NETTIE!!!! ANd people familiar with bumblefoot :(

[nettie]

I'll be getting my butt down to Bama soon so i can get you that old pen! Then you can have your babies inside. I'm hoping the end of jan or beginning of feb. I'll know for sure once i get ahold of my doc and get a flight!

 

[Goat_Walker]

Thanks so much Nettie! Just give me a shout out when you can make it down here.


I wont be able to bring the guys in the house for another hour or two - dad has to unclog the tub first. Seems someone let the dog out ans she was covered in grass, mud, sticks, and such.

 

[L0rraine]

Our local vet kind of just dug out the 'plug' in one of ours with his bare hands

(then squeezed out the infected area). He told me to do the same once a day and to keep her inside on clean dry straw. When it flared up again, a few months later, I just gave her antibiotics and kept her inside again and it surprising went away on its own within about a week (and I didn't even try to pop out the plug which I was too nervous to do on my own). Once they were free ranging and on a good varied diet I didn't seem to have any problems, though now with the horribly wet weather (and more pen time and less free-range time), I have another limper. I started putting her and my 'delicate' drake inside again at night and it seems to have helped significantly.

As Nettie mentioned, we do have a problem with things that can cause the initial cut in the foot. We are in a heavily wooded and when the wind comes through we get a lot of branches down. We also have a significant bramble problem which Dave Holderread says should be kept clear, but the further my ducks wander the more likely they are to get into them. AND I had to replace a wood step into their pen with a 'rough' concrete one when the heavy rain kept 'floating' the wood one away. So it's a good reminder to me to try to deal with the initial problems so the 'muck' problem doesn't contribute to the bumble foot. Guess I better start searching for smoother stepping stones this weekend, and go back to raking the fallen debris while the pools fill up (instead of just standing around and enjoying watching the duckies).

Thanks Nettie for the good reminders!

 

[WriterofWords]

I'm so surprised that with our goathead stickers I've never had a case of bumble foot. I don't think I could do the surgery on them. I hope yours turn out ok.

 

[Goat_Walker]

I have everyone in the house and am just waiting for the pictures to load on the computer now.