Best chicken wound glue recommend?

[Polaloca]

My dog attacked my chick, and removed a good chunk of skin where I cannot stitch it. And when she expands her wings the skin retrieves, and the wound reopens. I would hate to hurt her more by giving her stitches. Would wound glue help this? Help. First time chicken mom.

 

[Eggcessive]

Do you have any pictures of the wound? Many times a wound will close up on it’s own with cleaning with saline and applying an antibiotic ointment twice a day. While some use superglue or crazy glue on wounds to close them, I can’t really advise without seeing a wound. Is a vet possible?

 

[Susan Skylark]

If it gets wide when she moves the wound is under a lot of tension, stitches or glue will likely pull out unless you can keep her from moving the joint (wrap the wing to the body). Also bite wounds like to abscess. For both reasons keeping it open and clean and letting it heal in on its own are likely your best option.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Do you have any pictures of the wound? Many times a wound will close up on it’s own with cleaning with saline and applying an antibiotic ointment twice a day. While some use superglue or crazy glue on wounds to close them, I can’t really advise without seeing a wound. Is a vet possible?

We had a hen with a wide wound like OP describes. We treated her as @Eggcessive describes here and she healed up perfectly. The wound healed from the outer edges first, gradually growing smaller and smaller until it completely disappeared. I think trying to stitch or glue a wound like this would be a mistake.

 

[FunClucks]

I had a chicken who got injured by a flockmate and ended up with an ~ inch diameter open gash in the skin on the back of her neck, almost up by her head. I sprayed it with Vetericyn to try and clean it, and just kept her isolated and the wound sprayed occasionally. It healed up, all her feathers grew back, and you'd never know she'd been injured. Every time she moved her head, it would open/close the wound, and there wasn't a good way to bandage it without her hurting herself more to get it off. Within a month it was gone. It looked really gnarly when it was trying to form a scab, and I had to stop spraying it for the scab to form as much as it could. I considered stitching it up, but I'm not good with that, and was afraid to trap dirt inside the wound or hurt her more.