Im seriously loosing hope

[Themellowyellows]

Hi everyone, for almost a year I have had the same hen have bumblefoot. She previously had it on both feet, but thankfully one foot healed after I brought her to the vet. The other foot, got better, but then began getting worse again. I have seriously tried everything under the sun. Epson salt poultuice, prid drawing salve, neosporin, epson soaks, brought her to the vet, put cussion on her roosting bar. I seriously do not think there is anything else I can do. The swelling is back and I feel like its worse.. We are getting lots of rain in NJ but she stays inside. I dont know what to do at this point, so please! Any suggestions? Im so done with this, it has almost been a year.

 

[Bsmac]

Hi everyone, for almost a year I have had the same hen have bumblefoot. She previously had it on both feet, but thankfully one foot healed after I brought her to the vet. The other foot, got better, but then began getting worse again. I have seriously tried everything under the sun. Epson salt poultuice, prid drawing salve, neosporin, epson soaks, brought her to the vet, put cussion on her roosting bar. I seriously do not think there is anything else I can do. The swelling is back and I feel like its worse.. We are getting lots of rain in NJ but she stays inside. I dont know what to do at this point, so please! Any suggestions? Im so done with this, it has almost been a year.

Hello, Sorry about your hen. I went through this with one of my hens last summer. Bumblefoot on both feet. One was so bad it had a good sized swelling between her toes. On foot healed nicely pretty quickly. The other one Was a large bumble ( the one with the swelling). The first time I removed the scab on the worst one I did not feel like I got all of the yellowish infection out and it would not fully heal. So more prid removed scab again and I dug around and made sure i got all of the infection out. It did bleed some but not too bad. I rinsed with vetricyn dabbed betadine as best I could then packed it with neosporin. That time did the trick she healed up pretty quickly then! So, I suspect your hen has some of the waxy yellowish infection inside yet. I would do the prid again and dig the infection out as I described. Good luck!

 

[Bawkbok]

Bumblefoot can be frustrating for sure. We had a hen with double bumblefoot and it took 9 weeks to heal, but we worked on it every night. Epsom soaks (feet only) for 7-9 minutes, then some light scraping (no cutting), spraying with Vetrycin spray, slathered triple antibiotic, applied a non stick pad, wrapped with vet wrap to keep it clean and medicated, then repeat every night. It's an exercise of patience and persistence. I'm sorry you're going through this.
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[Themellowyellows]

Hello, Sorry about your hen. I went through this with one of my hens last summer. Bumblefoot on both feet. One was so bad it had a good sized swelling between her toes. On foot healed nicely pretty quickly. The other one Was a large bumble ( the one with the swelling). The first time I removed the scab on the worst one I did not feel like I got all of the yellowish infection out and it would not fully heal. So more prid removed scab again and I dug around and made sure i got all of the infection out. It did bleed some but not too bad. I rinsed with vetricyn dabbed betadine as best I could then packed it with neosporin. That time did the trick she healed up pretty quickly then! So, I suspect your hen has some of the waxy yellowish infection inside yet. I would do the prid again and dig the infection out as I described. Good luck!

The thing about my hen, is her bumblefoot is like diffrent. Every time we dig through it we get to flesh. And it never helps.

 

[Themellowyellows]

Bumblefoot can be frustrating for sure. We had a hen with double bumblefoot and it took 9 weeks to heal, but we worked on it every night. Epsom soaks (feet only) for 7-9 minutes, then some light scraping (no cutting), spraying with Vetrycin spray, slathered triple antibiotic, applied a non stick pad, wrapped with vet wrap to keep it clean and medicated, then repeat every night. It's an exercise of patience and persistence. I'm sorry you're going through this.
Pictures might be helpful for the experts here to help you identify right actions.

Alright. Thanks. Ill attach some

 

[Themellowyellows]

Here are the pics, plus i added one of my other hens foot I fixed last night...

You can see its swollen and the green is just because of the epsom salt poultuice i used..

As you can see in the first pic, it looks like a normal bumblefoot, but every time the scab comes loose and I try to take it off, there is only blood and not much puss..

 

[Bawkbok]

You can gently squeeze to see if you can get any puss out. Honestly, we never got any puss out of our hen's feet either, it just took a while to heal. We would scrape away at the scab little by little. We didn't cut because it is painful and bleeds too much. Goop some triple antibiotic or Vetricyn spray on, apply a non stick small guaze pad and wrap it firmly, but not too tight, with vetwrap. Keep it clean and moist. It will eventually reduce in size. It looks pretty good actually.

 

[Bsmac]

It looks better!

 

[Themellowyellows]

You can gently squeeze to see if you can get any puss out. Honestly, we never got any puss out of our hen's feet either, it just took a while to heal. We would scrape away at the scab little by little. We didn't cut because it is painful and bleeds too much. Goop some triple antibiotic or Vetricyn spray on, apply a non stick small guaze pad and wrap it firmly, but not too tight, with vetwrap. Keep it clean and moist. It will eventually reduce in size. It looks pretty good actually.

It does? I would never have thought. Thanks for the info!

 

[Themellowyellows]

It looks better!

Thanks!