What to do with this foot?

[MissChick@dee]

Guillotine... I’m going to just take a little off to start, I have a styptic pencil somewhere here but I can’t find it... so thanks for the cornstarch suggestion! I’m not too worried about that when I do my cats nails, but this is my first trim on a chicken so I’d rather be safe!

You can always take off more but you can’t put it..back on. I like the needle suggestion. If you can pearce all the way through and get no reaction, I’d cut where the needle is. I would be so tempted to just pinch it with needle nosed pliers to hold the toe securely then use a exato-knife (razor). I’d have some crazy glue on hand too. Easy enough for me to say...I’ve never had to do it.
ETA: oops should of read coach’s post first. Sorry

 

[GrannyHeeney]

Thank you all for the help, and lack of judgemental comments!

Thank you on behalf of chooks everywhere for caring! I know some hard-hearted people who would just have shrugged and pulled her head off... =(

 

[Kris5902]

So, not as much progress today... she’s not loving the chair idea, but it does make things a bit easier for both of us. She won’t poop in it, so after about 15 minutes of soaking we were done today. It’s hard to get her into it by myself, Especially once she’s out and it gets damp

I trimmed about 1/4-1/2 inch from the nails I can get to, and several more chunks of scale came off, but she did bleed a bit where the chunks were, so I applied more blu kote then liberally vaselined her up again.

What do you think the chances are of her regaining some scales on her toes? The toes themselves are actually looking much better than I initially thought they would

 

[MissChick@dee]

Wow every update it’s amazing how she’s improved.

 

[HennyPenny2019]

View attachment 1624414 View attachment 1624415 View attachment 1624416 View attachment 1624417 1: not my chicken
2: washing with warm water
3: can apply Vaseline
4: cannot bring into house
5: should I try to remove awful scales from toes?
6: don’t know when she lost the toe
7: have blu kite on hand as well.
She’s lethargic and I don’t know how long she hasn’t been able to stand on foot/ eat and drink I’m giving her water and mash... one small hard poop, she keeps shaking

Ouch ... that looks miserable, poor dear. I hope you can help her.

 

[MissChick@dee]

Ouch ... that looks miserable, poor dear. I hope you can help her.

Start from the beginning....the progress has been amazing

 

[ShannonR]

Her feet look so much better, congratulations!!! Your work is really beginning to pay off. Soon, she will be walking on that foot again! Good job on the pedicure as well, I am sure she is grateful for it.

 

[Aunt Angus]

I know it can't be easy, but - wow - so so so much better! She will be like a new bird after this!

 

[Kris5902]

She isn’t exactly a spring chicken... I think she’s probably about 5-6 years old. I just don’t want her to suffer unnecessarily. We have lost 4 of the older birds since I moved here, apparently to old age and poor health.

I didn’t know what scaly leg mites even were until about 10 months ago. I was told “that’s just how thier feet get when they are older”. Some research on my part once I realized that wasn’t quite correct led to the diagnosis of scaly leg mites. It might be how they always looked when older here, but it isn’t normal or healthy legs.

This is by far the WORST I’ve seen... I’m hoping it wasn’t because I had treated them during summer then stopped when I started taking care of my own chickens. I didn’t even want to step into that coop for fear of spreading the problems to my girls. I trusted that they would be cared for by the WWOOFers and owner... my mistake.

I’m running separate clothes and showering between treatment of her and going home to my chickens. I’m just hoping that’s enough to protect them!

 

[DarkWater1929]

Maybe this has already been suggested and pooh-poohed, but what about spraying the coop well with a dilute copper sulfate solution? Here it can be found at Tractor Supply. It is something to have on hand anyway, I discovered to my sorrow when I did not have it, for canker. I had not previously known of that horrific fungal growth that ultimately clogs breathing passages, and suffocates the bird. It is also useful for sour crop. BUT - when administering it directly to birds, super-diluted, as per the instructions, be so, so careful to follow the mixing instructions. It is very effective, because it is deadly to most things, if overdosed. Thankfully, a mixture strong enough to kill fungi, parasites, and hopefully mites, will not harm your birds. BUT - DO NOT let your sheep near it!!

I hope that you find the way to knock those bugs out 100%. Perhaps you could persuade the owner to give you the birds, and you split the eggs. She would save on feed! Poor babies. I wish, with folks like that, that the parasites liked human, too. I bet she would take steps to help them be bug free then!