Is This Bumblefoot?

[Miss Chicks]

This is our first summer with chickens so we have a lot to learn. One of our hens is limping and favoring her right foot. I don't know what this is and why she is limping. Please help.

 

[welasharon]

I have never seen anything look like that. My bumblefoot is always the classic black scab., Is that as bumpy as it looks?

 

[Miss Chicks]

It is as bumpy as it looks. They are almost like skin tags.

 

[welasharon]

Well I would think it would need to come off/out. Let me send a message to Seminole wind and get her to look at that...wow!

 

[welasharon]

What does the top of the foot look like?

 

[Eggcessive]

That's interesting. It almost looks like a tumor. Are there a lot of sharp little rocks around your coop and run? I have a terrible time with rocks being excavated all around my chicken area, and lots of bumblefoot, but have never seen that.

 

[welasharon]

It does doesn't it. Seminolewind just posted about using a candeler to look into a bumble foot. I wonder if you could see anything using a bright flashlight in this foot.

 

[welasharon]

If you pick around the edges does it look like it is something foreign in there...like it might could come out or does it just look like the foot oozed out?

 

[Miss Chicks]

The top of her foot looks fine. We cleaned it up and nothing oozed out at all. We don't have any sharp rocks, they are in a coop with straw bedding. I will have to try looking through with a flashlight to see if anything is in there. I hope it isn't anything serious...she is such a sweetie.

 

[seminolewind]

Is it recent? Sore? Swollen? It does not look like the usual bumblefoot. Kind of looks like canker. I wonder how long it's been forming.

If it's a tumor, you may not be able to remove it because it may be vascular. Hope to hear your replies