP please! Suggestions???

I am having the same problem and idk what to DO!!! And it is dark in between the toe kinda strange. But no scab

 

[Eggcessive]

I am having the same problem and idk what to DO!!! And it is dark in between the toe kinda strange. But no scab

Are both feet the same?

 

[Ella_michele08]

Are both feet the same?

Well when I first got her before un duing the bandage it looked like maybe the one was a tiny swollen until I undid the bandage and soaked her feet in Epsom salt, now it's just the one that's really swollen. But she still dares ro get on the perches when I put her back ,but when I got her she was laying in the nesting box and didn't want to stand up, idk maybe the Epsom salt helped! I'll have to check her today

 

[Ella_michele08]

Are both feet the same?

This was her bad foot last night. The other one isn't quite like this foot. But have a tiny bit of bumble so I have it loosely rapped. Bc idk if I cut off the circulation or anything

 

[2ndTink]

This was her bad foot last night. The other one isn't quite like this foot. But have a tiny bit of bumble so I have it loosely rapped. Bc idk if I cut off the circulation or anything

The dark spot on the side of her foot, is that a bruise or blukote?

 

[Ella_michele08]

The dark spot on the side of her foot, is that a bruise or blukote?

The side of her foot is definitely blukote. But between the toe is her foot. I cut a tiny and only blood came so I put triple antibiotic and pad and wrapped it but today its still there but red, and her foot is still swollen

 

[Ella_michele08]

This is her really bad foot today. It worked for once