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Yea!!!
Good job!
Yea!!!
2mth old Chick w/ LARGE HOLE in Chest! PLEASE READ?
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GREAT news! Best of luck. Bet she'll be just fine now!
Although she'll have a funny looking and probably featherless area there, LOL!
Although she'll have a funny looking and probably featherless area there, LOL!
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Normal saline is 1 tsp salt to one quart of water. It is an excellent wound cleanser, and is equivalent to the salinity of body fluids. Just one reference:
http://healthfieldmedicare.suite101.com/article.cfm/normal_saline_for_wound_care
I would not use as salted a solution as you describe on a wound.
Normal saline is 1 tsp salt to one quart of water. It is an excellent wound cleanser, and is equivalent to the salinity of body fluids. Just one reference:
http://healthfieldmedicare.suite101.com/article.cfm/normal_saline_for_wound_care
I would not use as salted a solution as you describe on a wound.
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The surgery sounds like it went wonderfully! I'm so glad to hear it.
Incidentally, I would remove the stitch later when she's healed up. You dont' want it to imbed.
Very exciting! You have to give your MIL a hug - she's a keeper, and so are you.
Incidentally, I would remove the stitch later when she's healed up. You dont' want it to imbed.
Very exciting! You have to give your MIL a hug - she's a keeper, and so are you.
Great news!! I am glad to hear that you and your MIL were able to stitch up the crop!
Good job and congrats.
Is it safe to leave the stitch in and not remove it. Couldn't you nurse friend have got some dissolving stitches from the Doctor?
I believe she will be jst fine now. Keep us updated as to her progress. I am really excited to hear how it ends, which I believe will be on a good note.
Is it safe to leave the stitch in and not remove it. Couldn't you nurse friend have got some dissolving stitches from the Doctor?
I believe she will be jst fine now. Keep us updated as to her progress. I am really excited to hear how it ends, which I believe will be on a good note.
The usual practice is to use removable stitches or skin glue on animals exterior stitches. I would never recommend a non-veterinarian to close a wound using skin glue, ever.
It's easy to remove stitches, really. Just wait until the area is healed, get a pair of cuticle scissors and tweezers, snip the stitch and pull it out by the knot. Generally, you wait at least 10 days for a clean surgically created wound. This one's going to be a 'wait and see' situation. Your MIL will know when the wound is ready.
It's easy to remove stitches, really. Just wait until the area is healed, get a pair of cuticle scissors and tweezers, snip the stitch and pull it out by the knot. Generally, you wait at least 10 days for a clean surgically created wound. This one's going to be a 'wait and see' situation. Your MIL will know when the wound is ready.
Great, hope it goes wonderfully.
Ddawn, It was a supersaturated salt solution I made up with direction from my vet. She called it saline. It was after my horse had gotten poked in the knee with a stick and had a huge hole in the knee that couldn't be stitched and couldn't be covered (drainage). I have a friend with a horse with the exact same injury use a different vet, no super saturated salt solution and had to have the mare euthanized due to infection, so that always amazed me. Here is a case I googled.
"a case successfully treated by irrigation with super saturated salt solution"
http://www.jbjs.org.uk/cgi/reprint/47-B/2/292.pdf
I was asking genuine questions, not trying to start anything with anyone. I've had many horse injuries over the years and maybe a dozen poultry. I've always had poultry heal really well with just me. The vet I used for my horses was wonderful, and she passed on a lot of great knowledge to me.
Ddawn, It was a supersaturated salt solution I made up with direction from my vet. She called it saline. It was after my horse had gotten poked in the knee with a stick and had a huge hole in the knee that couldn't be stitched and couldn't be covered (drainage). I have a friend with a horse with the exact same injury use a different vet, no super saturated salt solution and had to have the mare euthanized due to infection, so that always amazed me. Here is a case I googled.
"a case successfully treated by irrigation with super saturated salt solution"
http://www.jbjs.org.uk/cgi/reprint/47-B/2/292.pdf
I was asking genuine questions, not trying to start anything with anyone. I've had many horse injuries over the years and maybe a dozen poultry. I've always had poultry heal really well with just me. The vet I used for my horses was wonderful, and she passed on a lot of great knowledge to me.
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That saline solution was for a different reason. That was to draw infection out. This bird had no such infection inflammation, so for that reason the super saline wouldn't work.
I've used both saline solutions. One is applicable for internal inflammation and possible pus development in horses. The other one is applicable for less infected wounds, like this one. The less-concentrated version is comperable to the saline wound spray you can buy in a bottle.
Hmmm that gives me an idea, though. I wouldn't use the super saline concentrate except on say hoof abcesses, the puncture on your horse's knee (only vet approved tho), my own poison ivy. Very handy for that. But the lighter saline version in a 'travel sized' squirt bottle would be a good replacement for the expensive saline wound spray bottle sold at pharmacies. Hmmmm.
They both have their place in a barn. Just this time I don't think the hyperconcentrated saline would have done much but burn that crop and poison the bird.
I've used both saline solutions. One is applicable for internal inflammation and possible pus development in horses. The other one is applicable for less infected wounds, like this one. The less-concentrated version is comperable to the saline wound spray you can buy in a bottle.
Hmmm that gives me an idea, though. I wouldn't use the super saline concentrate except on say hoof abcesses, the puncture on your horse's knee (only vet approved tho), my own poison ivy. Very handy for that. But the lighter saline version in a 'travel sized' squirt bottle would be a good replacement for the expensive saline wound spray bottle sold at pharmacies. Hmmmm.
They both have their place in a barn. Just this time I don't think the hyperconcentrated saline would have done much but burn that crop and poison the bird.
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Saga continues... this is exhausting me... Came home from running errands (my Monday routine)... and she is leaking again, and I cannot see the stitch! I think she took it out
I can't believe we are facing doing this again. I am pleading with my 9y/o to help. Wasn't going to have help again til next Sat! Ahhhhh!!!!!!! If we do manage to get it stitched again, I will HAVE to cover it.
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