Ok...so i of course am busy these last few days with family. I have continued to do saline rinses and neosporin, really slowed down on antibiotics and started throwing more probiotics in the mix cause she has a combo of normal stool and dark sticky diarrhea. i really slammed her i think.
i am...
Overall the wounds are healing. Not festering. She even picked her own scap to reveal some healed tissue. i had to take a day off of antibiotics and today i barely gave her any because she definitely has loose stool. I have probiotics. I will be sure to add that in the plan. She isnt getting...
Ok so have some not so great shots of the neck.
The front right flap wraps around l under the flap is getting rinsed and sprayed with stuff but im not sure i can manage to get these feathers out. The flap is easily and inch deep so do i just let it dangle and air out or start wrapping it. I...
not using blue kote or chlorohexy...been doing good with saline and vetricyn. have a newborn so once i get him all settled i will be goin in for some detail work on the neck. i will take pics and i hope to get some solid intel. like i said the neck is the make it or break it for this hen. no...
her eyes! i know. she had just gone through a detail cleaning and she was starting to shut down. thats when i choose to back off a bit and offer her some pear to get her blood sugar back up. so much pain i know. i'm rooting for her.
Wow! thanks so much everyone. i'm oddly optimistic. so i didnt do blue kote...i dont want any additional pain. i'm following safe guidelines for aspirin. although i wish i could relieve her more. i immediately thought...wow how similar to a burn victim so i will check into the EMT gel...
Had a break in and my super chicken Ginger got seriously injured. She is a very strong hen so before you doubt her just know she is a survivor. I need to know if i should say goodbye or keep treating.
The sitch:
She has been treated for 5 days
With saline rinses, vetricyn, amoxicillin, aspirin...