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MountainMamaHST

In the Brooder
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Nov 17, 2012
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One dead, one carried off, one badly injured, one pretty badly injured (she tried to protect the others), one with minor injuries. About 7 weeks old. Three dogs drug their cage brooder out, tore into it. Looks like back injuries. What do I do? I'm cleaning them as best I can but I'm scared I'll hurt them more moving them around. All have stood up, two have walked around (the protector keeps laying with a wing covering the severely injured girl). I just am scared for them. Honey water can help, right?
 
This EXACT thing happened to my flock. I had put my hen under a heat lamp isolated from the others. I'm pretty sure it had broken bones and it did not move. I would take out the old chick feeder and waterer and put in reach of the hen, not too close though. DO NOT wash it unless it cut to the point that it may get an infection. If you have a calcium source(ground shells, whey etc.), mix it with the food. LET IT SLEEP! do not keep waking it up because you think its dying. I wouldn't recomend keeping the chicken entirely away from the flock, because a lonely chicken is a noisy chicken, and it needs all the energy it has. Mine lived on, though it was smaller than the rest of the flock, and grew white feathers mixed with its normal red coat. She died in another dog attack because she was the slowest in the flock. They were about the same age, which is good because they are full of that needed energy. Good luck!
 
Thank you! I'm going to get some hydrogen peroxide and am putting a salve on them in a bit. I gave them water with AC vinegar and a bit of honey and am trying to let them rest. I buried my little white girl, Hedwig
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I had to separate the lesser injured, Heromine, from Clover and Mother Clucker. M.C. is the second worst off and was defending the other chickens. M.C. will NOT leave Clover's side and keeps hovering over her or laying with a wing on top of Clover. She's amazing.

RIP Ember and Hedwig
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Okay so it's gone from bad to worse. I went out and was taking care of them and I noticed that M.C.'s bottom was wet and smelled. I let her nap on my while I dematted her feathers and worked to her wound. It wasn't bad so I cleaned it up and put on my salve. I continued to let her nap and brewed over the whole event when I noticed that the paper towel I stuck under her bottom was now soaked and smelled. I held her and rolled her over to find a SEVERE puncture about a quarter inch from her vent, leaking bowel fluids and blood. Her vent was swollen and poop was dripping out and matting in her feathers. I don't know what a chicken's body temp is supposed to be but she is HOT. I'm scared she's septic. I need to know if I should try something or put her down. I don't want her to suffer but I really don't want to kill my favorite chicken :(
 
I'm sorry to hear that... I'm not a vet, but I'd give her a day or two to see if the fluid keeps dripping. I would keep her from eating food for a few hours just to stop the oozing for a while. The last thing you want is for the bowel fluids into her blood, for it could be more serious. For sure, now I'd keep her from the other chickens. Put some salve into the cut, perhaps it will scar over the blood vessels and the digestive puncture. If she is really hot, don't try to cool her down. I'd tell you to take the water, but if she is having a high tempature, you DO NOT want to take away the water. My sympathies to you and your chicken, if by tommorow she is still "leaking", I think you're going to have to put her down
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More salve tonight. Both were up while I was in there doing my night check and where I would normally close up "shop" for the day. They ate and drank in front of me and Clover stretched both her legs and wings. She did seem to baby her right leg a little. M.C. is keeping her head low, staying puffed out, and wouldn't lay down while I was in there. She freaked out when I tried to put salve on her and had to wipe the poo off her again. Glad I have all this week off from work...
Own came down and we talked. She wants to make things right, which I wasn't heartless enough to tell her she couldn't bring my birds back to life, but I thought about it... It took bravery for her to come down so humbly and speak to me. She promised to keep her dogs on her property from now on and had even ordered a fence. Let's see if it happens.
 
I am so sorry to hear about your chickens , Whats with the dogs lately we had a bad storm come through a few days ago and woke up to find a dog busted a hole in the run and kill one of the chickens Thank God none others were hurt . it sucked cause the chicken the dog killed was one that i took to the vet with a chest infection and it just battled that and lived ,one of my favorites and the only one that let my daughter hold it :(( . but if it is a deep wound it is best to sometimes not put thick stuff like salve on it" if yours is thick" I would agree with dawg53 and mix 50/50 water and iodine / betadine the reason is because some of the worst bacteria infections are anaerobic bacteria they cant live in air so if you close .cover or cream over a cut or deeper wound it can grow this kind of bacteria so i would just wash it at least once a day with a mix of 50/50 betadine water and hydrogen peroxide leave it uncovered or if you cover it do so with something like gauze because it is very breathable http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-anaerobic-bacteria.htm I hope this helps and God bless
 
The only thing I can add that I haven't read yet is that this hen should be on an antibiotic especially if she has a deep wound like you said. Heat is a great sign of infection also. I can't tell you what you should put her on though, hopefully a more experienced reader will post.
 
Garlic is a very powerful antibiotic that doesn't harm good bacteria. Even with humans it can knock some stuff, like viruses, that won't get killed by the most potent antibiotics. I'm not sure but some chooks are supposed to be sensitive to it. I've never had that problem with my chooks but won't pooh-pooh it because it's a complicated world. But I use it as a rule, as much as the chooks want.

Pine tar, aka Stockholm tar, does amazing things to wounds, in the most messed up usually-fatal injuries, and kills pain almost instantly, and works rapidly. I've used it for pretty much everything without a single failure, no matter what caused the wound or how far the infection had gone. On a more gory note, I'm not squeamish, so I've stuck my pine-tarred fingers deep into wounds to make sure the tar got there. The animal actually found this a good thing since it killed the pain that was deeper in. Gross, I know, but he had gangrene. Pine tar killed the gangrene in one application but I gave him another the net day or so to make sure. I'm not sure about using anything caustic or acidic in wounds, I think you'd burn out the good healing cells as well as the infection, and the infection would recover quicker than the good cells. Everyone should have stockholm/pine tar in my opinion, for themselves as well as their animals, I've never seen anything heal so quickly and leave less of a scar.
 

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