Recurring Bumblefoot? Early stages? (Photos)

[buffy-the-eggpile-layer]

I've posted before about my ~1 year old GLD who had severe bumble foot on the bottoms of both feet a few months back. She had surgery, and had since healed beautifully. Sadly, the last few days we've been getting abnormally torrential rains and it's been next to impossible to keep her run dry. Upon moving her to the indoor "hospital coop" in the basement, I noticed three dark spots on her toe that seem to be early bumble foot:

Additionally, I don't know if I'm being paranoid, but the pinkish healed skin tissue on the bottoms of both feet seemed a bit pinker than usual--though this was after a warm epsom soak. Here's a shot:

Do you think I caught this in time to nip it in the bud without surgery? Any tips? I've been soaking 1x daily in epsom salts/betadine, spraying with vetericyn and dressing with neosporin (though today I tried Medihoney). I also have tri-neo powder on hand.

Thank you so much in advance for helping me with this! I feel like whenever we get one problem taken care of another crops up and I've been tearing my hair out over it. Not sure if my S.O. will let me run up a vet bill for this one again.

 

[buffy-the-eggpile-layer]

I should add--she's getting around, eating/drinking/laying fine. Thanks again everyone.

 

[Eggcessive]

I would fix the problem with the wet run by covering it. Sand is good for drainage. You cannot do that in a day especially when the rains are so bad now (we are experiencing the same here.) I would let them free range out in green grass between the rains, and keep your coop as dry as you can. Some use pallets and other things handy for them to step around the run without standing in mud. For now, I would watch her feet, may apply some betadine on the 3 sores after cleaning off the mud. Wet+mud+poop+tiny scrapes will eventually cause pododermatitis or bumblefoot. I would just decide how to re-route any water coming into the run. There will always be those times when they have to stay in due to rain or anow, so it would be good to make their coop larger or cover and raise the run to keep it drier.

 

[buffy-the-eggpile-layer]

I would fix the problem with the wet run by covering it. Sand is good for drainage. You cannot do that in a day especially when the rains are so bad now (we are experiencing the same here.) I would let them free range out in green grass between the rains, and keep your coop as dry as you can. Some use pallets and other things handy for them to step around the run without standing in mud. For now, I would watch her feet, may apply some betadine on the 3 sores after cleaning off the mud. Wet+mud+poop+tiny scrapes will eventually cause pododermatitis or bumblefoot. I would just decide how to re-route any water coming into the run. There will always be those times when they have to stay in due to rain or anow, so it would be good to make their coop larger or cover and raise the run to keep it drier.

It finally stopped so today we'll add a bunch of sand to build up the ground. It's definitely a drainage issue. (This is a new coop/run we built so we're now in the process of finding out what all we didn't do right lol--thankfully the mcmansion coop/run where most of our girls are drains well).

So you think the sores are not yet full-blown bumblefoot/in need of surgery? I'll betadine and wrap her foot so she can be outside with the others. She's been in a hospital pen in the basement.

Thank you so much for your kind and thorough help!

 

[buffy-the-eggpile-layer]

I would fix the problem with the wet run by covering it. Sand is good for drainage. You cannot do that in a day especially when the rains are so bad now (we are experiencing the same here.) I would let them free range out in green grass between the rains, and keep your coop as dry as you can. Some use pallets and other things handy for them to step around the run without standing in mud. For now, I would watch her feet, may apply some betadine on the 3 sores after cleaning off the mud. Wet+mud+poop+tiny scrapes will eventually cause pododermatitis or bumblefoot. I would just decide how to re-route any water coming into the run. There will always be those times when they have to stay in due to rain or anow, so it would be good to make their coop larger or cover and raise the run to keep it drier.

The bottom of her feel look much better, except those three sores are still there, relatively unchanged. Are they scabs or actual bumblefoot? I don't know if it's worth surgery/antibiotics or if I should just continue dressing the sores and hope for eventual improvement.

She's still eating, drinking, laying, pooping, and getting around well. Perky and red comb/wattles.