Tina the Turkey has Bumblefoot !!!

[danceonweeds]

Tina, our 8 month old white rescue turkey has bumblefoot!

For the past week and half, I've been soaking it in Espon Salt/calendula for 10 minutes, picking off the scab with tweezers, spraying with vetrycin, applying Prid and keeping wrapped. I've delt with bumblefoot surgery in my hens, but this turkey foot is a whole other beast and is fairly swollen.

I have not gotten to any pus, and when I start to dig around it always starts to bleed. I'm being cautious as I don't want to introduce more bacteria, but at this point I know the abcess is still in it. I guess I just need to know how much to dig without making it worse. Since her foot pad is much larger than a chickens, there is a lot of different directions to dig in. Any help would be appreciated. I've checked out YouTube but the videos are either mild chicken infections or severe, neither which is the case for poor Tina.

Also to add, I know white breasted turkeys are meat birds and not meant to love long. Tina is doing great, free range, not overweight, good mobility beyond the bumblefoot. She is not even limping much, just slightly.

 

[R2elk]

Tina, our 8 month old white rescue turkey has bumblefoot!

For the past week and half, I've been soaking it in Espom Salt/calendula for 10 minutes, picking off the scab with tweezers, spraying with vetrycin, applying Prid and keeping wrapped. I've dealt with bumblefoot surgery in my hens, but this turkey foot is a whole other beast and is fairly swollen.

I have not gotten to any pus, and when I start to dig around it always starts to bleed. I'm being cautious as I don't want to introduce more bacteria, but at this point I know the abscess is still in it. I guess I just need to know how much to dig without making it worse. Since her foot pad is much larger than a chickens, there is a lot of different directions to dig in. Any help would be appreciated. I've checked out YouTube but the videos are either mild chicken infections or severe, neither which is the case for poor Tina.

Also to add, I know white breasted turkeys are meat birds and not meant to love long. Tina is doing great, free range, not overweight, good mobility beyond the bumblefoot. She is not even limping much, just slightly.

My recommendation is that once you get it to bleed, paint it with BluKote and leave it alone to heal. Do not continue to pick off the scab. The scab is part of the healing process.

Soaking in Epsom salts can soften the tissue. The bleeding can allow the white blood cells to start attacking the core.

FYI, there is no such thing as a White Breasted turkey. There are Broad Breasted White turkeys which were developed for the meat market..