is it bumblefoot or something else?

[brookschickens_]

Looking closer on computer I no longer think it's bumble... What an odd thing. What is the age of the chicken?

she’s only a year old. gonna be 2 years old soon.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

No, likely not. Bumblefoot is a staph infection that gets into the foot via a scratch or cut in the foot. Basically, it isn't anything more than a serious bacterial infection.
Hard to cure but you have to fight it from several fronts. In recent years, surgery has proven to not be the best choice any more. It is about speeding healing by drawing out the toxins with epsom soaks and sometimes injection of an antibiotic directly into the infection.

 

[brookschickens_]

Looking closer on computer I no longer think it's bumble... What an odd thing. What is the age of the chicken?

i don’t believe it’s bumblefoot bc i truly think if it was, it would have killed her by now. there has been absolutely no scab to pull off, nothing. even the pus doesn’t resemble bumblefoot. it’s just meaty blood coming out of her leg, almost looks like something that would be in a blister. i’m completely clueless and no one is helping.

 

[brookschickens_]

No, likely not. Bumblefoot is a staph infection that gets into the foot via a scratch or cut in the foot. Basically, it isn't anything more than a serious bacterial infection.
Hard to cure but you have to fight it from several fronts. In recent years, surgery has proven to not be the best choice any more. It is about speeding healing by drawing out the toxins with epsom soaks and sometimes injection of an antibiotic directly into the infection.

didn’t think about that!! when i first saw her foot, my mind went straight to bumblefoot. i looked at her foot and there was no visible mark or cut on her foot. no scab either, which is a tell tell sign of bumblefoot. i thought maybe she got bit by something?

 

[Starrponies]

I hope she gets better soon!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

It is likely that black spot at the center of the foot pad that was the first point of infection. Sometimes it is just a minor scratch. Or possibly the near toe but more likely the pad.
University of Kentucky has been treating and healing bumblefoot in raptors for a while with a HEC ointment. I never could find it in the US so I made my own. It is Hypericum, Echinacea and Calendula. It draws out the infection and heals.
I scrubbed the foot, did warm Epsom salt soaks, then put gauze and vet wrap on it and kept the bird indoors on fresh pine shavings for a while so they didn't get the foot dirty. I've treated several that way.

 

[beanie790]

I’m not too sure on this but I have seen some pictures of mycoplasma synoviae in the legs, and it does look similar to this (if its not bumblefoot). It could be some type of joint disease which is causing the leg to swell. Or possibly swollen due to an injury?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

The presence of bumblefoot certainly does not preclude the presence of other diseases nor does it eliminate the possibility that other bacteria and viruses are present in th wound and nearby portions of the foot and leg.
The thing is, the initial scratch or wound was the access point for the staphylococcus bacteria to enter. A bacterium, by the way that is naturally occurring on the skin of animals and people alike. The problem occurs when it enters the body.

 

[brookschickens_]

I’m not too sure on this but I have seen some pictures of mycoplasma synoviae in the legs, and it does look similar to this (if its not bumblefoot). It could be some type of joint disease which is causing the leg to swell. Or possibly swollen due to an injury?

I’m not too sure on this but I have seen some pictures of mycoplasma synoviae in the legs, and it does look similar to this (if its not bumblefoot). It could be some type of joint disease which is causing the leg to swell. Or possibly swollen due to an injury?

definitely don’t think it’s a due to an injury. i think it’s just a terrible infection that i somehow to have to get out.

 

[brookschickens_]

It is likely that black spot at the center of the foot pad that was the first point of infection. Sometimes it is just a minor scratch. Or possibly the near toe but more likely the pad.
University of Kentucky has been treating and healing bumblefoot in raptors for a while with a HEC ointment. I never could find it in the US so I made my own. It is Hypericum, Echinacea and Calendula. It draws out the infection and heals.
I scrubbed the foot, did warm Epsom salt soaks, then put gauze and vet wrap on it and kept the bird indoors on fresh pine shavings for a while so they didn't get the foot dirty. I've treated several that way.

i thought the same thing when i saw the black patch. where do you get that medicine from?