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    Lame chicken

    Quote: I had a Silkie roo living in the bathtub for a week last November from a fight with a fox--took a large chunk out of his back. It about made me faint to look at him but I had to help him. A lot of TLC and neosporin and he recovered, still can hardly believe it.
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    Lame chicken

    Never thought of a sprained leg--I suppose that is possible. She does try to put some weight on it but then flops down very quickly. I cooked up one of her own mama's eggs for her and she started right in on it. My husband said he thought she felt kind of thin to him, so the others may have...
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    Lame chicken

    Well, I have a chicken in my bathtub again! She is about 1 1/2 to 2 months old, Silkie/Cornish cross. A couple days ago I saw one of our guineas chasing her and pecking and she just kept trying to hide. Now for 2 days she'd been laying in a secluded spot--I protected her from the guinea, and...
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    Silkie with attack wound in back-new to this/don't know what to do

    I'm sorry I didn't post an update sooner because it is good news! Shelly is doing great. I can hardly believe it. He had several days of the oral antibiotics-still amazed I figured out how to get THAT in him, but hey, now I know. The day before we left on our trip I made him a little duct...
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    Silkie with attack wound in back-new to this/don't know what to do

    Yeah, the timing is pretty bad. Unfortunately, staying home is not an option. I did not know chickens did that. We have (now that the fox has "culled" for us) 3 guinea hens, 2 other Silkie roosters (we hatched them--couldn't believe we got all roosters!) and one that we think is a pheasant...
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    Silkie with attack wound in back-new to this/don't know what to do

    Update and questions: Changed the gauze on Shelly this evening and I do see signs of progress in healing! Also, when I picked him up he struggled and fussed and actually got away from me. I didn't want him to hurt himself further with such exertion (he seems no worse for it) but that he had...
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    Silkie with attack wound in back-new to this/don't know what to do

    Well, DH got the right caliber pellet and got a scope mounted on the air rifle. He put a can over where the fox was when I could have shot it and I got the can right between the eyes Makes me feel better to know there is something I can do to defend my poor little birds...it's just I'm not...
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    Silkie with attack wound in back-new to this/don't know what to do

    Still staying the course here...Shelly seems to have perked up a little bit: protests the eyedropper of water sometimes, and will turn to look if you come in. He's eating a little oatmeal today, but had quite a bit (1/3 cup cooked?) last night. He just kind of sits or stand there in his little...
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    Silkie with attack wound in back-new to this/don't know what to do

    Well, Shelly is now in the tub with a bathtowel "nest." I applied warm compresses and did what I could to get feathers out of the way of the wounds. They are very bad. In fact, I can't believe he lived through the attack and made it this far. I find I don't have much for emergency care of...
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    Silkie with attack wound in back-new to this/don't know what to do

    Something (land based predator we believe) has come and attacked our little flock...we are from 7 guineas down to 3 now. Silkies survived, but Shelly has been acting funny--slow, quiet, putting his head in the corner of the coop--didn't notice at first (and they were so spooked I could hardly...
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