The Old Folks Home

[getaclue]

Did the vet tell you to administer the antibiotic, and check back if not better? Did he say he thought the antibiotic would clear it up? The vet had to say something...

 

[runt325]

Did the vet tell you to administer the antibiotic, and check back if not better? Did he say he thought the antibiotic would clear it up? The vet had to say something...

Yes he did with the drug and to check back

 

[microchick]

Usually with bumblefoot, if you flip your bird onto his back so you can get a good look at his feet, you will find a hard scab on the bottom of one of the pads. If you feel around that scab the skin and tissue around and under it will be hard. Usually the pad itself is swollen as is the foot. The chicken will limp or favor that foot.

In my birds that have had bumble foot (last year it seemed as though about half of them at one time or another) I have had to soak the affected foot in epsom salt water and then you have to cut out the infected scab, the thickened pus underneith and the hardened 'kernal' which contains either the foreign body or core of the infection.

Usually it takes a time or three to get all the infection out but once done, they heal quickly.

 

[getaclue]

Just do what the vet told you.

 

[runt325]

So he will recover from this he told me to soak it in Epsom salt

 

[microchick]

Then that is what you should do and follow up with the doctor if you need to.

I would definitely find out why he thought the bird has an autoimmune problem ane what kind of problem it is.

 

[runt325]

Well when he was baby he was imbreed

 

[pennyJo1960]

@runt325 Is yours limping? Swollen? Red & hot? Are you sure it's bumble foot? please post picture

 

[getaclue]

He may have said immune deficiency, not autoimmune deficiency....Big difference. The antibiotics will help, and the epsom salt soak will do good too. Anyway, just do what the vet said.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHICKA!!!!