need bumblefoot help!

[humblehillsfarm]

Maybe you can call a vet and ask you to write a prescription for it without an office visit and you can workout a payment for her time for that small task. It's so good to have a vet who is willing to do this for you but I know they are hard to come by! I feel your pain. I've given up on treating a hen with bumblefoot. It bothers me a lot to see her hop around but I don't feel up to doing the surgery myself and two rounds of antibiotics and a vet performing the surgery didn't fix it. I wish you the best of luck!

 

[CoriM]

Oh wow, that's discouraging about all your efforts. I'm a little bit nervous to spend money at the vet and not get it taken care of. I did ask about just getting the meds prescribed and they said it wasn't legal to do that. Frustratingly, I have to have an appointment to diagnose it and then come back for treatment at a separate time.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I wonder if they would be open to a telehealth visit? I know many states are loosening their guidelines around that right now.

 

[CoriM]

Okay, here are pics of Polly, who has it worse and is only hopping occasionally, mostly won't walk. My son didn't get quite the picture I wanted, but on the bottom of the foot right before the toe you can see a blackish scab. I think the scab color is from my picking it and it bleeding. I so thought I got the core a few days ago, but apparently not? When I found it a few days ago it was a bulbous yellow swelling. Now the whole half of her foot is swollen. I do have a vet appointment Monday morning, but I would love to know how to proceed in the meantime.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Till vet apt I’d just soak in Epsom salt an warm water and let the foot rest. If you only get an antibiotic from the vet then at least you’ll have that let her be on it for a week watch the area and possibly when you do the procedure again you’ll get it all. When my Runner had her bumble I did take her to the vet got the diagnosis which her bumble wasn’t like any I had seen. She was prescribed Meloxican and antibiotic after she had been on both for 7 days I opened the bumble and the bumble popped right out then she finished the meds I kept her foot treated and wrapped till the holes healed then she was good to go. They may do the treatment there that will be up to you.

 

[CoriM]

@Miss Lydia, okay, thank you. She hobbled around this morning the most I've seen her in the last few days.

 

[Miss Lydia]

That’s good to hear. Having the bumble worked on is going to cause trauma so hopefully with antibiotics she’ll start recovering an getting this behind her an you!

 

[CoriM]

I am feeling so defeated right now. I just checked two other ducks and found one of my pekins has the very beginning of bumble as well. What in the world? Why are they all getting it right now? I just looked back at my first posting about Poppy's bumble and that was March 7th - and I'm still dealing with it. I just can't keep this up! Also trying to keep my duck run separated to ensure Penny doesn't get her feathers pulled by Tuppins, and now trying to keep some ducks out of the pond and wondering whether the pea gravel I recently installed in place of sand has anything to do with their issues (although made that change after Poppy got bumble). Literally want to pull my hair out now and be done with ducks

 

[Miss Lydia]

Okay lets see if we can get @onaharley here to tell you about bumble foot. I know it can be tiring and trying and make us feel defeated but we have to push on and help these critters. They just don't have the best legs and feet for the terrain that most of our ducks walk on daily. Here living in the mountains We have more rocks than the law allows and the more I pick up the more that comes. We just have to persevere if we are going to keep these birds. My biggest bumble problems are my Salmon Faverolles {5 of them} they are 3 yrs old next month and for the first 2 yrs man they constantly had bumble. Now one has it. So it will be today I work on her. I keep hoping as they mature their feet will harden up. But i can sure sympathize with you. Hang in there.

 

[CoriM]

So I found another case of bumble yesterday - now all three of my welsh harlequins have it. I am pulling my hair out. I don't know why they're getting this all of a sudden.

Anyway, I am posting a picture update of Polly. She went to the vet Monday and has been on Clavamox since then. I haven't done anything else other than twice a day soak and neosporin. The rib of the toe is now much more swollen farther up away from the original bumble spot, which was right by the toenail. Has anyone seen this? She's definitely walking and is better than a week ago, but I'm concerned the infection is moving? I just don't know what to do, but I'm not taking her back to the vet because the next step is x-ray or surgery and since I'm struggling now with a few ducks having bumble I can't do that $$$$. I'm trying to figure out if I should buy a drawing salve or try the tricide neo treatment that I've read about.

Any thoughts?