Uuugggg...bumble foot?

[JensChickies]

I'm pretty sure this is humble foot. What do you guys think? Still eating and drinking, not limping in it.

 

[Eggcessive]

Yes that is bumblefoot. I would recommend doing the surgery. If you google "bumblefoot in chickens" there will be a couple of very good links with videos and pictures from The Chicken Chick and others, and at the top of this page you may also do a search for pages of help about this.

 

[JensChickies]

Yes that is bumblefoot. I would recommend doing the surgery. If you google "bumblefoot in chickens" there will be a couple of very good links with videos and pictures from The Chicken Chick and others, and at the top of this page you may also do a search for pages of help about this.

Thanks Eggcesdive...I'm getting ready right now to dive in and do the surgery. Never done one before so it will be another first for me.

 

[chickie-doo]

Yes, that is bumblefoot. Careful not to touch this with your bare hands. WEAR LATEX TYPE GLOVES!!!. What you need to do is gather together cotton swabs, peroxide a New single edge razor, wiped down with alcohol, some sterile gauze and narrow "vet wrap" which you can get in any pet/livestock supply store.
Have someone hold your bird on their lap.wrap the bird's. Body in a towel to keep them quiet and steady because you're going to CAREFULLY lance the "bumble". First swab foot with ame alcohol. Very CAREFULLY pick off scab WITHOUT cutting INTO flesh with razor. YOU DONT WANT TO MAKE THE WOUND BIGGER, JUST PICK OFF SCAB SO CONTENTS CAN BE SQUEEZED OUT THE CRUD LIKE A PIMPLE.
Have your gloves on because the "crud" is loaded with STAPH bacteria and can spread to you. Once you pick of scab, squeeze until ALL the gunk comes out. It'll. Look like cottage cheese. Once it's COMPLETELY free of gunk, rinse with peroxide, put on a gob of triple antibacterial ointment. Stick a pad of sterile gauze on wound and wrap foot in vet wrap. Wrap so the foot remains flat and she can stand and move around. You may want to desperate this bird so you can ck and clean the dressing, add New ointment daily. The trick is to clean really well and keep her clean and away from pesky flockmates. Give her daily some antibiotic in water (ck online what works best for staphylococcus bacteria

 

[JensChickies]

Yes, that is bumblefoot. Careful not to touch this with your bare hands. WEAR LATEX TYPE GLOVES!!!. What you need to do is gather together cotton swabs, peroxide a New single edge razor, wiped down with alcohol, some sterile gauze and narrow "vet wrap" which you can get in any pet/livestock supply store.
Have someone hold your bird on their lap.wrap the bird's. Body in a towel to keep them quiet and steady because you're going to CAREFULLY lance the "bumble". First swab foot with ame alcohol. Very CAREFULLY pick off scab WITHOUT cutting INTO flesh with razor. YOU DONT WANT TO MAKE THE WOUND BIGGER, JUST PICK OFF SCAB SO CONTENTS CAN BE SQUEEZED OUT THE CRUD LIKE A PIMPLE.
Have your gloves on because the "crud" is loaded with STAPH bacteria and can spread to you. Once you pick of scab, squeeze until ALL the gunk comes out. It'll. Look like cottage cheese. Once it's COMPLETELY free of gunk, rinse with peroxide, put on a gob of triple antibacterial ointment. Stick a pad of sterile gauze on wound and wrap foot in vet wrap. Wrap so the foot remains flat and she can stand and move around. You may want to desperate this bird so you can ck and clean the dressing, add New ointment daily. The trick is to clean really well and keep her clean and away from pesky flockmates. Give her daily some antibiotic in water (ck online what works best for staphylococcus bacteria

Thank you! I just went and got some sterile scapels. I have sterile everything so hopefully it doesn't get infected! What about pain control? I have low dose 81mg aspirin.

 

[chickie-doo]

Yes you can give the bird low dose aspirin but you'll have to cut the pill in 1/6 or 1/8 pieces. Figure one pill is for a child and a chicken is that much smaller. Don't overdue the aspirin since too much might possibly cause intestinal bleeding (as with a human). Play it by ear. If your bird is looking miserable, then try it. If she's. Moving around fine and eating the antibiotic ointment and oral should be plenty.

 

[JensChickies]

Yes you can give the bird low dose aspirin but you'll have to cut the pill in 1/6 or 1/8 pieces. Figure one pill is for a child and a chicken is that much smaller. Don't overdue the aspirin since too much might possibly cause intestinal bleeding (as with a human). Play it by ear. If your bird is looking miserable, then try it. If she's. Moving around fine and eating the antibiotic ointment and oral should be plenty.

Ok, I will test the ground. Aspirin is a blood thinner, so if she needs it after I will give it to her. Thank you, I will let you know how it goes.

 

[chickie-doo]

Good luck! Let me know how things are going

 

[JensChickies]

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Here she is....she's not sure about the bandage. I got the kernel out, but I'm not sure if I got it all. I squeezed and tried to manipulate more out, but I'm not sure if I was successful. I might have to go back in, I really don't want to, but I'm not sure if I got it all out or not.m

 

[chickie-doo]

I should mention that I did not use any aspirin with bumblefoot(I did with more severe issues). The thorough cleaning, other meds and daily bandage change was enough