My chicken has a problem and it won’t go away

[4Dobermans]

@Shezadandy has given you the same advice as I would. It hurts the chicken to have the bumblefoot cut into, but it's nothing they can't endure. They don't need to be anesthetized. There is extremely little bleeding. You need to cut out the solid pus. It will not aspirate as pus in humans can be as chicken pus is solid and waxy, so punching a hole is useless.

There are some bumblefoot that take a year or longer to resolve. Daily soaks, the oral antibiotic, both will keep her from getting the infection into the bones.

The hen I was treating had her bumblefoot when I adopted her, and I threw everything at it except for using a drawing salve. It's the one thing I didn't try with her, and I would today if she was still alive. Pine tar is another drawing salve used by farmers on livestock to treat wounds for 2000 years. If PRID is used on humans it will be fine for chickens.

Did she die from it?

 

[Shezadandy]

She has been having cephalexin almost everyday, we forgot a few times. That should be keeping the infection at bay, shouldn’t it?

It should at least be controlling the spread.

 

[4Dobermans]

It should at least be controlling the spread.

So it doesn’t get into the bone. Good god how come vets can’t do one simple thing anymore? When she poked holes some jelly pus did come out.

 

[azygous]

Did she die from it?

My chicken with chronic bumblefoot lived a very normal life for around four years after I adopted her. She died from a reproductive infection. not bumblefoot infection. It's very rare for bumblefoot to go into the bones, and never goes into the bone as long as it's being treated.

 

[4Dobermans]

My chicken with chronic bumblefoot lived a very normal life for around four years after I adopted her. She died from a reproductive infection. not bumblefoot infection. It's very rare for bumblefoot to go into the bones, and never goes into the bone as long as it's being treated.

Oh that’s sad, sorry.

 

[4Dobermans]

Oh that’s sad, sorry.

Can I also use Prid on the other chickens to help get the bumble foot out of them?

 

[4Dobermans]

My chicken with chronic bumblefoot lived a very normal life for around four years after I adopted her. She died from a reproductive infection. not bumblefoot infection. It's very rare for bumblefoot to go into the bones, and never goes into the bone as long as it's being treated.

The new vet I took her to thinks it’s a tumor.

 

[azygous]

Amazing. Preposterous.

 

[4Dobermans]

Amazing. Preposterous.

She said either a tumor or deep tissue infection. She doesn’t believe it’s a tumor and she took a X-ray. It’s not in the bone yet but she wants to open it up and get a sample.

 

[4Dobermans]

She said either a tumor or deep tissue infection. She doesn’t believe it’s a tumor and she took a X-ray. It’s not in the bone yet but she wants to open it up and get a sample.

God I don’t want to lose banana. We all love her so much. Even if it was a tumor, it probably wouldn’t be cancerous right? She said her bird had a tumor on the wing and she removed the wing and it survived perfectly