emergency care for injuries

  1. Skin Wounds: Healing with Honey and Sugar

    Skin Wounds: Healing with Honey and Sugar

    You're headed out to the chicken coop, ho-hum, just as you would any other day. As you catch sight of your flock, something is wrong. One of your birds is missing a large portion of feathers and skin. The coop is dirty, chicken poop is everywhere, and the injured chicken may already have dirt...
    • Raptorchick
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    • emergency care for injuries emergency supplies first aid injury pecked severely racoon attack rooster attack sugar for wounds wound care wounded chicken
    • Comments: 6
    • Category: Injuries, Diseases, & Cures
  2. L

    Sick Quail?!

    I have two 11week old Japanese quail and one of them seems I'll, she's puffed up all day and her tail bobs when she breathes she also has something weird happening with her feet, the first digits are curled in but only the first digits meaning she often has trouble walking. My quails are kept...
    • LuckyMotherhen
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    • emergency care for injuries injury quail sick
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Quail
  3. gypsydoll96

    Care after attack from predator, ideas and honesty needed

    Something went after my girls early this morning. I was awoke from alarm cries from my flock and when I went out there there were feathers everywhere and the girls were all in the run. I searched and found our beautiful 10 month old Austrolorp was pulled though a hole and out of the enclosed...
  4. B

    Limping chicken :^( help me out

    My 8-9 month old austrolorp(no eggs yet) has been limping really bad lately on her right leg, she had the same problem a few weeks ago and she fully recovered and was walking normally but I noticed her limping again a few days ago. I checked her leg and there are no signs of visable injury and...
  5. A

    HELP!!! Broken egg on 19th day

    i have an egg that is due in two days and i was opening the incubator (which i know im not supposed to do in lockdown but i have a staggered hatch) and the incubator lid fell on an egg and its really badly cracked and had a little trail of blood. i feel terrible as this is my first major...
  6. NoFlyBackFarm

    BUMBLEFOOT EMERGENCY!!!!!

    Okay so a random chicken came into my yard last night. She had severe Bumblefoot and feather loss. She is not our chicken. What should I do? We kept her over night on ACV oregno and garlic powder. She gorged herself on our feed till her crop was hard. Is this normal. (Also it is a skinny Welsummer)
  7. Dr Peckenstein

    !!! HELP !!!!MY CHICK MAY NOT MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT!!!!

    i received chicks through mail for the first time and I've had them for abt three days but one of my silkie chicks had been lethargic since we got her, at first she seemed normal, she slept a lot but I saw her eat and drink just fine then sleep again. By second day she was wobbling on one foot...
  8. GMarie65

    HELP! YOUNG HEN ACTING LIKE SHE IS OCD

    I noticed yesterday that my 14 week old Araucana hen was acting like she was OCD or like she has a crazy case of ADHD. She runs around like she does not know where she is going and she keeps her head down pecking the ground for food at all times. She was fine a few days ago. Now out of the...
  9. WillGriffin03

    Chicken with one eye closed

    Hi, My Cream legbar keeps having her eye closed, it's been like this for 24 hours and I don't know what to do, do I take her to the vet? Keep her in solitary? Eye drops? How on earth did she get this? I'm really worried as I need to breed with her! Please help ASAP!
  10. TrishPresley

    Medicinal herbs for ducks

    Can ducks have echinacea and goldenseal? I'm caring for an adult female Muscovy that was attacked by snapping turtles and her injuries are starting to smell. She drinks but won't eat. I've been giving her nutridrench in her water but would love to do more for her. She is a wild duck and funds...
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