White Leghorn Hen with Bumblefoot!!! (2nd Try SUCCESS!!!!)

[ChickLover98]

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Yes, you need to use that after you clean all the gunk out. The betadine/iodine is for cleaning the wound. If you have a saline solution of some sort I guess it could work instead cause you need to flush out the site to make sure you get it cleaned out.

So I can use iodine? I think I have some of that, let me go check...

EDIT: I don't have iodine, but I have something called Iodex. It draws out infection and has methyl salicylate.

 

[ChickLover98]

With further research, I found out it contains iodine, and organic combonantion with oleic acid and oil of wintergreen

 

[Kazzandra]

I cured my roos that had worse bumblefoot than that with Tricide-Neo soaks. However, I think surgery may be the best option here, because you just said she is one the the most skittish in your flock. If that's the case, I couldn't imagine you catching her everyday for a 7 minute foot soak.

You can't give up on her as she may or may not become systemic-- meanwhile she's spreading the staph around until she can no longer walk.

Speaking of vectors, scaly feet mites make the best little holes for staph to get into...

But make sure all of your perches are round and appropriated sized, and that they are actually perching on them at night, not on their nest boxes or anything else in the coop.

 

[ChickLover98]

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They have a special shelf-type thing to perch on, which is almost like a nest box top... Anyway... They got the scalys from my roo. We thought they were gone, but guess not.

 

[Pickaduck]

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That should work. Make sure you dilute it with water until it looks like the color of iced tea and you should be good to go. Good luck - sending healing thoughts to your girl!

 

[ChickLover98]

The surgery is done. I am so sweaty and worn out. I had a very hard time getting all of the gunk and scab out and I wrapped both feet. I couldn't get pics becsuse my photographer, my sister, bailed on me. I hope it will be fixed. The foot still looks huge and swollen and I'm afraid I didnt get anyhting out because the 'plug' that you're supposed to see and oull out wasn't there. Just some brownish cheese-like material, nothing like the other photos of surgery look like.

 

[CariLynn]

Chicken Lover...I just finished cleaning my little crooked beaked hen, Lil Bit before sitting down to type this, as she has bumble foot, I just noticed it today. One foot I soaked for like 5 minutes in Epsom salt, once the little plug was soft I took tweezers and carefully pulled around the edges till I could get the nose of them in the hole, that is when puss came out, though it isn't smelly or cheesy, but puss none the less. Got as much as much as I could see out, the whole plug eventually came out of her right foot, cleaned it till it bled then cleaned it again, put neosporin on that and put two band aides on it. The other foot may be a bit harder to do, got part of the plug out but Lil Bit started to wiggle so we cleaned it up, put a nice layer of neosporin on that, and will check on her in the morning to see how she does. The right foot has a swollen nodule between the toes that is soft so will see how soaking and cleaning does for her.

I did read if you give them antibiotics that may help as well. Going go do one thing at a time. Good luck with your little hen. I am keeping Lil Bit in a large dog crate till this clears up, is there any way you can keep your hen in one if you have one? Or maybe borrow one? Ours is downstairs so she will get to stay nice and cool and be spoiled rotten.

 

[ChickLover98]

Thats great to hear Lil Bit's surgery went so well. Prim's didnt. I don't think I got the plug out, let alone the puss. I can't keep a chicken in the house, though. Good luck with Lil Bit!

 

[Pickaduck]

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Chicken pus isn't like our pus.. that cheese-like stuff is the puss. Not every bumblefoot has the hard kernel - I had a duck that didn't. When you check on her foot tomorrow you can double check to make sure you got everything out. The swelling isn't going to completely disappear immediately. Kind of like when you have a baby, you don't lose all the weight immediately when the baby is born.

Keep an eye on it and use lots of neosporin and keep it clean. You generally don't need to use systemic antibiotics for bumblefoot because it tends to be encapsulated/localized in the foot, but keep an eye on it to be sure.

It sounds like you did a good job.

 

[CariLynn]

Thanks for that information. I didn't get the cheesy stuff out of Lil Bits foot, just the plug and puss, got a lot out till it started to bleed so packed it with neosporin. The other foot I didn't get all the plug out so will soak and try again tomorrow, it was just hard is all. By everything I have been reading, I am doing what I can the right way.