Rooster's foot is rooting!

[Beloved_Chicken]

Pls help! without vet help can he still recover? He is a 7+ year old roo and I'm scared it'll get worse...​

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At first it's just a black scale that has blood seeping through. He got it because there's a typhoon here and in panic I put him on the only cage we have and it's a bit small, perfect cage for a bantam but a bit small for a big roo like him.​

In the cage there's a wood there for perching and it's a bit small for him to grip on and I think he fell (in panic I put him there instead of the floor).​

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I tried squeezing the blood and putting a band aid incase if he step on a poo. I always clean his area everyday. I also clean his wound morning and afternoon (with soap). He is already old so I'm the one who put him down and put him up in his wood during night time.​

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And then I got really sick for 1 week and thought that his wound is closing up since it doesn't bleed anymore so I stopped cleaning his wound and stopped putting band aid (so I don't over exert myself for taking care of them while I was sick).​

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When I got better i noticed its building up and thought that's just how it heals so I didn't think too much of it. But then few days later I notice him panicking sometimes when perched and then it started to bleed.​

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So I tried soaking it in hot water and and remove the build up and then it looks like this but there's something hard on it. Next few days I was hesitating but eventually remove it little by little. I always wash his foot with soap and then soak it in hot water then bandage it. I dunno why it got worse but it's probably because I bandage it to thightly?.​

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Now same routine but I got a betadine and then put some malungay extract on it and I think I remove it completely? At least that's what I think. I also got recommended by the feed store to let him eat this tablet, tyrox v (sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim) once a day. Now that I remove those, his foot looks hallow and it looks like it penetrated to the other side....​

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I dunno if he'll recover....he can still stand and perch on his wood (he got calmer and not panicking anymore when I remove his rope that's why I still let him perch than putting him on the cage again since he'll likely to step on his poo there) I notice that he's been eating less and less lately tho...I also just put a band aid rather than bandage since it might get too thight.​

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It'll be nice if I can help him recover without vet help... I really have no money and I'm already a financial burden especially asking for a medicine for my chickens because they keep getting sick lately after my roo died a few months ago... if there's no choice I can probably beg but vet here is already expensive and there's no avian vet here and livestock vet is really uncommon...​

 

[MysteryChicken]

His toe got Gangrene, amputation of the effected tissue is the only way to treat this.

 

[FunClucks]

I was gonna say he needs some very strong antibiotics, but other than that I don't know. Not sure what type to recommend. Not sure if what you've been using should be effective. The injury could very well be gangrene, I wouldn't know that either.

Poor rooster!

Have you got Hibiclens which is Chlorhexidine Gluconate Solution (4.0 %) or 90% alcohol to clean the affected tissue? Want to make sure that doesn't spread. Also you might glove your hands.

If you amputate, have to be very clean about it so the infection doesn't spread to the new wound. Chicken can live just fine without a toe.

 

[Eggcessive]

It is possible to cause circulatory problems with bandaging toes. Is the 4th picture of a toe that was not affected until now after bandaging? I would probably start soaking the feet in warm water with Betadine twice a day to help them to heal. What dosage did you use and how long with the sulfa antibiotic?

 

[Beloved_Chicken]

I was gonna say he needs some very strong antibiotics, but other than that I don't know. Not sure what type to recommend. Not sure if what you've been using should be effective. The injury could very well be gangrene, I wouldn't know that either.

Poor rooster!

Have you got Hibiclens which is Chlorhexidine Gluconate Solution (4.0 %) or 90% alcohol to clean the affected tissue? Want to make sure that doesn't spread. Also you might glove your hands.

If you amputate, have to be very clean about it so the infection doesn't spread to the new wound. Chicken can live just fine without a toe.

At first none just soap and hot water and then I started to use betadine.
I'll try to ask my neighbors who also owns chicken if they can amputate it .

 

[Beloved_Chicken]

It is possible to cause circulatory problems with bandaging toes. Is the 4th picture of a toe that was not affected until now after bandaging? I would probably start soaking the feet in warm water with Betadine twice a day to help them to heal. What dosage did you use and how long with the sulfa antibiotic?

The 4th picture is the one I took yesterday in the afternoon. I also removed those tissues yesterday in the morning. I usually bandaged them after when I removed the lump but yesterday I just put a bandaid instead when he's perched.

Yes that's my routine from now on! For the pills I also started yesterday and they gave me 3 pills for three days.