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Ok. I have messed with her so much today. When we redo the wound care in the morning i will leave the dressing off. She is outside but in an isolation crate. Dont want the other girls picking at it. Does anyone have any idea how long something like this would take to heal?

Back in the separation crate. Got the venterycin and Nutridrench this morning. Rinsed the wound real well with warm salt water and patted dry. Then soaked area with venterycin and also soaked the gauze pads in it. Wrapped with regular gauze and then a layer of that weird gauze that sticks to...

Another picture

Here is one from this morning just before I flushed with warm salt water and trimmed more feathers back

I don't and when i checked her last she was sleeping. I plan to go to tractor supply first thing in the morning to get the items you mentioned and dress the wound again. I will take pictures and post then.

Thanks. Is the Veterycin and Nutridrench something I could find at a Tractor Supply? Is the Nutridrench just something to add to her water or food? Should i be doing anything for pain management?

Earlier today my girls were foraging in the back yard and a dog from up the street got in and attacked the flock. Only 1 bird appears to be injured. Gertie was chased and got pinned under the coop and i had to beat the dog with a bat to get it out of there. The dog was biting her back. It ripped...

Thanks for the help everyone but Dora passed about an hour ago. I learned a lot from today's thread though and truly appreciate the time you took to help me through this.

I may have screwed up big time. I have been giving them the crushed oyster shell thinking it was for grit too. But I am guessing from the posts above that it is not? I should be giving them a separate grit? She has now developed a real spongy part right around her crop and she burped and it...

And her breathing seems really labored now. I think I am losing her

Also she just passed some real watery poop. No form to it at all.

Ok it feels like a 1, but just now I felt a weird lump by her throat. By where her crop is. She also won't stand up anymore

Good morning all. No change in Dora. She is still resting. Hubby is on his way to get the calcium. There wasn't anything open last night. One thing I noticed that has been bothering me is she feels really skinny. I don't handle them much, they don't like to be picked up but now that she is sick...

I am in Maryland. I just shut all the lights off in the spare bedroom so she could sleep. She was a pullet and started laying about a month after we got her last spring. I didn't know that about the oyster shell and will separate it from now on. We also give them treats we get from the feed...

We purchase a layer feed and also add in crushed oyster shell. I will grind up some tums and put them in a little egg. Will try everything you guys suggested. She seems really tired. I am sitting in here with her and she keeps falling asleep. I hate to see her like this, she is one of my favorites.

So the belly doesn't feel swollen. She didn't seem real bothered by me feeling around. Forgot to mention that her vent seemed normal, not swollen or red.

I got her as a pullet last spring. I will go check her belly now

I am looking for some help. One of my hens started acting abnormally today. She is very lethargic and when she walks she is keeping her back end down. A couple days ago we found and egg yolk and the membrane in the nesting box. It was popped. Since then I don't think she has laid another egg...