something wrong with my wyandotte foot

[Pickaduck]

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Yes, it's fine if the bumblefoot clears up on its own. You only really need to do the bumblefoot surgery if the chicken is having swelling/redness or the chicken is having a hard time walking on it. That way you don't have to unnecessarily cut into their feet.

 

[CinnamonQueen12]

Then I have to do the surgery on 2 chickens!!!

I really dont want to because I know it will hurt them. Is there another way to do the surgery???!!!!

 

[jjthink]

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I'm wondering why 2/3rds of your birds have bumblefoot? That's a lot of bumblefoot. Did you adopt them recently?

JJ

 

[CinnamonQueen12]

Actually, we didnt adopt them. We ordered them from a hatchery and raised them from chicks. We just looked again and all of our chickens have bumblefoot, but only 2 chickens feet are swollen and red. We just pulled the plug from my Ameraucana chicken and got the milky pus out, but I couldnt bring myself to rip the other stuff from her foot! I saw the blood and chickened out! (Thats bad, because I want to be a veterinarian!

) I just lathered on the neosporin and covered it in vetrap. Will the bumblefoot go away on its own if I keep putting noesporin on it and covering it in vetrap?

 

[jjthink]

Unless just rotten luck (which can happen!) there's something about their environment that is giving them bumblefoot. In 15 years I've never had 1 case of it. If you don't mind answering (my goal here is to try to prevent further cases in the future, for your sake, and theirs, as bumblefoot is no picnic to treat), how often do "de-poop" their areas? They are somehow getting bacterial infections on the bottom of their feet........

JJ

 

[CinnamonQueen12]

We "de-poop" every day. We go around spot cleaning. But I have a huge question. Yesterday I did the surgery, and on one of our chickens, there was one foot that had the "cottage cheese" pus. All the other chickens had a white, milky pus under the scab, but instead of the other pus, there was a stringy pus that was attached to the inside of the foot and was near impossible to remove. The chickens were obviously in pain from us trying to remove it, and we got little out before we just packed the small hole with neosporin and wraped it in vetrap. If i continue to remove the scab daily and do whatever cleaning I can, then reapply the medicine and wrap it, will the bumblefoot eventually clear up? And we believe it was caused by th roosting bar in the coop. It was square and hard for them to wrap their toes around.