Heihei1923
Chirping
- Jun 29, 2020
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Hi Guys,
This forum actually persuaded me to get my girls. I can’t find anyone in my area, farms included (strange) that can give me advice or help so I’m coming to you guys.
4 days ago I let my girls out of the coop to run around. 5 min. later I grabbed them some mealworms and they all ran over. While feeding them I noticed one of the girls limping. Strange because I could swear she left the coop fine and was walking and running with the group. I don’t know 100% but I feel I would have noticed it.
picked her up and my girlfriend checked her feet and we pulled a VERY SMALL shard of glass from the pad of her foot. Also noticed a TINY scratch there as well. GF is a nurse & I’m pretty handy. We washed the wound, Epsom salt 15 min. saline, iodine, a gauze bandage that prevents staph spreading and wrapped up nicely.
the next day did the same but put on that purple crap, Blu-Kote - germicide fungicide, a lot of good reviews on it for Bumblefoot etc. however we noticed the cut now was pretty much a white head. (Attached pic). We didn’t mess with it as it was not hard or scabbed and read it could heal as we caught it early.
day 3 the white head was almost all gone. Basically nothing left. And she was walking better!
yesterday, white head gone. BUT she’s now back to limping like day 1 and sitting a lot. She is still eating and drinking fine. Hobbles over immediately if she thinks I have a snack. She seems to get tired pretty easily. Panting a little more then the rest of the flock.
I’m just neurotic and nervous for her. Did she hurt her leg running that day and the glass was a coincidence?! Or is it just Bumblefoot caught early and it’s going to take time for her to heal and get her strength back from infection?
if anyone has any advice for me, things I can look for if her legs hurt somewhere else or anything more I could do? ( she isn’t swollen anywhere, the toes and leg and moving fine she grabbes my finger with good strength when I clean it. Etc )
thanks guy, just worried for her.
This forum actually persuaded me to get my girls. I can’t find anyone in my area, farms included (strange) that can give me advice or help so I’m coming to you guys.
4 days ago I let my girls out of the coop to run around. 5 min. later I grabbed them some mealworms and they all ran over. While feeding them I noticed one of the girls limping. Strange because I could swear she left the coop fine and was walking and running with the group. I don’t know 100% but I feel I would have noticed it.
picked her up and my girlfriend checked her feet and we pulled a VERY SMALL shard of glass from the pad of her foot. Also noticed a TINY scratch there as well. GF is a nurse & I’m pretty handy. We washed the wound, Epsom salt 15 min. saline, iodine, a gauze bandage that prevents staph spreading and wrapped up nicely.
the next day did the same but put on that purple crap, Blu-Kote - germicide fungicide, a lot of good reviews on it for Bumblefoot etc. however we noticed the cut now was pretty much a white head. (Attached pic). We didn’t mess with it as it was not hard or scabbed and read it could heal as we caught it early.
day 3 the white head was almost all gone. Basically nothing left. And she was walking better!
yesterday, white head gone. BUT she’s now back to limping like day 1 and sitting a lot. She is still eating and drinking fine. Hobbles over immediately if she thinks I have a snack. She seems to get tired pretty easily. Panting a little more then the rest of the flock.
I’m just neurotic and nervous for her. Did she hurt her leg running that day and the glass was a coincidence?! Or is it just Bumblefoot caught early and it’s going to take time for her to heal and get her strength back from infection?
if anyone has any advice for me, things I can look for if her legs hurt somewhere else or anything more I could do? ( she isn’t swollen anywhere, the toes and leg and moving fine she grabbes my finger with good strength when I clean it. Etc )
thanks guy, just worried for her.
