I'm amazed at how fast chickens start the healing process. When first noticed I packed the wound with neosporin and waited for help in accessing her condition. We found our supply's were inadequate and went to purchase supplies. We collected her and sprayed antibacterial/antifungal on the wound...
Girls can be SO mean to one another lol. I guess our child rearing kicks in even on chickens, we flushed it with peroxide and sprayed vetracine on the area. We have isolated her for tonight in a pet carrier and we already had a isolation cage ready for the next broody hen(whole other story) for...
Thank you....it looks worse than it is. We are going to get a small supply of "Blue Kote"(antibiotic antifungal) in addition to neosporin and saline solution. ...I appreciate your quick reply to my almost emergency.
Good morning all, this is not an emergency(yet) I hope. We have a 10-11 week old barred Rock pullet that has an open wound on the back of her skull that was noticed this morning. I noticed feathers out of place and didn't think much of it. Today is the day we had decided to integrate her to the...