Meloxicam for bumblefoot surgery?

[SurferchickinSB]

I have Meloxicam 7.5 mg tablets that is expired 2 years ago. Can I use this for my chicken pre bumblefoot surgery? How much to give? A quarter of this tablet would be about 2 mg.

I do not have any chlorhexidine but I do have iodine, Vetricin, coloidial silver and neosporin. Any other advice on this?
Thank you!

Maybe trying to soak her foot and then if you get the scab off and there is a hole in her foot, spray it with vetricin and then mix your antibiotic with a drop of water and pack it in her foot, and then wrap her foot withSelf sticking Band-Aid and change it once a week as long as your run and her environment is really clean

 

[echo81577]

OD = more stressful on the kidneys/liver may not be an issue for a one-off, but keep an eye on the urates after - yellow urates would indicate liver/kidney stress - can go all the way up to a tumeric yellow if bad.

I know some painkillers effectiveness wanes with time, so perhaps the side effects as well, but couldn't say for sure. Not a vet myself and running off the knowledge I've accumulated helping at Birdcare once a week for the past year.

Would you be able to crush the remaining 2ml and split the powder down to 1.5ml then make a suspension with a bit of water to give via syringe? That might be the safest bet.

Since she's so wild, when you wrap her, tuck the towel under her wings before wrapping her body - tends to keep them from flapping out. It's a good trick I've picked up from Birdcare.

I do all my bumblefoot extractions over a running tap so I can keep the wound clear so I can see what I'm doing around any bleeding. Soaking the feet in a warm Epsom salts bath for at least 30 mins should help soften up the kernel for extraction. I use ceramic hooks for digging out infected tissue left behind once the kernel is removed.

When done, I pack the wound with betadine, pad thickly with non-stick gauze and wrap it up with vetwrap - two thin strips between the toes, over the gauze and up the leg, then one thick wrap around the thin ones around the leg to hold everything in place. - has worked good for me with no kickouts and keeps the wound dry and clean.

Hey y'all! Success! It was really like just popping a zit the size of a marble. Soaked her foot as you can see in the picture above in Epsom salt and it really loosened up. Gently pulled off the scab and gently use cotton balls to squeeze out all the pus. At the very end we did see kernel like kind of thick dry pus and got it all out. What was left was a basically empty round bubble flap of skin. Rinsed it with lots of the Vetricin, dried it with gauze, then squeezed a bunch of regular Neosporin in and wrapped it up
good.
Thank you for all the ideas! I'm pretty proud of myself for doing this as I am pretty squeamish about medical things in general but knowing that if the infection were to go on much longer she could die, it was worth it!

 

[echo81577]

She was a very good patient!

 

[Lizzy733]

Hey y'all! Success! It was really like just popping a zit the size of a marble. Soaked her foot as you can see in the picture above in Epsom salt and it really loosened up. Gently pulled off the scab and gently use cotton balls to squeeze out all the pus. At the very end we did see kernel like kind of thick dry pus and got it all out. What was left was a basically empty round bubble flap of skin. Rinsed it with lots of the Vetricin, dried it with gauze, then squeezed a bunch of regular Neosporin in and wrapped it up
good.
Thank you for all the ideas! I'm pretty proud of myself for doing this as I am pretty squeamish about medical things in general but knowing that if the infection were to go on much longer she could die, it was worth it!

Make sure to change that bandage and repack with antibiotic cream(without pain killers) very often till it's healing over. I'd stick to changing daily for the first few days, then let it go a day or two then slowly stretch out till it's well healed over. If it's wet and muddy, keep to changing more often than not. This should keep it clean and prevent reinfection.

Good job!

 

[echo81577]

Make sure to change that bandage and repack with antibiotic cream(without pain killers) very often till it's healing over. I'd stick to changing daily for the first few days, then let it go a day or two then slowly stretch out till it's well healed over. If it's wet and muddy, keep to changing more often than not. This should keep it clean and prevent reinfection.

Good job!

Can do! Thank you!!

 

[One Lucky Momma]

Congratulations. Posts like this give me courage. I appreciate everyone taking the time and trouble to share the details.

 

[Lizzy733]

Congratulations. Posts like this give me courage. I appreciate everyone taking the time and trouble to share the details.

Bumblefoot and eggbinding are, by far, the easiest problems to fix! Wish these were the only ones I've had to deal with in my flock, but I started out with hybrids, so was glad I did my research before the problems cropped up.