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Hi -- Having been unhappy with the results of my own attempts at surgery with my chickens, may I suggest soaking his foot in really hot water with epsom salts first? Chicken pus is not like ours, it is cheesy and you have to squeeze it out. Maybe you can try this if you can't find a bird vet...

I keep forgetting things to say - you can cut the feathers near the wound with scissors so you can keep it clean. You can try to pull the wound togetehr a bit with a butterfly bandage, unless if it is really big. They sell stockings to cover limbs, and you could use one to hold gauze pads or...

I have heard: don't treat wounds with peroxide. Sterile saline and antibiotic ointment are better. Peroxide can kill healthy cells and provide a breeding ground for bacteria. But since you diluted it it is prob OK.

I had this problem with rescued hens. They had been debeaked. Some had the beaks grow back, or grow back partially. All but one functioned quite well. The one that had the problem had the lower bill grow up over the half-removed upper bill. It curled around like a really long fingernail and made...

I researched this because I wanted to know. One of the jobs of vets is to investigate the suffering and stress associated with different methods of killing animals. There are whole papers (scientific) written on this. They can determine suffering, stress, and time to death by measuring stress...

p.s. It also occurred to me that if you just went to the farm animal vet and said, "listen, I know how to inject antibiotics and all I want is a script," maybe they would give you one. Most people don't understand that some people want to keep their birds alive. I have received all kinds of...

I have had similar injuries and have had the bird recover. Other times, they have not, and here is what I have learned. - Tetracycline injected is a miracle. It is easy to do and the vet can show you, plus there are instructions if you google it. - Maggots are a risk. I hate to even say this...

btw I believe the medicated starter mashes also have something in them for coccidiosis. check it out, if you had them on a medicated mash. but if you don't know if that was her poop and if you don't know that was really blood in it you don't know that she has coccidiosis.

It seems to me that the most imortant thing right now is to get her to eat. I would separate her from the rest of your birds, then put food right in front of her. Mix yogurt, milk, or water with it if she does not eat her feed. If that does not work, I try one yummy thing at a time: fruit...

I ahve had the green diarrhea problem more than once and am having it tight now with two sick piullets. Like you I looked it up and scared myself. But as long as they eat, they have normal poops. In the a.m. or if I do not put energy into giving them yummy stimulating things to eat they have...

I am having a similar problem. I bought four pullets from someone and two have that foghorn sound you speak of. they cough, and one is wheezing and sometimes gasps for breath. I don't think she is getting enough oxygen. She is also not eating much. The other eats but I have to work at it...

Mine molt at different times throught eh year. I talked to a breeder about it once, and he said hens can molt any time in the year. My rooster molted this spring, as did a couple of hens. I know stress can trigger molting, but I also wonder if a flock doesn't stagger its molts so that not too...

The dermatologist told me: never use either rubbing alcohol or hydrogen peroxide on an open wound. Both kill the living exposed tissue. This is painful, as you yourself well know, and in this case the pain is because the chemical is causing injury. The other problem with this practice is that...

I could not see yur pix but fyi - I had a hen who got attacked by the rooster. She had a gaping wound about 3/4 of an inch by half an inch. It was down to the skull. I bought wound wash saline and cleaned it up. it streams out and cleans the wound. You can buy a kind with anesthetic too. Then I...

If you think about it, vaseline could not have much in the way of insulating properties. Think about a mitten, and how it keeps us warm. Vaseline is not much like that. But perhaps it prevents drying after frostbite. There are websites on this issue and human frostbite. Someone studied it and...

My hens have often fallen ill and gotten like this. When I have taken them to the vet, the birds have never been eggbound. What seems to help, some of the time, is to catch them before they get really debilitated and make sure they stay warm and eat. When they get really sick sometimes they do...

I had a rooster with frostbitten wattles and posted the same question a while ago. I read all the advice, decided he should be dubbed, but then I looked at the wattles and decided there was a lot of blood in there. I did not feel confident about doing dubbing myself, so I brought him to the...

The comb has nothing to do with the rooster's fertility. His testes are inside his chest. They are what produces the sex hormones.