- Jul 20, 2012
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Hi everyone, I just joined backyard chickens while searching for advice on what to do about my daughter's little baby bantam chick. The chick is about 5 weeks old and was hatched by her mama in our backyard. They are my daughter's pets and she truly loves them. I think some nasty animal tried to pull it through the chicken fencing and ended up pulling it's wing off at the elbow (I think it's called the humerus) The chick is eating and drinking and pooping. We cleaned the wound with saline and put betadine on it then put some triple antibiotic ointment on it. We brought the chick and mama inside and put them in a large plastic crate with a screen over it to keep flies out, since it's warm here. On the advice of tractor supply I put some sav-a-chick and Duromycin-10 in it's water. It seems that the wing was pulled off right out of the joint leaving the end of the bone intact--there is no shattered bone, but a small portion of the end of the bone is exposed and not covered with any tissue. We handle our chickens a lot so he is calm when we treat his wing. There was only a little bleeding which was already stopped when we first found him. He seems okay walking around eating and drinking and laying with mama. It's so tiny I can't bandage it. He can move the portion of the wing that is left. What should I do about the little piece of exposed bone? Will tissue ever grow back over it? We're new chicken owners, and the only way I can describe the end of the bone is that it looks like the bottom of a drumstick chicken wing piece in the grocery store. He's a little sweetheart and I'd like him not to lose the portion of the wing that he has left since he can flap it and move it. Please help me. Should I put Blucote on it? I was afraid that he would preen and ingest it and cause more trouble. His mother is being wonderful she is not pecking him at all and instead cuddles him under her wing. Beautiful to watch. My daughter is on chick watch to make sure he doesn't get pecked. I don't want to take him from his mama because he gets very upset when she's not around. Any advice would be appreciated.....Thanks!! This is day 3 of the injury.