Rural Gardening: A really gross foot problem that I fixed, now a question., 0 by DrDoolotz

DrDoolotz wrote:
Well, here is some info on bumblefoot (which your chickens may or may not have, but I raise it just to be sure that you can check for symptoms and be sure).

Symptoms: lameness, reluctance to walk, inflamed foot, hot, hard or swollen, or pus-filled abscess or dark black scab on bottom of foot. (could yours be the scab?)

Caused by Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, which could enter foot through any number of small cuts, splinters from roosts, etc.

Here is a picture: (note this is not my own pic and is copyright to Flo Tseng)

Also note mine didn't look like this - mine was a lump on the TOP of the foot because the crud ball had pushed up between the toes.