Thank you for your kindness! I use Pampered Poultry because the owner has them made as part of project to give work to 3rd world women. Plus Julie herself sewed ruffles on an apron for my silkie that went to a support chickens meeting. We didn't get pictures for her but I wish I did. Not only...
That is an excellent idea. I have saddles I ordered thru pampered poultry and am going to put saddles on 5 of my white rocks to distract them when I add a hen back whose back had scratch marks on it from her feathers being worn off. I put her in the silkie barn so her back could heal. Cathryn...
You can go longer than 14 days if you think it is needed. After you start the blu kote I am hoping that the wound can hurry up, get the new skin filled in, so she can start growing feathers. After she is off antibiotics I'd give her probiotics. I use gro2max, found it at Twin City Poultry...
I agree with Eggcessive, Please do not ever stitch a chicken wound together, let it heal, grow new skin and feathers. Stitches often = ingrown feathers = abscesses and infections.
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As long as the wound gets smaller with time, all should be ok. If the wound is not getting smaller I'd put her on an antibiotic like duramycin or tetroxy HCA 280 or penicillin shots, along with the blue kote and the other spray. You have an excellent basic knowledge of what to do for her and are...
Do you have to buy antibiotics from a vet? You can't go to your farm store or on line and get what you want? Unless she gets infection I would not use an antibiotic. If you have time, take more pictures. I am on my way outside to feed and water and will check back when I am done. Cathryn MI
From the beginning. You already cleaned with peroxide to get debris out of her wound, I would not use it again, unless she gets feathers or gunk in it. Sounds like you have it all under control. The only thing I would add is a once a day blue kote spray and stay away from a greasy ointment...
I'd cleanse the wound once with peroxide, pluck all feathers that can get into the wound away from it, fill the hole with silvadene, cover the wound with blue kote, put her in a hospital cage with heat she can get under or away from (90-98 directly under the light). Everyday I would spray her...
My friend ordered chicks from them and both times the chicks were soggy bodied and sick with a respiratory infection. I couldn't save them and would never order from them.
I looked the park up and it is pretty good sized. Where are we meeting in the park? I have extra silkie and chicks I can bring along with--- I'll think of a yummy dish. Cathryn rainbowsilkies MI
I have one blue pullet frizzle/sizzle silkie. My breeding pens are set up so there will more soon. I have Claude McAllister's, Seven Oaks Game Farm line, (he passed away) with my show silkies.
Amos Rovey raised and sold quality reds for many years. I bought quality reds from him in Litchfield, IL, in 1995, and he'd been raising them for over 20 years. I've raised reds since then. Cathryn rainbowsilkies MI
Yes, that is my silkie pullet at 4 months of age. She is a 3rd generation cross of red to UK lavender also known as Pearl Gray. I bought reds and lavenders back in 93/94. An elderly man by Brighton MI, had lavenders he'd imported with a friend, and Amos Rovey in Litchfield IL, had the reds. I...
I am curious, why the negative discussion? I raise beautiful, NPIP silkies, in 14 colors. Seven standard and 7 AOV. I have also small breeding flocks of sizzles, frizzled, and naked necks also in separate barns.I have dear Claude McAllister's sizzles and frizzles/Seven Oaks Game Farm. He passed...
My silkie roosters and cockerels are nice; I also work with them and train them so when they go to a show they know what is expected behavior wise. Agressive silkies are not allowed to reproduce here, they go into the soup pot. My roosters are affectionate and beautiful.