Chicken shack Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Sorry but I have not been on here for sometime! I think one of my girls has bumble foot, I have searched the forum and only found a few posts is there a thread I can go to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beantree Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Hello Chicken Shack. We had loads of bumble foot problems at one place. We think it was the ground. The injuries went septic and then fungal. The fungus grew up into the foot and had to be cut out, which is a very tricky process indeed. Antibiotics are useless for this condition. Why do you think you have bumble foot? Can you post a good photo? What do you think caused it? If it is just a pad injury without swelling it can be left alone. If it is swollen it needs draining and the vet needs to sort it. We carefully cut away the 'scab' and take out the solidified puss, which looks like cheese. Very important there is no (or little) bleeding. Then we pack the site with Teatree cream, put a gauze dressing on and bind the whole area with micropore tape. The whole lot is checked after a few days and a week later the dressing is changed. Normally the whole thing has healed up within 2 weeks. Make sure the run surface is free of sharp objects and the perches in the coop are not too high. Height depends on breed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Chicken shack, 2 of my pekins got bumble foot last year. It looked like a human version of a corn only black and it was definitely scab like. My girls did get better with antibiotics from the vet and I also had to wash their feet with an iodine solution - which the vet just gave me a huge bottle of for nothing I also keep a tub of the Tea Tree cream and rub it on every now and then just to be on the safe side. Like Beantree said it can be caused by sharp things, we had a good look at things in the run and decided that not only were there a lot of sharp stones but also lots of square edges. Hubby kindly made them a new ladder with round rungs and replaced the edges of their digging pit with round rungs as well. This has worked well. Every now and then I sift their soil to remove the worst of the stones. It amazes me how many pieces of glass, plates and terracotta pieces I find - no treasure yet though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken shack Posted May 1, 2014 Author Share Posted May 1, 2014 Thank you both. I re homed two cuckoo marans not sure how to spell that. They live in an eglu cube, WIR and a large free range area. I think they find the ladder a bit tricky as they are heavy breeds. Not sure how I can change that! One of them went quite lame but the next day although limping was getting about. A friend helped me look at the feet and the one she was limping on has the black spot and the other foot has a smaller black spot. The foot is not hot ATM. off to the chemist I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luvachicken Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 I have a cube too and the pekins I've got struggled with the original ladder so hubby covered it with a plank of wood which he fixed on from underneath. This was the ladder that had square rungs on it but as I said, this then got changed into round rungs once I saw they had a problem. Hubby replaced the square rungs with tree stake instead - they come in a nice range of thickness, are lovely and round and don't have splintery surfaces. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
