12ish day old chick with full thickness leg injury*warning slightly graphic pic

[townchicks]

The Coban you are using is fine. Vet wrap is the same thing.

Did not know that, I've never heard of Coban. Good to know.

 

[casportpony]

How's the chick doing?

 

[Jammons]

So she is still alive, foot and leg above and below the wound are still significantly swollen. The wound itself appears to be granulating and actually getting smaller. We are spraying with Vetericyn and putting hen helper ointment on it daily. Wish I would have snapped a pic earlier, will try to get a couple tomorrow if I remember. We are just gonna stay the course of this treatment I guess. She’s not a very compliant model but u can see the size difference in her feet. Thanks for checking back with us

 

[casportpony]

So glad to see she's getting better, I look forward to following her progress.

 

[Jammons]

So glad to see she's getting better, I look forward to following her progress.

So here’s a couple of photos of the actual wound again. I feel like it’s improving some but I’ve noticed over the last couple of days that she seems to have developed what I think is maybe a splayed leg. I thought I had enough shavings in the bottom of the cage. It has a plastic but textured floor. She’s almost dragging it. I have since put down some rubbery shelf liner underneath the shavings for better traction.

 

[casportpony]

That's looking pretty good! Can you take a video of her walking, upload it to YouTube or Vimeo then copy and paste the link here?

 

[Jammons]

 

[Jammons]

That left foot points in the opposite direction

 

[Jammons]

We attempted to make a brace with the Coban, it looks a little long so we did shorten it some. This would be easier if she wasn’t quite so big

 

[Jammons]

That's looking pretty good! Can you take a video of her walking, upload it to YouTube or Vimeo then copy and paste the link here?