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[scandiafowl]

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Tonight I finally got to Lucy, my BLRW, and her bumble toe. She has huge fluff also and had a poopy bottom. I got her cleaned up in a little chicken bath first.

Lucy has been dragging behind a bit. She is a one year old and should not be dragging behind 3 year olds. So tonight I wormed her with valbazen, too. Got the core out of her foot or toe rather and wrapped her up in some Neosporin, non stick gauze, vet wrap. I hope this does the trick and turns her around. She's a great bird.

Edited to add that I think, and this is just a theory, that when immunity is down through nutrition reduction or worm loads, other things start popping up, like bumble foot. I don't know if I'm right on this but it's my diagnosis for Lucy right now.

What is this core that makes one ill?

 

[Cearbhael]

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What is this core that makes one ill?

Yucky stuff that comes out of an infected hole in the foot or toe

 

[scandiafowl]

Yucky stuff that comes out of an infected hole in the foot or toe

Like pus?

 

[aussiegal318]

If you do want any eggs, I would need to know very soon. I am going to be deworming the flock, and once that cycle is done, I am cutting down the adults to make way for a smaller breeding flock for next year and replacing most of them with the young ones hatched this year. I stopped hatching a week and a half ago, so chicks I have are already too big for a new broody to take, I think.

Sorry about the hubby. I hope he heals quickly and this is all behind you. Not as serious as kidney problems, but I once again, have pneumonia. Every time I have gotten a cold the last 10 years or so, I have ended up with bronchitis or pneumonia, and the latter for the last 5 years or so. I am seeing a specialist to find out WTH is going on and how to stop it from happening again. No, it is not from the chickens, it started well before I became the crazy chicken lady.

That's good because I was going to mention the fungal infection that is associated with chicken keeping. It's deadly if it gets into the brain. I've been working in western medicine for 30 yrs & have been seeing a decrease in effective treatments & increase in cost. After we get done with this monster stone, I'm sending DH to a Chinese medicine doctor (yes, PhD) because his urologist isn't going to do anything with the other 8 stones in his kidney because well they aren't bothering him. DH is a quadriplegic, so many doctors blow things off because he can't feel it anyways. The "best" was when he broke his leg & as the leg was healing it turned out the dr. said it didn't matter because he doesn't walk.

I digress, Eggs, back to eggs. Do I WANT eggs of course, SHOULD I get eggs, probably not. With 3 more surgeries this summer, my time & energies are limited. Chicks were ordered before he went septic again.

 

[scandiafowl]

While I was at work, look what happened!

My mother told me she watched them all morning, left to do some chores and missed them hatching. For someone who was so against having chickens she sure has fallen in love.

( she renamed Sunshine, our Cornish X, to Suppenhuhn, that's not a good sign)

 

[The BlanchRanch]

While I was at work, look what happened!

My mother told me she watched them all morning, left to do some chores and missed them hatching. For someone who was so against having chickens she sure has fallen in love.

( she renamed Sunshine, our Cornish X, to Suppenhuhn, that's not a good sign)

Congratulations!!

 

[Minniechickmama]

Tonight I finally got to Lucy, my BLRW, and her bumble toe. She has huge fluff also and had a poopy bottom. I got her cleaned up in a little chicken bath first.

Lucy has been dragging behind a bit. She is a one year old and should not be dragging behind 3 year olds. So tonight I wormed her with valbazen, too. Got the core out of her foot or toe rather and wrapped her up in some Neosporin, non stick gauze, vet wrap. I hope this does the trick and turns her around. She's a great bird.

Edited to add that I think, and this is just a theory, that when immunity is down through nutrition reduction or worm loads, other things start popping up, like bumble foot. I don't know if I'm right on this but it's my diagnosis for Lucy right now.

You are absolutely right! It doesn't matter what the species or ailment, if an immune system is compromised for any reason, it is then more susceptible to other afflictions. Bumblefoot is a staph infection. All of us creatures have our staphlococci that lives and co-habitates with us, and for the most part, we are immune to it until we become weakened, and that is when it gets out of control and causes problems. One reason it isn't advised to keep high roosts is because when a chicken, or turkey, or whatever fowl jumps down from their roost, they impact their feet, and by that they also force whatever is under or on their foot to compress against their skin, if the staph is forced into tissue that way, it can take hold in the foot or feet and create bumblefoot.
Another cause is leaving them on wet droppings for too long.

 

[Minniechickmama]

Like pus?

Yes, gooey, smelly, disgusting, nasty pus.

 

[duluthralphie]

The "core" we pulled out of Bert's foot was about 3/4th of an inch long and conical in shape resembling a "thorn" from a nasty bush or tree. It was green in color almost a pant like green. At first I thought it was a "sticker" he got off a plant. It was just gross and smelled.


After removing it he started getting better and even walked on it some. With Bert I have to worry and fight foot and leg problems all the time. Bert was not designed to live as long as he has. Nutrition is a problem with Bert. Too much protein and he gains weight and can develop health issues. Too many carbs the same thing.

We have found feeding him "scratch" grains works best. We also make him "scratch" for them. It is in his genes to sit at a feeder and eat until he dies.

That said, I would not trade the experience of having raised and had "toads" by him. He is the friendliest coolest bird in the coop. And his crows are so fun to hear. I suggest everyone raise a CX as a pet, not just as dinner. The few people I know (all on here) that have a "mature" CX say the same thing. I am hoping to have a Birthday party for Bert in July when he turns One. Which for a CX is a rare thing.


One thing you can not do with a CX is give them a roost over 6 inches high. They want to climb up, but getting down will kill them. I have picked Bert off high things too often and it scares me when I see him up in the air like that. I now have him in with his Harem in a area he cannot get off the ground.

 

[scandiafowl]