Please help with this post-bumble foot surgery issue

[Bootsintheboot]

we cut open, got a lot of the puss out a week ago, but she is now very inflamed and looks like this. vet is not an option.
Currently: cleaning and rebandaging once a day, soaking. Applying antibiotic cream

Any advice? We’re thinking go back in and find the corn and remove again? Should we pour rubbing alcohol on this? Ah very stuck.

 

[_-Captain BRM-_]

@U_Stormcrow @Overo Mare @Eggcessive @sourland

 

[Painted Calls]

@TheOddOneOut and @EmmaRainboe have good experience with bumblefoot treatment.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

View attachment 2907092we cut open, got a lot of the puss out a week ago, but she is now very inflamed and looks like this. vet is not an option.
Currently: cleaning and rebandaging once a day, soaking. Applying antibiotic cream

Any advice? We’re thinking go back in and find the corn and remove again? Should we pour rubbing alcohol on this? Ah very stuck.

No more soaking. Do not soak after surgery.
NO on the rubbing alcohol.
Keep cleaning and rebandaging.
Do not surgery-it-up until it does not look infected and inflamed like this anymore.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

i will defer to the experts. poultry injuries are not my area of 3xpertise.

bumblefoot hs thankfully not been a big issue on my property..

i'm in the remove object, clean, neosporin, treat as open wound camp. No soaking.

but i could be wrong.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

i will defer to the experts. poultry injuries are not my area of 3xpertise.

bumblefoot hs thankfully not been a big issue on my property..

i'm in the remove object, clean, neosporin, treat as open wound camp. No soaking.

but i could be wrong.

I am thinking surgery is a bad idea while the wound is like this. You risk much deeper infection.
The wound definitely needs bandaging.

 

[HollowOfWisps]

At this point I would consider putting your hen on an oral antibiotic. With a bumble that size you risk the infection moving to the bone if it hasn't already and if the infection reaches that point there isn't much you can do. I would flush with Chlorhexidine (I buy it by the gallon and well worth it's weight in gold to have on hand), iodine or a saline solution. You do not want to use something that will deteriorate healthy tissue like alcohol or peroxide. Smother (don't skimp) the bumble with an antibiotic ointment and thoroughly pad the foot before re-wrapping changing the bandages daily. I would wait a couple of days to see if you can get the swelling down at all before going back for round two for surgery. One thing that I have found with bumbles is padding the foot well with either neoprene boots (crazy K farms sells chicken boots), cutting up a pool noodle or a beer koozie or even thick layers of gauze cuts down on the healing time considerably. Also keeping the bird only on soft ground usually I lock mine in a pen with a friend and deep bed the pen with fresh bedding. You don't want them out running around on hard ground and getting the bandages dirty.