The WORST bumble-foot, ever?

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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darn....I'm going to try my best at keeping him alive.....but it just stinks in more ways than one. He is gorgeous, seems sweet and alert...

 

[tinychicky]

try soaking his legs in an epsom salt bath, then put some neosporin on them. (by the way, neosporin, even with the pain reliever stuff, is NOT deadly to chickens. it's a different chemical that is.) i hope you can contact the seller and at least get a refund. it's pretty nasty to sell someone a sick chicken. posting pictures of his legs might help, if you wanted to.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Oh and I have e-mailed the seller and haven't received a response yet. He's in a different time zone so I'll wait until tomorrow morning to attempt calling if I haven't heard back yet.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Thanks. I have Neosporin, too...but it's the kind without any pain relievers.

I will take some pictures tomorrow. It's dark outside now and about 14 degrees and icy. I don't want to risk slipping and falling and not having anyone find my frozen carcass until Sunday night, LOL

 

[ultasol]

I pulled a duck out of a similar situation. See if you can get your hands on some baytril- try pigeon supply websites. Use it until he is done with the course to help prevent resistance. The duck is still with me and is doing fantastic, a year and a half later.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I think I have some already from my reptiles....I'll have to dig around in the medicine closet and see what I can find. Thanks!

 

[purpletree23]

When you do the soak use provodone iodine and warm water. You can buy it at any drug store. Mix it with the warm water until it looks like really strong tea. For debriding the wound your MIL will know what to do. After the legs have soaked a while try to pull the scab off one of the pads of the feet soaking more if you have to. When you get the scab off you will have to dig around inside the foot to find the center of the infection. It will be hard and look like a kernel of corn and could be really deep. Ask MIL to borrow something from the hospital that is like a tiny currette. It looks like a tiny ice cream scoop. Human infections are liquid and chickens are solid. After you soak and dig and soak and dig use a cotton swab dipped in %100 provodone iodine and wipe out the wound. Take a small piece of cotton (the size of a pea) and soak that in iodine also. Roll it into a small ball and insert it into the hole and use gauze to wrap the foot. Make sure the cotton is in the hole and flat against the pad of his foot or it will be painful when he walks.

When you are up to it do the other foot. The hock I would just lightly rub with a soft cloth to get off as much gunk as you can, dry it and then pat on some %100 iodine and then neosporin and wrap loosley with gauze. The neo will help it to not stick to any dried discharge, feathers or the wound. Trimming the feathers in the area with small scissors would be recommended also.

After the infection is out you can treat with antibiotics but right now they are sealed in his body and they have to come out.

Are you sure you don't have a good 'ol country vet who can help?

 

[onthespot]

i am so sorry you got sold a dud infected rooster. Go ahead and treat him like people say, but if it was me, I'd be trying to learn how to AI and at the very least AI him as much as possible to your hens before he dies. If you spend a lot of time soaking legs and stressing him out first, he will not collect for you. I know, it is a hard choice, but I think that your best shot, is to try AI. In any case. At least you would get SOMETHING for your investment of money blood sweat and tears. I would try to AI him first, every day, BEFORE you start soaking and treating, and causing him pain. So very sorry you got ripped off like this. It would be bad enough to just lose your money, but now you have a rooster requiring extensive (and expensive) care with a very poor prognosis. That just ain't right ANY way you slice it. If that person does not refund, OUT them! No mercy. Just out them.

 

[purpletree23]

I agree with onthespot. 100 times over! Anyway you look at it it's not right.

Bad words bad words bad words

 

[feather and mountain man]

Oh my this is so sad. I hope everything works out. Please report this person so no one else gets ripped off and no more chickens have to live with these careless seller.

I hate some people that use animals for profit without any ethics in animal health or customer service. I had bought a register boer goat from someone out of state once and drove all the way there only to find out it had CL and so did all his other goats. I was so disappointed that he didn't tell me until I drove 300+ miles. He even tried to say CL is not contagous and that the goat would get better and he thinks its not CL anyway it could just be infections from splinters cause his goats like to rub on the barn. At that point I left empty handed and disinfected us, our shoes, and clothes before coming in contact with any of our animals.

Oh and congrats on your pregnancy!

Send lots of prayers your way!