Arizona Chickens

[tricketts_2001]

I am so distraught.......something got in my pen the other night and seriously injured two of my chickens. I am new to chickens and so at first I thought one just had a broke wing. I came home early from work yesterday to get some co-flex to fix the wing and in tuning the chicken over found a puncture wound in her chest cavity. That freaked me out since there was no blood anywhere. I then inspected the others chickens and found that my buff has ben injured pretty bad as well on the butt. The lady at the feed store looked at them for me butt she says she is not sure about the one with the hole. I have irrigated both chickens wounds with sterile water and antibacterial soap, applied betadyne, and then applied this spray bond wound stuff the feed store recommended, it is silver when you spray it on, kinda like powder. It is supposed to block stuff from getting in the wound. The also said to give them duramycin.
I have regular amoxicillian, should I give that to them instead? They made it through the night and they are eating and drinking. I don't know if I should try to suture that wound closed.
There isn't anyone in queen creek that might know enough to maybe look at them for me is there?
I just feel awful. They smell bad too and I don't know if that means they are infected or what.
Any help would be great. I can post pics tonight.

 

[gckiddhouse]

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Which one? They are all a pain in my rump! If you mean the egg eater, she is still out there... The leghorn started laying and her egg seems to be there everyday. I am not sure the others are laying at all. I don't see any evidence in the boxes.

We dusted them all last night. The two Polish are still miserable with itchy skin and they are scratching their feathers out. Putting some stuff on them this morning. Wish I knew what that was.

 

[NoSkiveez]

Its raining! We finally got some rain. I hope it lasts for awhile!

Today is quail hatch day. So far 3 have hatched! I have 6 eggs that should hatch. I wish the hatch had been closer to the hatch day of the last ones I hatched out so they could go in together. These things can be savage little beasts.

I'm getting excited about the next hatching. There are 6 blue eggs in there. I will candle them as soon as the quail come out.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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You need to check the wounds for maggots--when you say they smell bad, that is my first thought. Maggots themselves can eat a hole in a bird (YES, they do eat live flesh; only a very few maggots are the kind that only eat dead flesh). IFF you find maggots, thoroughly flush the wounds with regular strength hydrogen peroxide. Do not dilute it. You will do this once only, to get all the maggots out and at least partially disinfect the wound. You need to remove every single one. Apply SWAY or FLYS OFF ointment to the wound, it will kill any maggots that somehow remained or eggs that have not yet hatched. Also apply ivermectin pour-on to the wingpit. The wound (any puncture wound) needs to stay open to the air. After the initial irrigation with hydrogen peroxide, you can irrigate daily with diluted povidone iodine or diluted hydrogen peroxide.

They need a strong antibiotic such as Baytril, which is only available by prescription. If you can, try to get an appointment with Dr Burke at Cornerstone Animal Hospital in Gilbert. If you cannot get an appointment or a prescription for Baytril, get injectible penicillin, needles and syringes at the feed store (it is OTC). Check in the Emergency Section for dose. With an open wound and fly season you really need to keep them indoors away from flies and bacteria.


www.browneggblueegg.com has an article on Flystrike that I wrote several years ago.


If it turns out to not be flystrike, most of the treatment is the same, except that you shouldn't apply the insecticide ointment, and you will need to remove or better clean necrotic or infectious tissue.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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[tricketts_2001]

There are no maggots and we have flushed her out really good. Both birds are in the house and I won't be putting them back outside until they are fully healed. Where would you inject the penicilian at?

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

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This really gave me the willies! I hope I never have to deal with this. I'm sure I could do it to save a chicken but I sure don't want to.

edited to add: Thanks for the Sweet PDZ info!

 

[dofnup]

... and I just learned to never read anything with the word "maggots" in it when I just poured myself a big bowl of cereal

Hey today I got 5 eggs!! ... but none of them were even remotely green (not holding my breath for blue with these "americanas" as the kid at the feed store called them). Is it possible for EE's to lay regular brown eggs, or did I miss a day?? I'm confuzzled

Oh! And I almost forgot my second question ... does laying have anything to do with the "hunker down" that hens do? It seems that once one of the chickens stops being flighty and starts crouching when I get near them and let me pet them, they start laying. Am I imagining things?

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

gckiddhouse: You've had more than your share of chicken trouble this year. I hope this is the beginning of better times for you and your birds.

dofnup: Congratulations on the eggs. My 6 birds showed the first slowdown in eggs this past week. Before I was getting either 5 or 6 eggs a day. Two days ago was the worst, I only got 3 eggs from six birds. Most days its 4-5. I don't think EEs lay brown eggs, but I could be wrong. The "squat" behavior precedes the onset of egg laying.

tricketts_2001: did you figure out how the predator got into your coop? Sorry to hear about the trauma they experienced (you too, I'm sure). Too bad it wasn't under better circumstances, but welcome to BYC.

 

[tricketts_2001]

Good news.....I came home today from work and the chickens #1 are still alive so that was good. We cleaned them up some from their own poop since they are not moving around tons. I removed the co-flex and things look good. No funny smells, other than poop. That silver bond stuff seems to work well and their was hardly any drainage. Their combs and waddles have returned to their bright red color. They ate some fruit and the are eating and drinking good. I hope they are going to make it.