howardacres
Member
| Joined: | Sun Apr 18th, 2010 |
| Location: | New Hampshire |
| Posts: | 241 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
|
blueseal wrote: i noticed shes walking favoring the bum leg . what should i do to help her . looks like it needs draining.
Could be an abscess. I have an EE hen that developed one on the inside of her inner toe on her left foot back in March. It looked almost like a regular marble attached to her toe when i found it! My farm vet had me give her amoxicillan tablets that he provided me with, and in the end, he opened it---i think he actually removed it. Her toe healed up nice, though it has scar tissue and is fatter than her other toes.
Then she recently developed another one on her opposite foot, same toe, like a mirror image of the first abscess. i treated her again with amoxicillan tablets and the abscess shrank considerably. Last night i was checking it, and the whole thing just lifted away from her toe! I'll keep an eye on it, but the rest of her toe looks fine, just some scar tissue.
I have no clue why she has had 2 of these now. It's not a true bumblefoot (which usually is an infection in the pad of the foot), but i don't know if she is injuring her toes or just has a susceptiblity to developing this.
If you have a farm vet, have him look at it, and hopefully he'll give you antibiotics for your chicken to help clear this thing up. Foot infections if left untreated *can* get into the blood stream of a chicken, and then it's really serious, could even kill the chicken. But antibiotics are great!
HTH!
____________________
Abby and the farm (dh, 3 boys, 1 girl, 35 chickens, 7 cats, 1 dog, 1 guinea pig, 11 fish in a tank, and 11 ducks! AND NOW WE ARE FINDING OUT THAT TOO MANY *FEMALES* ARE ACTUALLY DRAKES! >:p)
|
