Is this bumblefoot?

[DuckLady]

It does look like a mild bumblefoot. I have seen and treated worse.

What do you see when you look close? Is it open and can you see a yellowish clump?
Often I have has those pop out when I wiggled it back and forth.

Then I wash with soap and water and pack with antibiotic cream, cover with a gauze bandage square and use vet wrap to hold it in place. Try to keep the duck out of mud, water, etc for several days.

You will need to check the foot every day and clean and rebandage.

Oh and wash your hands thoroughly and or use latex gloves. Bumble is a staph infection and you need to use care in handling the feet.

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Thanks Terrie - it is not open and we don't see any yellowish clumps at all. It looks nothing like the bumblefoot my hen had which is throwing us for a loop. This actually looks more like calluses; kind of like little pieces of the mulch embedded into pads on her feet and that's what I'd assume they were except for the big lumps. I'm really torn between soaking and treating with an antibiotic ointment or cutting one open to see if there's a core but we don't want to hurt her if it isn't necessary.

Is it normal for ducks to have little pads on the bottoms of their feet?

 

[Le Canard de Barbarie]

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I slaughtered several hundred ducks this year, and almost all had feet like yours. Not one was limping. My 45 breeder ducks also have feet like that.

Me, I don't need to put the local vet's kids through college.

 

[accio! chickens]

I'm in a similar situation, It's weird. This is a problem with my chickens though, not ducks. There are a bunch of them I thought had bumble foot. I know a few do but I'm having trouble finding supplies to operate. Anyway, I tried to pick at/inspect some of their feet who looked like bumblefoot but found it to almost be like a callus and not a scab. Very similar to your situation. None of my girls are limping but I do know I have some with bumblefoot but others who look liike they have it yet when I inspect it looks just like calluses. I decided not to mess around with their feet until they start limping. Just deal with the confirmed bumblefoot cases first.

 

[nettie]

i'd say try the soak first to see if any of that mulchy looking stuff comes off. You can put the antibiotic ointment on too. Give it a few days and see what happens. If it looks better, keep on with it. If not or if the duck gets worse, then consider cutting one open. Ducks get callouses, but they never look like that on my ducks. It could be a fungal thing rather than an infection.

A DMSO solution with an antibiotic like baytril in it really helped clear up both of my ducks foot problems. Ming mei had bumblefoot, and victor had weird reddish callouses on his back toes (he broke both of his nails off and they were growing in weird). Now that i think of it, his little red callouses kinda look like your ducks feet (only victor's was much smaller and less scary looking). Do you have a vet that might prescribe a DMSO solution? It helped my ducks right up, in maybe a week...

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

I think we are going to hold off doing anything and just keep an eye on her. We'll take another good look on Saturday. Right now it's so cold and windy that the ducks aren't even coming out of their box, so no sense stirring things up. We also want to look at some of the other ducks' feet. We noticed Ivory's because she was limping, but everybody else might look the same too and we're panicking for nothing.

We really appreciate everybody's info - thanks

 

[DuckLady]

Something you might try if you think it is stuff caught up in rough pads....use a veggie brush and soap and water and gently scrub the pads and see what happens.

If nothing else, they will have clean sweet smelling feet.

 

[LilRalphieRoosmama]

Good idea! We'll try that too!

 

[newchickmom09]

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I can picture someone going around smelling there ducks feet.

I would soak the foot and see what happens to the spot. That would probably be the best and less painful way to see what is going on then go from there.

 

[DuckLady]

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