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Robin here is a little info on treatment. It is written by one of the most knowledgable people on poultry diseases that I know too.
Generally, I try to avoid cutting the foot pad open if I can help it.
Sometimes you add bacteria to the problem, making it worse.
Try the iodine/sugar poultice first, wrapping with the coflex bandage to keep it clean.
Change it daily.
The bacteria doing the dirty work is most often a staphlylococcus bacteria and I've found that Penicillin G procaine (white penicillin) given at a dose of 30 000 I.U., twice a day (once a day in less severe infections) is good at treating bumblefoot.
If there is no change in the swelling after 3 days, then you may have to open the wound up. If you have to, you must wrap it every day until it is more or less healed, or more staph bacteria will get in there and start the whole cycle back up.
This is why I avoid it if possible.
There probably won't be any liquid pus in the foot, but a cheesy pus that works its way into the tendons and ligaments in the foot- be prepared to get as much out as you can, but don't risk damaging the foot.
Flush it out with sterile saline (under pressure- put the saline into a syringe and flush with quite a bit of force). I avoid hydrogen peroxide in open wounds as it stings and can do tissue damage (if used too often... It has it's place, though).
You can flush the wound with a tea colored solution of betadine and water- mostly water with just enough betadine to make the solution the color of strong tea.
Flush this in first (again, in the syringe) then flush it all out again with the saline.
Hopefully the wound comes around with just the Pen G procaine and the iodine/sugar poultice.
Good luck,
Laura
Robin here is a little info on treatment. It is written by one of the most knowledgable people on poultry diseases that I know too.
Generally, I try to avoid cutting the foot pad open if I can help it.
Sometimes you add bacteria to the problem, making it worse.
Try the iodine/sugar poultice first, wrapping with the coflex bandage to keep it clean.
Change it daily.
The bacteria doing the dirty work is most often a staphlylococcus bacteria and I've found that Penicillin G procaine (white penicillin) given at a dose of 30 000 I.U., twice a day (once a day in less severe infections) is good at treating bumblefoot.
If there is no change in the swelling after 3 days, then you may have to open the wound up. If you have to, you must wrap it every day until it is more or less healed, or more staph bacteria will get in there and start the whole cycle back up.
This is why I avoid it if possible.
There probably won't be any liquid pus in the foot, but a cheesy pus that works its way into the tendons and ligaments in the foot- be prepared to get as much out as you can, but don't risk damaging the foot.
Flush it out with sterile saline (under pressure- put the saline into a syringe and flush with quite a bit of force). I avoid hydrogen peroxide in open wounds as it stings and can do tissue damage (if used too often... It has it's place, though).
You can flush the wound with a tea colored solution of betadine and water- mostly water with just enough betadine to make the solution the color of strong tea.
Flush this in first (again, in the syringe) then flush it all out again with the saline.
Hopefully the wound comes around with just the Pen G procaine and the iodine/sugar poultice.
Good luck,
Laura
