My rooster is not well

[chuzubaby1]

my everything

 

[speckledhen]

my everything

Oh, look how beautiful you are! And he obviously adores you as much as you do him. He doesn't feel well, you can tell, but a Leghorn has a huge comb anyway and they don't always stand straight up due to their weight.

I think you should do the oral antibiotics again as long as you have more of them. The thing is when I am treating a hen who has had bumblefoot that bad at the beginning, sometimes, if it doesn't seem to be healing well, I have to open up the scab a second time, just to squeeze out more infection as well as pack antibiotic ointment into the wound. With chickens, infection becomes a solid mass of cheesy gunk and it somes out as almost a corn kernel-like thing. You may not see any liquid pus, is what I'm saying.

Bumblefoot may simply need more than one hands-on manual treatment. I wish I could see and feel your poor guy's foot to help you more, but as you realize, long distance makes this hard. You could get some Epsom Salts and put a couple of tablespoons in some very warm (not hot) water and soak that foot in it for about 10 minutes to help alleviate the swelling some. Others are using the Tricide Neo stuff and it seems to help a lot, as I think I mentioned in a previous post. Tricide Neo is really a bath-treatment for bacterial infections in ornamental fish, but it can be used to soak his feet, so it would be found in the pet store fish department. No idea of the cost.

I have given you a couple of options to try. The Tricide Neo is anti bacterial and does seem to work for a lot of people-they just do repeated soaks of the affected foot, as I understand it. No cutting into the foot again.

 

[chuzubaby1]

Hello there, I'm here after a long been so worried bout my baby & i kept putting the bandage until I didn't see the difference, but now i think it's looks better
But it's still swell i don't know what to do bout the swelling? I cannot get the tricide neo from here, so should I be trying Epsom salt? Also I'm letting him walk without bandage but only on my carpet he only stays in my room not out of it, & I'm not even letting him jump until the swelling goes down, let me know what to do bout this. Also his foot still is a bit hard don't know if it's the wound inside that's still healing or is it something else, his other foot is really soft & I'm so scared i don't let him walk on hard floor because his vet said before that don't take the risk of the surgery of other foot he's very they're very sensitive
So he can die

 

[chuzubaby1]

Before & after

 

[chuzubaby1]

Is it healed?

 

[chuzubaby1]

I use baby oil for his feet, i was also thinking to make gloves for him? So that he ll be abnle to walk anywhere he wants

 

[speckledhen]

I'm not sure what to do at this point, other than just let him do what he wants. It may still have some hardened pus in there, which is the way a chicken handles infection, makes it into a solid mass, or it could be scar tissue from the surgery, but without a scab now, I wouldn't think about cutting into it. If he's walking fairly normally on it, I'd just let it go for now. It does seem somewhat better to me.

I have some hens who always have a scab on their feet. Sometimes, it becomes raised up and eventually like a pebble on the outside of the pad and just sloughs off-the infection encapsulated itself and worked itself out of the foot. With the ones who are chronic with it, for whatever reason, I can't cut into their foot unless they are having a lot of trouble walking or they just sit more than is normal due to pain in the foot.

 

[chuzubaby1]

His one eyes is closed, and the other one is ALSo closing it has some bubbles in it, what to to do?

 

[speckledhen]

Either he has a respiratory infection or an irritation. I'm not sure which it is. If it's respiratory, I have no way of knowing if it's bacterial or viral. Viruses do not respond to antibiotics. He could just have a mild sinusitis from an environmental irritation, but honestly, I can't say for sure. The bumblefoot wouldn't cause that. This is something else.

 

[chuzubaby1]

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