- Aug 22, 2012
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My wife rescued a bantam chicken from her office parking lot back on August 6th. The chicken smelled horrible and had a bad infection in her foot/leg. We washed her and have treated the foot/leg ever since by soaking in warm water with epsom salts and cutting away bad stuff and using neosporin and wrapping the foot. At first she couldn't put much weight on the leg but is now starting to walk around fairly normal and looks a lot better - although the two outside toes are not healing like the others. She has been quarantined and we are not sure if we will ever be introducing her into our family of 3 chickens (we have read about the dangers and are carefully washing after contact with her). She currently is kept in the garage in a 2ft x 4ft long x 2ft tall plywood box with pine shavings for bedding. She appears happy, she eats and drinks well, she is always perky, talks like crazy, and loves to have her neck rubbed - and today she layed an egg!
We are new to raising chickens and just started with 3 back in April so we are learning quickly. We are not sure if the rescued chicken's partially bare belly (no feathers) should be a concern (disease or something) or if it is just molting or an area where the infected foot was in contact with it for a long period of time and it will take a while for feathers to grow back?
Here is a picture of the partially bare belly (the purple color is Blu-Kote antiseptic spray).
Here is a picture of the infected foot that looks 1000 times better than a few weeks ago when the whole foot looked similar to the outside toes with hard crusty black skin... notice the outside toes still have issues - should we try to cut the hard dead part away?
We also don't know what bantam breed of chicken she is, here are a couple of pics if anyone can figure it out from these. Sorry, don't have a full body profile pic of her.
We are almost to 30 days of quarantine... so we guess we will need to make a decision on what we plan to do with her before too long. So if anyone could add their 2 cents that would be great:
1) Is the bare belly area a concern?
2) Should we try to remove more dead skin from the two outside toes?
3) Should the eggs be o.k. to eat?
4) What breed is she?
Thanks,
M & J
We are new to raising chickens and just started with 3 back in April so we are learning quickly. We are not sure if the rescued chicken's partially bare belly (no feathers) should be a concern (disease or something) or if it is just molting or an area where the infected foot was in contact with it for a long period of time and it will take a while for feathers to grow back?
Here is a picture of the partially bare belly (the purple color is Blu-Kote antiseptic spray).
Here is a picture of the infected foot that looks 1000 times better than a few weeks ago when the whole foot looked similar to the outside toes with hard crusty black skin... notice the outside toes still have issues - should we try to cut the hard dead part away?
We also don't know what bantam breed of chicken she is, here are a couple of pics if anyone can figure it out from these. Sorry, don't have a full body profile pic of her.
We are almost to 30 days of quarantine... so we guess we will need to make a decision on what we plan to do with her before too long. So if anyone could add their 2 cents that would be great:
1) Is the bare belly area a concern?
2) Should we try to remove more dead skin from the two outside toes?
3) Should the eggs be o.k. to eat?
4) What breed is she?
Thanks,
M & J
