Not sure if my one hen has bumblefoot, please help.

[luvinmychickens]

Thank you luvinmychickens for your help . I called the Rite Aid by us and they said they have their brand of the vet wrap and then the Tricide Neo I found on www.ponddoc.us for a total with shipping of $33.40 (which was cheaper then another site which they wanted $37 total). I also did some more research and found for the Tricide Neo to mix 1/4 of a gallon of the solution (about 1 1/3 teaspoon) with 1/4 gallon of distilled water and that the mixture will last for 5 days before having to make a fresh batch if more is needed. Also saw someone say that after doing an Epsom salt soak in the morning and then the Tricide Neo soak in the evening they put an anti inflammatory on the gauze and wrapped the feet. So I think I will try that also. So hopefully it won't take long to ship the Tricide Neo so I can start her treatments. Thank God she is still walking around so I'm hoping that means it's not too bad.

Any time! Yeah, you can get vetrap in lots of places, Jeffers Livestock (its a magazine) has it for only $1.29!! I was looking for the Tricide Neo online and it was about $35 most places. And putting Neosporin on the gauze then wrapping up the feet in the vetrap is good to do, it will help the Tricide Neo and Epsom salts work quicker because of the feet being cleaner. Having bumblefoot shouldn't make them not walk, at least for the medium scab that your hen has.

I have a hen with severe bumble foot that I have to do surgery on as soon as I get the syringes, vetrap, gloves, etc. I checked my other girl's feet, and THREE of them have small scabs! Will be going through lots of Epsom salts, neosporin, and vetrap!! Poor babies.. Luckily the other two are clear as of right now..

If you need anything, feel completely free to private message me! I might be able to help you with a lot of this kind of stuff.

I'm thrilled I could help!

 

[Summers]

Well I'm still waiting to get the Tricide Neo. Hoping it will come tomorrow. I did the Epsom salt foot bath for the second time today (we had thunderstorms yesterday and I was not about to be chasing her in the pen to grab her in that, lol). She wasn't to happy with the foot bath, kept looking around to plot her escape as I held her in it and tried a few times to get out. She definitly is not fond of me trying to put her on her side to wrap up her feet after the bath. But today when I took off the old bandages I can see even just after the one soak the swelling in her feet has come down even almost gone, especially on top. She gets so worked up though. I talk to her and pet her in between every step to try and calm her. Hoping she gets better with it.

Sorry to hear that you have a couple of them with it. Hope they all behave for you during treatments

I wanna check the other 14 that are outside to see if anyone else has the beginings of it. I think it might go quicker if I have my husband help. Figure I will pick them up and show him the bottoms to look at. He will have to stand outside of the cages though because those 2 roosters do not like him cuz they don't see him very much. Although the one is mean to me too even though I am the one that takes care of them everyday. I have to spray him with the hose or a squirt gun to make him run in the hut so I can close him in and do what I need to without him attacking me. Needless to say he won't be getting checked since he won't let me near him.

 

[janinepeters]

I think people may be mixing and matching different treatments for bumblefoot. The foot is cleaned and wrapped after surgery because there is an open wound. The reason TricideNeo is a great treatment option is that it sometimes works without surgery. That is, without pulling off the scab and without pulling out the plug. And if you are not doing surgery -- if you have not picked off the scab and have not pulled out the plug -- there is no open wound, and therefore no need to clean and wrap the foot. And no need to isolate the affected chicken.

 

[janinepeters]

Also, I would not soak the foot in epsom salts prior to soaking in TricideNeo. Some of the salts may remain on her foot and TricideNeo is meant to be used alone. Can the salts react in some way with the antibiotic in TricideNeo? Can they impede its entry into the abscess? I don't know the answers, but would not want to risk it. Bumblefoot is an abscess, and epsom salts don't cure abscesses. Antibiotics (such as TricideNeo) do.

 

[welasharon]

Also, I would not soak the foot in epsom salts prior to soaking in TricideNeo.  Some of the salts may remain on her foot and TricideNeo is meant to be used alone.  Can the salts react in some way with the antibiotic in TricideNeo?  Can they impede its entry into the abscess?  I don't know the answers, but would not want to risk it.  Bumblefoot is an abscess, and epsom salts don't cure abscesses.  Antibiotics (such as TricideNeo) do.

Ah yes that is true. I had already tried the surgery prior to soaking in the neo solution. I was also putting neosporin on a gauze pad and putting it on the foot.

 

[oledanjennings]

after reading these posts, i want to try TricideNeo without a soak or wrap. but i am completely ignorant about exactly what to do. do i pour it on her foot? do i put it in a pan and make her stand in it? how long? once a day? twice? etc? etc? etc? please help. thanks

 

[janinepeters]

Hi Oledan, what you do is order the TricideNeo powder and get a gallon of distilled water at the grocery store. Follow directions on how much water to dissolve the powder on. I think I got enough powder for a gallon of water, and just poured it right into the gallon jug of distilled water and shook to dissolve. To soak the foot, I poured some of the solution into a plastic container big enough for the hen's foot. Each evening, I just held her for 5-10 minutes with the affected foot in the solution so that the foot was totally immersed. Then I gave her a pat on the head and sent her off to bed with the rest of the flock. That's it. I never picked off the scab or dug out the abscess. Every day the swelling got smaller and the hen limped less. I waited until she was no longer limping and the swelling was gone, and continued the once daily soak for another few days just for good measure. I stored the solution at room temperature, I think. It might have to be in a dark area, to prevent decomposition - I cannot really recall for sure, but it will say so on the package, if does need to be kept in the dark.

My hen's case was not terribly severe. There was an obvious swelling, and a dark scab, but it was not as huge as some bumblefoot swellings you can see online. Some people have said this treatment did not work for them. Perhaps their bird's infection was worse, or perhaps they did something wrong. It seems like some people are combining different treatments, so I wonder if it is best to use TricideNeo alone. It does need to penetrate the skin and get into the abscess, so maybe some of the other soaks and ointments people are using while treating with TricideNeo are interfering with this process???

 

[janinepeters]

Hi again Oledan. I've seen in some of the bumblefoot threads that some people do the Tricide soaks twice a day. I did it only once a day, and she was cured within about a week (but I continued soaking for about 10 days, I think). Twice a day can't hurt. Maybe I caught mine early, so it was easier to treat. Good luck and please report back on how it works.

 

[welasharon]

It didn't work for me...but I think it was the severity that was the issue. I piddled around, tried surgery....piddled some more...just basically made a mess before trying it. Next time I will soak twice a day and start as soon as I see the problem.

 

[Summers]

Ok, I have a new questions. First a little update. I am still treating Taco for the bumblefoot. I only soaked her feet in the epsom salt until I received the Tricide Neo. The swelling went away after one time in the epsom salt. My husband suggested to still wrap her feet to try and keep her from maybe making it worse or having the scab come off while she is out there with the other chickens. On her right foot the scab is almost gone and the bigger one on her left is getting smaller. Today though when I was wrapping her feet after the soak she was squirming around in the towel and the bigger scab came off. I wrapped gauze and the vet wrap around it and put her back out because we had to be somewhere. I'm not sure what to do now. Do I still soak her feet in the Tricide Neo with the open wound? Do I have to dig around in her foot to get the stuff out or will it come out on it's own?