Is bumble foot common? Worried about rooster!

[azygous]

@coach723 you're singing to the choir here! For a number of years now, I've been making my own CBD oil products from my own home grown material. In the beginning I did experiment with it to treat my chickens. I'm sorry to admit that I neglected to keep on with it, human friends ultimately garnering more of my attention.

I guess one reason I didn't keep on with it was because I didn't see any improvement with the hen I was putting the CBD salve on. You've renewed my resolve to give it a try again with Su-su. I'll begin tomorrow and let you know when/if there's any obvious change. I'll stop the aspirin and give her CBD tincture as well as rub the salve into her lame leg.

 

[shannon84]

Have you ever considered CBD oil? Just curious, I've not had reason to use it on a chicken (yet) but I do use it on my dog who has developed terrible arthritis in her hips. She was barely moving, had great difficultly getting up, and had a lot of atrophy in her hips and legs. I was really reluctant to do rimadyl long term, so tried CBD. She has regained a lot of muscle mass and walks normally and jumps on the bed again, all within about 4 months. I know it's safe for chickens as they did studies to see if it affected laying and egg quality. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22334746
I give my dog 20 drops twice a day mixed in her food (we are currently seeing if we can reduce that a bit or not- she's about 65 lbs.) so I imagine a chicken would need much less. Just thought I'd throw that out there as it doesn't come with the long term digestive issues that aspirin/nsaids can. Aspirin may be cheaper, I'd have to do the math to see how many doses could be gotten from a bottle of CBD to compare.

No, I never thought about it for my chickens, but that's crazy you mentioned it because my vet put my female pit on remadyl for her bad hip and I didn't like what I read about the remadyl, so I actually looked into cbd for dogs only and it was kinda outrageous, so are you using the human kind? That's a great idea actually! I like the idea of natural more. Seems like it could help with his leg and attitude (hopefully attitude) I may give that a shot too! I want on it for my anxiety issues. Sounds like I need to stock up lol

 

[shannon84]

@coach723 you're singing to the choir here! For a number of years now, I've been making my own CBD oil products from my own home grown material. In the beginning I did experiment with it to treat my chickens. I'm sorry to admit that I neglected to keep on with it, human friends ultimately garnering more of my attention.

I guess one reason I didn't keep on with it was because I didn't see any improvement with the hen I was putting the CBD salve on. You've renewed my resolve to give it a try again with Su-su. I'll begin tomorrow and let you know when/if there's any obvious change. I'll stop the aspirin and give her CBD tincture as well as rub the salve into her lame leg.

If you do, please keep us updated!

 

[coach723]

I'll be interested to hear if it helps. I have friends who use it topically, giving it orally to my dog has been almost miraculous, I hope it works for your bird, I've had it in the back of my mind to try it if I ever need to do so for one of my birds.
@shannon84 I'm currently using one called CBDK9, mostly due to price since my dog is large, and it lasts a bit longer, they have a large breed bottle. https://www.k9cbdoil.co/
It cost more than rimadyl, but I feel much better about using it long term.