Hello all. This foot actually belongs to a nearly-2-month-old turkey. I've named her Goose.
Anyway, about 1 or 1 1/2 weeks ago I was soaking her bum for vent gleet. As I was drying her off I found this:
My very first thought was that it was bumblefoot. But it wasn't a scab and upon further inspection, it was obvious something was sticking out and HARD. Like..rock hard. I don't know how hard pus kernels are, but are they rock hard? There was light bleeding around the opening but zero oozing of other liquids and no swelling. I wrapped it with neosporin, gauze, and vet wrap. Next morning I checked on it and then the toe was obviously bruised and swollen. So to me it seemed more like it was an exposed bone break/dislocation or something. I have no idea how it happened if that's what it is.
After a few days of neosporin and wrapping not helping, I decided to treat as bumble in case it WAS bumble...so I switched to PRID and wrapping. After 2 days of that it looked like this:
Rewrapped with PRID for another 2 days and check again. Same color but it seemed to be smaller. Thinking I was on the right track, I removed what I thought was going to be a top layer of pus, but it turned out to be more of a yellow-y scab. The tissue beneath was red and spongy. No pus anywhere, but it started bleeding again.
So now I've rewrapped her toe with PRID and intend to keep doing that for a while to see what happens. She isn't, and never was, limping on the foot. I was wondering if anyone can tell me if I'm just nuts and it IS a bumble? How hard is the bumble kernel usually? Am I correct in thinking it's NOT actually bumble?
Thank you.
Anyway, about 1 or 1 1/2 weeks ago I was soaking her bum for vent gleet. As I was drying her off I found this:
My very first thought was that it was bumblefoot. But it wasn't a scab and upon further inspection, it was obvious something was sticking out and HARD. Like..rock hard. I don't know how hard pus kernels are, but are they rock hard? There was light bleeding around the opening but zero oozing of other liquids and no swelling. I wrapped it with neosporin, gauze, and vet wrap. Next morning I checked on it and then the toe was obviously bruised and swollen. So to me it seemed more like it was an exposed bone break/dislocation or something. I have no idea how it happened if that's what it is.
After a few days of neosporin and wrapping not helping, I decided to treat as bumble in case it WAS bumble...so I switched to PRID and wrapping. After 2 days of that it looked like this:
Rewrapped with PRID for another 2 days and check again. Same color but it seemed to be smaller. Thinking I was on the right track, I removed what I thought was going to be a top layer of pus, but it turned out to be more of a yellow-y scab. The tissue beneath was red and spongy. No pus anywhere, but it started bleeding again.
So now I've rewrapped her toe with PRID and intend to keep doing that for a while to see what happens. She isn't, and never was, limping on the foot. I was wondering if anyone can tell me if I'm just nuts and it IS a bumble? How hard is the bumble kernel usually? Am I correct in thinking it's NOT actually bumble?
Thank you.
