I've had great advice from folks here about Aster, my hen who was attacked by a raccoon on Sunday night. Here's what we've done for her so far:
removed her from the flock
she's in the garage in a tall cardboard box with pine shavings
cleaned head wound (punctures, superficial scrapes) with hydrogen peroxide
"painted" on Blue-Kote per our Agway guy
offering water, rescue remedy, pedialyte, applesauce, wet mash - just about anything we think of
at least every 30 mins we go out and speak softly to her, offer her the pedialyte on a spoon (she backs away from spoon, and if i follow beak with spoon, she'll take a few sips, but she's barely, barely getting much, she's not eating at all, she doesn't appear to see the spoon coming either)
Any other ideas? Once you put on Blue-Kote, do you put on anything else? Someone here said NOT to put on Blue-Kote, but pack the puncture wounds with neosporin - but that was AFTER I put the Blue-Kote on! I'm thinking that putting on Neosporin at this point would not work cause the Blue-Kote is on her?
Or is time just going to give us our answer? I will say that she's the toughest hen we have, fiesty and the top of the pecking order. So maybe she has some fight in her.
Thanks so much for all the kind words and support.
Kara
removed her from the flock
she's in the garage in a tall cardboard box with pine shavings
cleaned head wound (punctures, superficial scrapes) with hydrogen peroxide
"painted" on Blue-Kote per our Agway guy
offering water, rescue remedy, pedialyte, applesauce, wet mash - just about anything we think of
at least every 30 mins we go out and speak softly to her, offer her the pedialyte on a spoon (she backs away from spoon, and if i follow beak with spoon, she'll take a few sips, but she's barely, barely getting much, she's not eating at all, she doesn't appear to see the spoon coming either)
Any other ideas? Once you put on Blue-Kote, do you put on anything else? Someone here said NOT to put on Blue-Kote, but pack the puncture wounds with neosporin - but that was AFTER I put the Blue-Kote on! I'm thinking that putting on Neosporin at this point would not work cause the Blue-Kote is on her?
Or is time just going to give us our answer? I will say that she's the toughest hen we have, fiesty and the top of the pecking order. So maybe she has some fight in her.
Thanks so much for all the kind words and support.
Kara
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