Slow recovery from minor foot wounds, or am I missing something?

[PippinChicken]

On Tuesday I found my ~9 month old guy not wanting to stand. When I did urge him to stand and walk, he would not put any weight at all on one foot and was just hopping around. I looked at his feet and they both had several scabs (a big one on the center of each foot and several more on toes). There were also some spots that looked like new and smooth skin where scabs had recently healed. A month ago he had an incident where he spent an absurd amount of time pacing at a fence line to try and get another rooster, and he did scrape his feet in the process. But they were very mild sort of rug burn level scrapes so I figured they would heal. Finding these scabs, I guessed they were not healing properly or fast enough and were now painful, causing him to want to stay off his feet.

I gave him a nice epsom bath soak and peeled back all of the scabs on the foot that he won't use. There was no pus, no "core" like bumblefoot spots have, no abscesses...just good healthy looking (sometimes bleeding) tissue underneath. So that was a relief. I dabbed the wounds with iodine, sprayed on some vetricyn, and bandaged that foot. I didn't subject him to the scab peeling on the foot that he was using now that it seemed like there were no infection issues, so that one got some iodine and vetricyn but went unbandaged. He's been in a cozy indoor recovery area since this all occurred on Tuesday. On Wednesday I removed the bandage and found that new scabs had formed on the spots that bled, so without any open wounds I left the bandage off. I've been applying vetricyn to both feet a couple times per day.

Today is Friday and he really hasn't had any improvement in behavior/activity levels. He still won't stand. If I lift him to stand, he'll still keep that one foot up. And he won't support fully his own weight on the one foot he does use when I am lifting him to stand. I was expecting there to be faster progress if it really was just painful wounds being slow to heal, but he has no other symptoms. Feet aren't swollen, legs seem good, good body condition, no parasites, no eye bubbles, comb has good color, appetite is ok but not great, poops are normal...am I missing something, or is it normal to take this long before seeing improvement? If it is normal, when should I expect him to start putting weight on that foot again and be willing to stand?

Edited to add that Mareks is very unlikely. Never had it in my flock, no outside additions to the flock in just under a year, had a chicken necropsied in December and there was no sign of Mareks, and this guy isn't showing any of the other symptoms.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Photos?

 

[PippinChicken]

Photos?

First picture is the foot he wouldn't put any weight on that I peeled the scabs from to check if there was anything more concerning lurking under them. Had nothing but healthy looking, pink, and in some places bleeding tissue under the scabs. Second picture is the foot he had been willing to hop around on (if convinced to stand) but did not have the scabs peeled off.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I would give the feet daily soaks in diluted Chlorhexidine. Dry well. Apply a very thin layer of triple antibiotic ointment just to the scabs, then wrap the feet loosely with vet wrap. Don't pick at any of the scabs.
See if this helps soften up the Pododermatitis and helps heal the feet.
Keep him on clean dry bedding.