My duck’s feet are disappearing! Help!

[BrukeyBrooke]

Long story short, this year old ducky girl had a limp a while back, noticed what looked like an old injury where part of her foot was torn. Not bleeding, just a hole and healing. I cleaned it up and bandaged it, kept her penned with my other gimp girly to heal. Now, a month or so later (she’s been back with the flock for a couple of weeks), that portion of her foot, plus more of the webbing is falling off, back to the first joints. And it is happening on her other foot too, where there was no prior injury. What the heck is happening?!

To be clear, she seems fine, nothing is warm or apparently infected. She’s walking fairly normally, as well as expected with that injury, and actually seems to feel better now than she did before.

 

[BrukeyBrooke]

It looks like the webs and nail area are dying and slowly falling off from the rest of the seemingly healthy foot. The web that is “dead” is hard and crusty like a callus but still attached in places.

 

[skeeeter]

Hi, have you recently had freezing weather? That sure does look like frostbite to me.

 

[BrukeyBrooke]

Nope. I don’t think we’ve gotten below about 40 recently. I’m in Western WA. Interesting theory though. Any idea how long that takes to manifest?

 

[BrukeyBrooke]

All my other birds are fine.

 

[skeeeter]

I think the areas are black within a week. The falling away may take a month or more to start, I believe.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Has the bird ever had bumble foot in the last year?
Are any other birds affected?

 

[BrukeyBrooke]

Fascinating. I’ll keep an eye on things and post back. The really weird thing is that the second foot was completely normal a month ago.

 

[BrukeyBrooke]

Has the bird ever had bumble foot in the last year?
Are any other birds affected?

Other birds are fine and this bird hasn’t had bumblefoot to my knowledge. Nothing I had to treat.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Other birds are fine and this bird hasn’t had bumblefoot to my knowledge. Nothing I had to treat.

Sorry, I'm at a loss then. I once had a rooster with bumblefoot that without successful treatment the infection eventually moved into it's bone and it lost toes that looked similar to a couple of your bird's toes.