Hen keeps sitting down //Help//

[fatimastic]

Because you have bumblefoot on many members of your flock, you might examine the height of the roost to the floor and what they're landing on. Lowering the distance between the roost and floor, even by a foot, will reduce the 'thud' upon impact and reduce the chance of foot and leg injury. You'll still need to treat them all for their bumblefoot until you've got them healed up. I'd work on the worst cases first, starting with the one that has it on both the pad of her foot AND her toe, those might be connected as one large pocket or they might be two individual pockets of pus. I don't know how much time you have in your day, so cannot advise you on whether to treat them all in the same day or not. With a 15 to 20 minute hot soak, plus the half hour of hands on work for the soaked bird, then a hot soak for another bird and hands on work, the hours would add up. You really cannot soak them all at the same time and do them justice with the hands on work of tugging scabs, squeezing out the pus etc, as the infection comes out much easier when you're working with their WARM flesh. You can however round-robin the treatment; take birds A & B today, birds C & D tomorrow, birds E & F the third day, on the fourth day, circle back to birds A & B, etc. Two birds a day would consume about two hours daily.
Still praying for ya'll.

The roost is designed to be up, we can't do anything about that. What should I place around the ladder to remove the hard landing?
Should I try to take the plug out of everyone after a few soaks? Instead of just taking it out a little by little and leaving thdm wounded? Can I put epsom salt in some cotton and tie it to their infected area to soften the plug?

I have soaked the worst one ( the one whom I started this thread for ) 3 times and yet the pus is still not coming out.
I tried again with tweezers today, only a little came out until it started bleeding. The pus is extremely hard now. I can't seem to squeeze anything other than blood.

How hot should the water be? I feel like I am not warming up the water enough.

 

[Ebony Rose]

Test the temperature of the water by placing your hand AND inner wrist in the water and holding it there for a couple of minutes. It should be hot but it should not hurt.
Depending upon what you have available in the area, you could put sand, leaves, grass clippings, sawdust, wood shavings etc., on the floor of the coop where your birds jump down, any of these will help soften the blow. You should attempt to remove the plug after each soaking. Put the epsom salts in the water, they need to be dissolved to be absorbed into the skin.
Wrap a sports tape bootie onto your original bird and leave it on for a couple days before soaking again, see if it starts to heal or fester.
Glad to see you're wearing protective gloves. That pus could cause sepsis.
Consider giving her a treat of sardines after her treatments so she associates all this painful attention with something extra special yummy.
Hang in there.

 

[fatimastic]

Test the temperature of the water by placing your hand AND inner wrist in the water and holding it there for a couple of minutes. It should be hot but it should not hurt.
Depending upon what you have available in the area, you could put sand, leaves, grass clippings, sawdust, wood shavings etc., on the floor of the coop where your birds jump down, any of these will help soften the blow. You should attempt to remove the plug after each soaking. Put the epsom salts in the water, they need to be dissolved to be absorbed into the skin.
Wrap a sports tape bootie onto your original bird and leave it on for a couple days before soaking again, see if it starts to heal or fester.
Glad to see you're wearing protective gloves. That pus could cause sepsis.
Consider giving her a treat of sardines after her treatments so she associates all this painful attention with something extra special yummy.
Hang in there.

I will place some leaves and sand in their coop.

The original hen, with severe bumblefoot, her pus is extremely hard. I soaked her again today and tried to take it out but it was nearly impossible to take it out without her bleeding a lot.

I took out a plug out from one foot of another hen. It came out easily with only 12mins of soaking. But only the bigger plug came out which was yellow in color and not black-ish. The other plug on the other foot was black and it didn't come out from one soak.
I feel like there is still some pus left in it? I was able to take it out without any bleeding. Her red skin was exposed under. I'll try to take some out tomorrow again.

 

[fatimastic]

Test the temperature of the water by placing your hand AND inner wrist in the water and holding it there for a couple of minutes. It should be hot but it should not hurt.
Depending upon what you have available in the area, you could put sand, leaves, grass clippings, sawdust, wood shavings etc., on the floor of the coop where your birds jump down, any of these will help soften the blow. You should attempt to remove the plug after each soaking. Put the epsom salts in the water, they need to be dissolved to be absorbed into the skin.
Wrap a sports tape bootie onto your original bird and leave it on for a couple days before soaking again, see if it starts to heal or fester.
Glad to see you're wearing protective gloves. That pus could cause sepsis.
Consider giving her a treat of sardines after her treatments so she associates all this painful attention with something extra special yummy.
Hang in there.

I tried taking out the plug again, but whenever I try to take it out, her foot starts to bleed, a lot.

 

[Ebony Rose]

Wrap that foot and give it a couple of days worth of rest with a sports tape bootie. You'll be able to determine if the foot is on the mend or if it's still festering with infection.

 

[fatimastic]

Wrap that foot and give it a couple of days worth of rest with a sports tape bootie. You'll be able to determine if the foot is on the mend or if it's still festering with infection.

Should I change her bedding everyday?

Not all the pus is out, should I still wait?

 

[fatimastic]

Wrap that foot and give it a couple of days worth of rest with a sports tape bootie. You'll be able to determine if the foot is on the mend or if it's still festering with infection.

Also, a few of her leg scales are loose and some came off.

 

[fatimastic]

Should I change her bedding everyday?

Not all the pus is out, should I still wait?

Also, a few of her leg scales are loose and some came off.

What do you think @6BeachChicks

 

[6BeachChicks]

Hi I didn’t get notifications from this thread for awhile. Otherwise I would have been here more often. Try to keep the bedding as clean as you can. About the leg scales, can you post pictures?

 

[fatimastic]

Hi I didn’t get notifications from this thread for awhile. Otherwise I would have been here more often. Try to keep the bedding as clean as you can. About the leg scales, can you post pictures?

On the top left side of the leg. Can you see them being a scaly?