Little sores on the bottoms of their feet?

[horsecrazychicklovingkid]

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Their feet aren't bruised like bumble foot, they free range on really lush grass, and their roost is only a few inches from the floor.

 

[horsecrazychicklovingkid]

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Woodchips and/or fine sand in the tops of their A frame coops.

 

[GoldenSparrow]

yes bumble foot
My hens bumble foot looks just like that.

 

[Impress]

Bumblefoot presents in many different ways, but that looks like it is 99.9% Bumblefoot.

 

[horsecrazychicklovingkid]

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Last year we had a hen with bumble foot and we researched it and it was a swelled up bruised pad, not like in this instance, which is just a little scab on the bottom of their feet, they don't act like it hurts and they are free range, so I'm pretty sure this particular instance is not bumble foot.

 

[Impress]

Well see, the scab is usually where the bumblefoot started, and it sets up a hard knot of infection in there. The one that had a bruised swollen foot was probably just farther along and the scabbed area that turned into the bumblefoot infection had healed.

 

[jelly_biscuit]

That's bumblefoot.

 

[Chinchilla2]

Being free range on soft grass is not a preventative for bumblefoot. Think of bumblefoot the same way you would about getting a bruise. One day your shin is fine and the next day it looks like a mule kicked you. You don't know when you hit your shin, what you hit your shin on, or anything that hard but you still have a fist sized big bruise there. Bumblefoot is the same way, you don't know exactly what they stepped on, could have been something as innocuous as a dried blade of grass but it was sharp enough and penetrated far enough to put some dirt or other substance under the outer layer of pad. This cranked over the infection fighting machine and now you have a chicken version of a boil on the bottom of their feet.

 

[heatherkh]

Do a google image search of bumble foot and you will see many images that look just like yours with the scab. You'll also see just the swelling you described in your other chicken. Bumble foot presents in a few different ways.

 

[navychick]

If we all agree for the sake of argument that this is bumble foot would this be considered early stages?
Is bumble foot caused by a foot injury that goes untreated?
Is it best to treat first with antibiotics?
After successful surgical intervention does it often reoccur?