Need Help With Bumblefoot Victim

[ChickenPeep]

My silkie Cochin cross, Ebony, has Bumblefoot.
I was watching her today and I thought I noticed the slightest limp so I checked her out and sure enough, one foot had a gigantic scab. It was taking up most of her foot pad. We got it off and it bled for a while, but there was no puss. We wrapped her foot up in sticky gauze with a cotton ball over the wound. We don't have neosporin or whatever it is that you're supposed to put on it. Now she doesn't even want to put weight on it (mostly because she doesn't like the bandage I think).
I am almost sure this is because of her perch. She sits on the high perch while all the other chooks sit on the low perch. When she jumps down, she hits the ground hard because there's not enough clearing for her to flap. I took her perch out so this won't happen again. Right now she's sleeping on my dresser and probably will have to every night until she heals.
Is there anything else I can do for her? She's already mad a me so I don't want to mess anything else up. I would really like some advice, thanks!

 

[dawg53]

There is no "puss" per say when removing infection from the footpad. It could be cheesy looking or look like a yellow corn kernal. You couldve soaked her foot in warm epsom salt water for about 20 minutes prior to opening and after cutting the footpad open to help draw out infection. Then squeeze the heck out of the footpad to force out the infection. Then soak again and squeeze some more. Once it's all out, flush the open wound with iodine. Then pat dry and pack the hole with neosporin, then use cotton ball and wrap it up. You really need to get neosporin ointment in that footpad.

 

[Kasper Coop]

I delt with bumble foot for months before I licked it. Nightly cleaning (picking off of infected tisue with tweesers) and applying of neosporin (the kind without pain relief) and rewrapping with vet wrap. It made her feet look like duck feet. I got the sores to shrink but i could never get it to close for so long but finaly the root finally came to the surphace and I could get it out. Some people do home surgery and go in after it but mine bled so much I thought she might bleed out so I kept stopping. By the way you should know it is a weird fiberus staff infection. So make sure to be very clean about it. Staff is no fun. Good luck.

 

[ChickenPeep]

Thank you both for the advice!
dawg53, I need to squeeze to release the puss?

 

[dawg53]

Thank you both for the advice!
dawg53, I need to squeeze to release the puss?

You have to manipulate and squeeze the footpad at the same time, working the infection out the cut.