Peachick foot infection?

[Max0815]

I have 4 peachicks currently, and two of them weeks ago somehow obtained breakages in their skin. I've sprayed their feet with new skin, but now, it seems that there is swelling and necrosis on one:

and mild swelling in the second:

I'm regularly cleaning their feet right now with alcohol and water. I'm also feeding the first one(with necrosis) with half a capsule of amoxicillin per day, but none of these seem to help.

What's the correct way to tackle this problem? It seems similar to bumblefoot, but in the swelled patch I can't feel any fluid when I press on it...

 

[nchls school]

What kind of bedding are they on? Is it possible that tiny fibers have wrapped around the toes cutting off circulation; I have seen this in chicks/chickens. These fibers may be so fine as to be almost invisible to your eye.

 

[Max0815]

What kind of bedding are they on? Is it possible that tiny fibers have wrapped around the toes cutting off circulation; I have seen this in chicks/chickens. These fibers may be so fine as to be almost invisible to your eye.

I put them in a cardboard box with paper towels covering them during the night. They stay in a chicken wire cage I made for them during the day, and I let them out for 3-4 hours each day.

 

[nchls school]

Sounds OK. Be sure they are never on ground used by other poultry. Peachicks are very susceptible to coccidiosis.

 

[Max0815]

Alright. How should i deal with the necrosis and swelling? Should I continue feeding amoxi to the second one?

 

[nchls school]

I am sorry as I am at a loss on this one.
The, below, picture is from a 2014 post. It is a peacock foot kept in a heated building. All the posts on the subject were wonderings how frostbite could occur... It gave no solutions or little advice on what to do that would help you. One did mention epsom salt foot bath.

I am sure you looked online and found nothing useful; as I did.
Again, sorry. I would be devastated if this happened to my peachicks.

 

[nchls school]

A suggestion. I have no idea if this would help prevent further damage, but consider keeping the birds on durable/strong screen. Increased air circulation around the feet may help. I'm wondering too, if this could be caused by some kind of parasite; bacterial or otherwise. Possibly Vaseline rubbed on the legs and toes might help.

 

[Max0815]

Thanks for your advice. I've looked online yea, and found just bumblefoot and frostbite, and nothing much. I'm assuming its because of a bacterial infection, and I'm giving him amoxi, so i'll continue feeding him half a capsule per day.

I'll also try your vaseline method. Thanks for your suggestions.

 

[KsKingBee]

Last year we were dealing with this skin condition on one of our new colors of peafowl. Half of the chicks developed this condition and we lost a few of them. We spent over $3000. in vet and lab work trying to find out what the problem was and nothing was ever found in all the lab work. Our vet thought it was a vitamin or mineral deficiency as all the tests came up with nothing. It seemed like a skin allergy to me as we could not figure out anything.

We gave vitamin A, C, and E, used salves, antibiotics, and pain relievers with only some healing that never really cleared up.

This is a new color mutation and there are very few birds of this color so far, maybe less than 20 breeding pairs last year and maybe twice that this year. So this year when the first chick started to show symptoms we figured out it was not a particular parent as that pairing was changed up so I started looking for what was different with my birds than the other people that also are raising this mutation. The condition starts to show itself right at four weeks, of the first four chicks two showed signs and two did not, much like last year and they start this right at four weeks.

We use vitamins and electrolytes in the chick water and feed medicated chick starter to all of our chicks so I thought we would not give the vitamins and electrolytes or the medicated feed and they cleared up within ten days. I do not know if this is related but I would try to avoid the medicated feed and vitamins and electrolytes and see if that helps.

 

[Max0815]

Oh dear. That's gruesome...

As for mine, they were developing cuts in their skin, particularly in the places of joints. I'm not sure how they got them, but I believe the resulting bacterial infection caused the swelling, and somehow blood flow got cut off from one and that part of the toe just died...