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For bumblefoot, I'd use an old terrycloth rag to dry her foot semi-roughly after she's had a good 15 to 20 minute soak in a warm bath. Add Epsom salts to the bath if you can, as they're beneficial. Temperature of the bath should be hot, yet placing your entire hand and wrist in the water and leaving it there should not be painful. The heat will help to express the pus kernel. The terry rags nap helps snag any loose skin around the plug, making it easier to catch and pull it open without a scalpel or knife. Once open, and while wearing protective gloves (bumblefoot is septic), apply firm yet gentle pressure to excise the plug (like you'd squeeze out a pimple), getting all the cheesy goo out of the wound. Fill the resulting wound with triple antibiotic and fashion a sports-tape bootie over the wound to keep the worst of the dirt out. Change bandage every couple days and examine the wound for continued infection. Be mindful that while sometimes this can be corrected in one treatment, some birds require multiple attempts to clear the entire infection.
Keeping you and your feathered family in my prayers.
 
I touched on reproductive infection and its symptoms in post #32. Swelling and redness is a symptom.
A close up of the vent. The abdomen was not hard anymore.
 

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