Thought it was bumblefoot, maybe not please help.

[mojo52]

Hen was limping 6 days ago, otherwise completely normal. Looked like a small cut on her foot so I soaked in epsom salts, peroxide (there was no foaming reaction), applied antibiotic ointment and bandaged it. Did this each day but foot continued to get worse with the limping also getting worse. She was eating well only difference in behavior was wondering from the flock often and bravely approaching humans. Foot progressively swelled and turned red only on the bottom of the pad and up the side of the leg. Nothing noticeable from the top.I took these pics 3 days ago and isolated her, started her on duramycin.

Still worse even this morning and now the other foot has the pink swelling in the pad of the bottom of the foot with no other wounds, looks perfect otherwise. Can bumble foot spread to the other foot?
Thank you

 

[mojo52]

She has been exposed to a rooster that I thought had scaley leg mite but developed white patches on comb and wattles after a few weeks of applying vaseline for the scaley legs. I now have been applying lotramin on him every 2 days for over a week and his legs are much improved, scales going away. Could this possibly be fauvus? I have searched and searched for early fauvius pics on feet and come up with nothing.

 

[Amelia and the girls]

It sure looks like a bad case of bumblefoot to me. This link has some very helpful info. Good luck with your girl!
https://www.fresheggsdaily.com/2012/03/bumblefoot.html

 

[mojo52]

Thank you, I did read that blog over the last few days however, I guess my main question is can it , bumblefoot, spread to the other foot. There is absolutely positively no wound on the other foot whatsoever, it is perfectly yellow no nothing other than the pad of the foot is turning pink and beginning to swell. This after having her in a cage by herself, no roost or anything to get hurt on. This foot was fine before I separated her from the flock a few days ago.

 

[Amelia and the girls]

Good point, bumblefoot would not spread. The other option of mites seems logical especially since she was exposed to it by the rooster. Poor girl! Mites can be hard to treat. I’m sorry I’m not familiar with Fauvas to even give you tips on it. Hopefully, some long term chicken keepers will chime in!

 

[Eggcessive]

I would look at some of your other chickens to compare feet to see if maybe her other foot pad is not really swollen. Some redness in feet and up the legs can be normal coloring for fertile chickens with lighter leg color. I think you are doing all of the right things for the cut and wound infection on the other foot. You could also try an antibiotic such as penicillin G injectable from the feed store, or some amoxicillin or other drug, to treat the infection. Here is a picture of normal hormonal red streaking in the leg of a chicken:

 

[coach723]

After looking hard at your pictures I would be inclined to treat for a fungus and see if you get improvement. The very first picture looks more like an injury, but there are other cracked places on the foot that could be the same thing. Bumblefoot is a kind of catchall diagnosis for an infection in the foot that gets started by bacteria entering a break in the skin, so the original cause can vary. Since you have been treating one bird for suspected favus and have seen improvement, I'm thinking it may have spread to this bird. I would wear gloves when treating them, and change gloves between birds to try not to spread it further. You still may have a bumblefoot infection, but if there is a fungus causing the skin to crack then getting rid of that could help a lot. Certainly treating for favus is unlikely to do any harm. I've circled the places I'm talking about that look suspicious to me below, not including the toe that's obvious.

 

[mojo52]

Ok, thank you all so much. I tried to cover everything but I forgot to mention she is only about 15 weeks old so I apologize Eggcessive for forgetting that. I got her as a chick on May 4th so I'm not sure she would be fertile yet her comb is pink and really small. I will try treating for fungus. Yeah I got a box of 200 gloves at costco so I change them constantly.

 

[mojo52]

Also, I had to get the duramycin from a friend, I was unable to find any antibiotics at rural king. Have they stopped selling the antibiotics at the feed stores does anyone know?