if no skin to sew it to I would let it re attach on it own. If you cannot pull skin up together to sew then it is best to let heal open. If you can sew skin to skin and leave thread tied long with gap and stretched will cut down on healing time. Sometimes just 1 or 2 pulls together makes big...
pockets will go back together if hooked to good tissue if that skin still has circulation and blood flow to it. Always make sure clean and no dead tissue under it before sew it. Lots of good water with little salt added to it workds good. I even will bring water to boil on stove let cool and...
The whole thing with time and sewing up an animal is after 24 hours you have dead tissue and scabs and yes more bacteria in wound. I usually sew it loose so can drain and you have a chance you may have to take out sutures and clean would and re sew it up. Most of time you clean it good it will...
Sorry I was working and didn't get back to you. It just takes longer for open wound to heal if you don't sew them up. I have sewn up chickens for 20 yrs. and all always heal. The whole issue is getting black tissue and scabs all out of wound so will have only good tissue in there.l I don't...
If your chicken doesn';t eat I take and open their mouths and give them bites of food. Put it to back of throat and they will swallow it. If she looks like she is run down I would give her few bites of raw beef liver. That would help boost her up from blood loss. She needs fed high protien...
I would take the other half of penicillin pill and give it to her. Open her mouth and plop it in and push it to back of throat and she will swallow it. 500 mg for her is not too much. Then I would get good dressing on her on the area. Antibiotic ointment of some kind works best for chickens...