wound care

  1. C

    Our cat got a chick

    She has a minor looking wound near one of her legs. I’ve cleaned it and put Neosporin on it. It seems to have stopped bleeding. Is there anything else I can do? I imagine the biggest concern is infection? Tia
  2. A

    Deep pecking wound

    I have a chicken with a pretty deep wound. I isolated her and rinsed her wound out with saline. I am spraying her with Banixx too. She keeps trying to pick at it so I am considering putting a child shirt on her to prevent her pecking at it. The wound is towards the end of her wing near her tail...
  3. JoanieShrubs

    Lowest pullet attacked by hens

    Hi friends, I have ten chickens living in a large covered run in four prefab coops (with ventilation panels added) so there are 2 or 3 birds in each house and they roost with their closest friends / age group with whom they entered the flock. I’m raising three Sicilian Buttercup pullets who...
  4. S

    Removing Dead Tissue--Help!

    Hey chicken tenders, one of my favorite chickens has a necrotic wound under her wing that they vet wanted $1k to surgically debride. I can't afford that, so I left with antibiotics and anti inflammatories, and I'm going to try to clean it up myself. Has anyone ever dealt with dead tissue before...
  5. J

    What do I do with the wound from here?

    I have 19 5 week old Buff Orpington chicks and this morning I found one that was bleeding with the other chicks pecking at the wounded area. I removed her from the pen they're currently in (about 3ft x 6ft, and will be expanded again soon until they can be moved to the outside run/coop) and am...
  6. Backyardtut

    WARNING: GRAPHIC PHOTOS Injured rooster… should I put him down?

    My rooster, Pepper, flew into my 8 month old Pyrenees puppies’ pen and they nearly played with him to death. They have been around chickens their entire life and are not aggressive towards them, but they get very excited anytime anyone or anything enters their pen. In this case, my rooster was...
  7. R

    Hen has wound on head

    I have a hen that was attacked by a predator some time last night. She is 1-2 years old and lives in a large chicken tractor and attached run with 13 other hens and 2 roosters. They have pine bedding. She does not seem lighter than the others. She is awake and alert but somewhat subdued after...
  8. DanAndQuails

    Treat or Euthanize? — Turkey In Bad Shape

    Hi everyone! I wish I was coming with better news. My broad breasted white turkey, Evelyn, is not doing well at all. Earlier yesterday she was doing fine going after food. Last night she had one swollen eye. This morning both eyes nearly sealed shut and was really acting sick. Not eating or able...
  9. A

    Day old chick is leaking beige fluid from back wound?

    So basically yesterday morning I woke up to find a random chick in with my girls, one of these sneak clutch moments, and clearly the poor thing had been stamped and/or pecked, because they have a few cuts and wounds. Fresh fresh baby. I managed to stem the bleeding from the ones they have around...
  10. S

    Turkey Hen hurt (large skin rip) while mating- need help with treatment

    Hi all, My female turkey was hurt last night when our much larger tom (who I don't want mating with her, it was an accident they were together). She has a fairly large patch of skin (maybe 4x5") peeled open underneath her wing above her hip. It isn't a deep wound, but it's a large area...
    • StephJuno
    • Thread
    • mating turkey wound care
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Turkeys
  11. arstarr

    Peck wounds, Missing Feathers Not Healing

    So my hens are about 9 months old and I've always had trouble with my them pecking each other and pulling feathers out. I've tried blu-kote, Vetericyn Antimicrobial Poultry Care Spray, letting them free range more to get away from each other, and vitamin supplements in their water. Nothing seems...
  12. Lilybljm

    Worried about duck.

    I had nineteen ducks until yesterday morning, now I have four. Not something I ever wanted to say. A mink got into the coop early in the morning and killed 15 of them, injured two, caused one to hurt herself, and left a single duck unscathed. I’m devastated. Somehow though, it’s the unscathed...
    • Lilybljm
    • Thread
    • advice appreciated ducks traumatized wound care
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Ducks
  13. J

    1 hen with a head injury

    I'm a new chickeneer with 6 hens and 1 rooster ( all different breeds and all between 7 and 9 months old) This morning when I let then out of the coop, there was blood splatter on the outside of their feeder (a fair bit and feeder was knocked off Hanger and sitting on ground) some blood on run...
  14. Launchpad

    5 ducks. 10 feet. Some likely bumble foot

    Yesterday I posted that one of my ducks, a young male Cayuga, might have bumble foot. As I am not an expert, today took each duck and individually inspected there feet. For each duck, each was put in the bathtub with about 1/2 inch of warm water and epsom salt. I just sat there and made sure...
    • Launchpad
    • Thread
    • bandage bumble foot coop ducks wound care
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Ducks
  15. purefoysgirl

    Pack or not pack tunneling wounds on flystrike rooster?

    On Sunday, September 25, I checked my rooster, Alan, once he was up on the roost because he smelled awful, had been walking around with his tail down, and wasn't acting like himself. I checked with a flashlight and saw maggots streaming across what I thought was his butt, idk it was dark and I...
  16. Farmers Chicken Farm

    Bedding for hospital coop

    Hi, I have a lavender Guinea fowl who somehow got stuck on her back while we were at the store. In her attempt to get upright, she scratched herself raw under her wing. We got a small coop kit for a hospital coop. We are keeping her there so we can easily catch her to clean/ slather antibiotic...
  17. TheFugitivePen

    Torn Earlobe

    Hello, friends! I discovered my head pullet, Tickety Boo, has a torn earlobe. It is almost completely torn off except for a tiny piece of flesh at the bottom. She does not currently seem to be in pain (though I know it HAS to hurt) or bloody. She's eating and running around like usual, but I...
  18. G

    Fly strike & possible rat attack

    Our biggest rooster overheated a few days ago, he's big and active and doesn't stop to care for himself if he feels "at risk" ... We're fighting a big rat problem this summer and he's killed a few himself already, so I assume he's been worried about the rats and not drinking ... Well he decided...
  19. J

    Chicken has a hole on the top of her head

    Hi, I think my rooster pulled too hard on the feathers on top of the chicken’s head and that caused the skin to come off and if I look inside I can see a hole. I’ve been cleaning it with veticiryn and applying neosporin twice a day. The piece of skin is still attached to her and I keep trying...
  20. ryansmom06

    Fox attack

    My flock was attacked by a fox while free ranging (my coop is very secure, I went into the house to help my daughter. This was in the middle of the day.) This is the first attack in almost five years. Anyway he killed 8 and took 1, 12 are fine and the last one got away by jumping into the pond...
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