PLEASE help- my hen SPLIT OPEN

She's still hanging on, looking bright eyed and curious in the guest room bathtub. A little blood in her stool a few hours ago, that's new.
 
About the only wisdom I can add is something my mother has always said, "A clean cut heals much faster than a jagged tear."

My personal opinion as a non-veternarian: lance it. Doesn't sound like a major organ that you're looking at. Have something handy to stop bleeding and give it a single poke.

Many blessings upon the ill chicken and her caring keeper!
 
Her white poop matches the symptoms of ASCITES, could the water have made her split open? Should I try and drain it?

From what I have read about ascites the belly wouldn't really be hard tissue but more bloated. I remember when one of my hens had a wound we found she had grown new skin over scar tissue. I know it is hard when you get so many different ideas from the forum, but avoiding spread of infection is the most important.

I think I would still inject the Tlyan in the breast (but not too deep in the muscle).​
 
Well, she's still alive and eating. I've been cleaning her wound and making that my focus. She's about to get another warm betadine bath..
 
the poor thing...
I would treat it as an abscess. Clean it well, lance it, clean again with saline or rinse with betadine and antibiotic ointment(all the stuff I do for my frequent abscesses except betadine, i'm allergic). If you do use peroxide, I would do a 50/50 saline peroxide mix, straight peroxide can debride nasty infections, but it can kill good tissue to.
 
She's still alive and happy- I've been cleaning the wound and continuing the antibiotics and just trying to support whatever processes her body has undertaken instead of introducing any action of my own. Haven't opened or poked anything (and man, that's been tough to resist!) She was getting pretty grumpy in the bathroom so I've brought her out to range in my lawn a few times. Today she even sang the "Egg song" when she left the bushes, but I didn't find an egg. Still, I'm so glad she's interested in surviving!
 
WEll, if anyone is around who remembers this thread from last year: guess what? Same thing is happening to my hen again this year! The skin hasn't split open yet though and I'm already injecting her with tylan. What the heck is going on with her?
 
I know this is an old thread. Same thing just happened to my chicken but on both of her sides - wth??? I superglued it shut and did the antibiotic thing, wound irrigation thing - did you ever find out the cause?
 

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