Show hens have corns hens are subject to corns and bunions due probably to infection from slight injuries to the feet large firm swellings not sore or disabling appear as bumble foot usually ascribed to jumping from high perches to hard floors or other sources of injury if these swellings remain firm without suppuration or pus formation they apparently parent ly give the fowls no trouble if pus formation occurs the remedy would be free incision to permit the pus to escape with soft absorbent dressing applied and a soft clean floor covering rural new yorker |