Theofire88
Chirping
- Feb 16, 2015
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Hello!
My friend and I had started raising chickens and because they were having an off-schedule moult, we decided to make them chicken sweaters, however our Gold Laced Wyandotte somehow picked the buttons off or something and ended up twisting the whole thing around her! She was found half strangled to death, in extreme distress and with a massive gash/rub on her back! I am so panicked and feel terrible! We penned her off and gently dabbed the wound with gentle iodine and warm water. The wound, which occurred in the late night/morning (leaning towards morning s she was going to bed when we said goodnight), while we were in class, had still been bleeding, as the lady who helped her had left her out, she won't eat and won't drink, she won't even take scratch from us! In one area, close to the right wing, it appears she has been rubbed down to the fat, as there is an odd looking area that looks like it is a fatty pocket, the wound is a little ways under her wing on the right side and stretches just to close to under the left wing. She will move around and flap her wings if provoked, but stands there with her eyes closed, occasionally opening them for the most part. Maybe she is tired? (The damage was thought to have been done sometime in the night/early morning) She has ample access to food and water, I hung up a carrot (all I had on hand) and tossed some scratch around her little area, she has a cat-bed as a nesting box and a little (veeeryy small) amount of scratch in with her food to encourage her to eat.
Please, any help is so greatly appreciated, I will try to upload my one photo later and get some more detailed shots tomorrow, while she is hopefully feeling better! I am so worried and just feel AWEFUL!
My friend and I had started raising chickens and because they were having an off-schedule moult, we decided to make them chicken sweaters, however our Gold Laced Wyandotte somehow picked the buttons off or something and ended up twisting the whole thing around her! She was found half strangled to death, in extreme distress and with a massive gash/rub on her back! I am so panicked and feel terrible! We penned her off and gently dabbed the wound with gentle iodine and warm water. The wound, which occurred in the late night/morning (leaning towards morning s she was going to bed when we said goodnight), while we were in class, had still been bleeding, as the lady who helped her had left her out, she won't eat and won't drink, she won't even take scratch from us! In one area, close to the right wing, it appears she has been rubbed down to the fat, as there is an odd looking area that looks like it is a fatty pocket, the wound is a little ways under her wing on the right side and stretches just to close to under the left wing. She will move around and flap her wings if provoked, but stands there with her eyes closed, occasionally opening them for the most part. Maybe she is tired? (The damage was thought to have been done sometime in the night/early morning) She has ample access to food and water, I hung up a carrot (all I had on hand) and tossed some scratch around her little area, she has a cat-bed as a nesting box and a little (veeeryy small) amount of scratch in with her food to encourage her to eat.
Please, any help is so greatly appreciated, I will try to upload my one photo later and get some more detailed shots tomorrow, while she is hopefully feeling better! I am so worried and just feel AWEFUL!