Is this bumblefoot almost healed? Anything else I should do?

Pearlescent

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My one year old female heritage turkey, Chicken Nugget, has had bumblefoot for roughly two months now. I started soaking it in epsom salts around a month ago. I soaked it every other day-daily, but never had any luck getting a “kernel” out of her foot. All that happened if I picked off the scab was bleeding, there was nothing else, although I could feel how hard her toe was.

As you can see in this picture, she had it in three toes on her right foot. The side ones are healed now, but the middle one is still visibly swollen. The swelling has greatly decreased from when I first noticed it, but it hasn’t gone away.

She hasn’t seemed in pain at all throughout this, and has been very tolerant of me messing with her. She’s been getting a soak every few days, but recently I’ve stopped, as it’s achieving nothing as far as I can tell.

I love Chicken Nugget, she’s a pet, and I don’t want her to be uncomfortable at all. Will it just finish healing on its own? Should I try to pick/cut it open again? Will the kernel magically appear for me to remove or something lol

Here’s a picture from before I started trying to treat it.
it got worse halfway through, but I don’t have any pictures of that.
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More of an afterthought, but when will she stop spreading the staph infection around? I’m too scared to reintroduce my mama turkey and her poults because I’m worried they’ll get bumblefoot, is that an irrational worry?

I also have a chicken with it, but hers isn’t going away as fast as Nuggets, so I decided it made more sense to ask about Nugget, as the chicken will be to this point soon enough. (I’ve had no luck getting a kernel out of the chickens foot either.)
 
Staph is pretty much everywhere. It is on our skin. She can’t spread the infection to other poults. I think her toe pads look to be healing well, and you have done a good job. Just watch it. I would put her back with others. The swelling may go down in time. I would just work to prevent bumblefoot by providing dry and fresh bedding and if any roosts are rough or have splinters, then consider sanding them smooth or padding. If you deal with bumblefoot in the future, check out treatments with either a sugardine dressing or Prid drawing salve. Sugardine is Betadine or povidone iodine added to sugar to make a paste.
 

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