Hard to know which direction to go with this.
Since you started the Tricide Neo, you may want to go at least 5-7 days with it to see if there is any improvement.
I do agree that you more than likely need to re-do the surgery on the bottom of the foot. The Bumble on the top of the foot look like you can see the pus - it would be a good idea to get that pus out.
Since your Mom works with a vet, can she take photos or the hen with her to work and ask for further opinion/assistance?
I was thinking this as well.
What I think you need is a penrose drain from the vet and some suture material on a needle.
*The non-absorbable kind.
This summer I had a welsummer with an invasive bumble presenting both topside and bottom. She is challenged with them frequently and so is her sister even though my other birds have NEVER had even one.
My treatment of them is constantly evolving.
On this event this is what I did:
After soaking and scrubbing the entire leg with hibiclens, I wrapped up my chicken burrito style.
Out of desperation, I was substituting a large wide rubberband cut flat into a strip of rubber for the penrose.
The purpose of a drain is to let a channel shaped wound heal slowly, from the inside and ALLOW(edited here) the infectious liquid matter inside the wound to escape or be flushed out rather than the exit wounds close prematurely and trap that festering goo inside.
I cut the boil on the top with a scalpel then reamed UP from the wound on the bottom.
I debrided the inside of the wound vigorously with a small piece of gauze soaked in hibiclens which I held with small straight Kelly forceps to loosen the pus away from the inside of the wound bed.
Then I flushed the wound many times with a betadine solution.
Then I inserted my “drain”.
And tied the little tails together so that it was now reconnected and would stay in place. Think of it like inserting a “hoop” earring through a pierced ear.
Here’s an example of how I prepared my drain
Next I filled a 3 cc syringe about halfway with vetericyn antimicrobial spray gel and from the bottom of the wound, filled the wound until it was spilling out the top.
Finally I padded the bottom of the foot with a piece of gauze and also a small piece at the top and wrapped the whole thing with vet wrap.
Here is a completely unprofessional video I made some time ago to explain how to wrap a chickens foot.
If you struggle with this it may help. If not, it’ll provide you with a few minutes of entertainment.
Try not to laugh at me too hard though, I didn’t have anyone to help me. I’m a hot mess. But it gives you an idea at least.
I left the foot alone for a few days *2, I think, before unwrapping and repeating the flushing and filling of the wound.
It’s also important to gently displace the drain to discourage it from anchoring (meaning wiggle it, so it doesn’t get stuck to healing flesh )
The next time I think I left it alone for 3 days, and continued in this schedule to allow healing in between messing with it.
All together I left the drain in for a full week to ten days. ... more than a week- I wish I’d documented it.
After I removed the drain - I just cut it and pulled it out-, I continued to flush and fill the wound for roughly another week until the wound channel closed on its own.
I have to say it healed even better than I’d hoped and I am quite sold on that product I used.
It’s darn expensive but I feel worth it.
If you couldn’t get it I’d do the exact same procedure with antibiotic ointment inside the wound channel.
where does it talk about mites. I think that was meant for a different post.
it was way down in the original post.
I mentioned it because a bird fighting an infection is not in optimal health, therefore fighting parasites at the same time could complicate the situation because parasites are opportunistic.
