I Can't Get This Right...

[Quatie]

Another update:

No surgery needed! Yatatayay!!!! Her feet are improving quickly now!

But when I got home from work this afternoon, she was LIMPING. And it's her right leg, which is the almost healed foot.

C'mon, Figgy! Do me a favor, will ya, and stop getting hurt!

I think it's just a sprain. Nothing is swollen or hot. She lets me manipulate the joints. Not sure how she did it. She's in a crate on a soft, cushy towel with food and water within reach.

Just goes to show that no matter how much I try to get their coop and run to be duckie friendly, they will find ways to get hurt.

Gaah, indeed!

That is great to hear that she won't need surgery and are improving!

Unfortunately ducks love to make holes... Holes they can trip in and hurt themselves. And so many other reasons they can do something silly and injure themselves. It could even be another one of your females mounting another female. I think my female runner hurt her leg because of my female Cayuga. If it is not too much of a limp it should heal quickly without any treatment.

 

[Aunt Angus]

That is great to hear that she won't need surgery and are improving!

Unfortunately ducks love to make holes... Holes they can trip in and hurt themselves. And so many other reasons they can do something silly and injure themselves. It could even be another one of your females mounting another female. I think my female runner hurt her leg because of my female Cayuga. If it is not too much of a limp it should heal quickly without any treatment.

Oh, my girls are very frisky! They mount each other all the time. That very well could be what happened.

Marmalade, my Welsh Harlequin, had a worse limp a couple of months ago. I kept her in a crate overnight, and she was fine the next day. I'm hoping that's what happens here.

 

[Quatie]

Oh, my girls are very frisky! They mount each other all the time. That very well could be what happened.

Marmalade, my Welsh Harlequin, had a worse limp a couple of months ago. I kept her in a crate overnight, and she was fine the next day. I'm hoping that's what happens here.

Hopefully it will be the same here, and she will bounce back

 

[Aunt Angus]

Well, it's been a month. We're *almost* there!

Marmalade's limp was gone by day 2. She's just clumsy, I guess.

Figgy's feet look so much better! There is still some swelling, but the scabs have shrunk, and they are no longer black. I'm still doing the Baytril and the nightly tricide neo soaks. I think we're out of the woods now... maybe... I hope...

 

[Quatie]

Well, it's been a month. We're *almost* there!

Marmalade's limp was gone by day 2. She's just clumsy, I guess.

Figgy's feet look so much better! There is still some swelling, but the scabs have shrunk, and they are no longer black. I'm still doing the Baytril and the nightly tricide neo soaks. I think we're out of the woods now... maybe... I hope...

That is a relief that Marmalade had just a minor injury.

That is really good news about Figgy too!

 

[Aunt Angus]

That is a relief that Marmalade had just a minor injury.

That is really good news about Figgy too!

I love my ducks, but staying up late to soak duckie feel is getting old. Especially since she poops on me at least once a night.

 

[Quatie]

I love my ducks, but staying up late to soak duckie feel is getting old. Especially since she poops on me at least once a night.

Yeah. My first time treating bumblefoot, I learned it is a great day when you don't get pooped on by a duck.

Sometimes for your sanity, skip a night of soaking. It won't hurt to miss one night. It helps to have a night to recoup.

 

[Aunt Angus]

Ugh. Now another of my chickens has bumblefoot! I have been teting really really hard to keep everything clean and free of things that might injure them. I clean it twice a day. I take out soggy bedding and replace it daily. I even made their pasture substrate super soft (I could walk barefoot out there if I wanted to).

They get great food and lots of forage time on a pasture planted with special organic seed mix specifically for chickens.

Why can't I dooooooo this?????

 

[cavemanrich]

Ugh. Now another of my chickens has bumblefoot! I have been teting really really hard to keep everything clean and free of things that might injure them. I clean it twice a day. I take out soggy bedding and replace it daily. I even made their pasture substrate super soft (I could walk barefoot out there if I wanted to).

They get great food and lots of forage time on a pasture planted with special organic seed mix specifically for chickens.

Why can't I dooooooo this?????

Is it possible that the bacteria causing bumble-foot is somewhat higher on your grounds??? Since you have been dealing with it lately,,, and bacteria spreads/grows/multiplies
This just crossed my mind now... Maybe a preventative application of Blukote to all your duck, and chicken foot bottoms may work. Get the spray version and liquid with brush. Then determine which works better at applying.
Once all your flock is cured,,,,, then Blucote may be discontinued