- Mar 27, 2012
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I thought I'd post this because it worked so well.
I have a neighbor who is a nurse. When I get an injury where I bleed, he always says, "Use some gorilla glue on it." I never have, scared me to do it. But he claims that is something that they use in the hospital all the time (probably not that name brand).
I put my baby, about 10 week old chicks outside, and they have been doing really well. It had been about a month, and I noticed I had a problem.
I had a chick that was sitting alone, and every time a chick would walk by her, that chick would notice the blood in front of her tail, and they would pick at her. A day went by where they usually scab over and get better, and she wasn't avoiding them but getting worse. The area was not quite large, and bright red blood stood out on it. In fact, she was acting depressed and like she wasn't long for this world. I coated it with BluKote. The next day, all bloody again. I was really frustrated.
I thought and thought about what I could use. Nothing came to mind, and I coated it with BluKote again. But they took that off right away, and within hours, she was all bloody again.
She was really depressed, so I took her out of the pen and put her in a box in the garage. She escaped the box, and in the morning, she was hiding in the garage. My garage...well, let's say I couldn't find her very quickly. So I decided that wasn't going to work, and after I found her later in the day, I put her in a box and tried to think what to do.
It dawned on me that the neighbor, a nurse, kept saying "use Gorilla glue" for cuts. So I decided to try it. I held her and put the glue on the bloody spot which was now about the size of a 50c piece. She moved her wing, and it went in the glue and the wing started to stick to her back! I panicked thinking that the glue was going to glue her wing to her back. I quickly moved it, and held her with her wings out for about five minutes until the glue was mostly dry to the touch. (It seemed to go on quite thick, and the area was large, and I had to cover it so that there was no blood exposed, so I had to put quite a bit on it. I left her in the box for another couple of hours to make sure it was completely dry (worried they'd eat it and die), and then I put her back with the other chicks.
Strange thing is that they looked at her bloody area, and they sort of made a light peck or two, but they didn't either like the taste of the glue or they couldn't get the taste of blood. They didn't bother her any more. She went back to eating right away (she had been moping and not eating). The next day, the area under the glue was brown as if it had scabbed over.
Today she is a normal chick in the normal group. She still doesn't have feathers fully covering her there, but she has skin and not blood. She is eating and acting normally. None of my chickens got sick, nobody died from eating glue, and the process was great.
This morning I noticed she has a light pink area there now, and I am not sure if they are pecking at her again. But if she gets bloody, she will get glued again, and this time, I won't wait until she has a large, bloody area before I use the glue again.
I will use this again for sure on any chicks that are injured and being pecked. In fact, I will use it for chickens that have injuries. It worked great!
I have a neighbor who is a nurse. When I get an injury where I bleed, he always says, "Use some gorilla glue on it." I never have, scared me to do it. But he claims that is something that they use in the hospital all the time (probably not that name brand).
I put my baby, about 10 week old chicks outside, and they have been doing really well. It had been about a month, and I noticed I had a problem.
I had a chick that was sitting alone, and every time a chick would walk by her, that chick would notice the blood in front of her tail, and they would pick at her. A day went by where they usually scab over and get better, and she wasn't avoiding them but getting worse. The area was not quite large, and bright red blood stood out on it. In fact, she was acting depressed and like she wasn't long for this world. I coated it with BluKote. The next day, all bloody again. I was really frustrated.
I thought and thought about what I could use. Nothing came to mind, and I coated it with BluKote again. But they took that off right away, and within hours, she was all bloody again.
She was really depressed, so I took her out of the pen and put her in a box in the garage. She escaped the box, and in the morning, she was hiding in the garage. My garage...well, let's say I couldn't find her very quickly. So I decided that wasn't going to work, and after I found her later in the day, I put her in a box and tried to think what to do.
It dawned on me that the neighbor, a nurse, kept saying "use Gorilla glue" for cuts. So I decided to try it. I held her and put the glue on the bloody spot which was now about the size of a 50c piece. She moved her wing, and it went in the glue and the wing started to stick to her back! I panicked thinking that the glue was going to glue her wing to her back. I quickly moved it, and held her with her wings out for about five minutes until the glue was mostly dry to the touch. (It seemed to go on quite thick, and the area was large, and I had to cover it so that there was no blood exposed, so I had to put quite a bit on it. I left her in the box for another couple of hours to make sure it was completely dry (worried they'd eat it and die), and then I put her back with the other chicks.
Strange thing is that they looked at her bloody area, and they sort of made a light peck or two, but they didn't either like the taste of the glue or they couldn't get the taste of blood. They didn't bother her any more. She went back to eating right away (she had been moping and not eating). The next day, the area under the glue was brown as if it had scabbed over.
Today she is a normal chick in the normal group. She still doesn't have feathers fully covering her there, but she has skin and not blood. She is eating and acting normally. None of my chickens got sick, nobody died from eating glue, and the process was great.
This morning I noticed she has a light pink area there now, and I am not sure if they are pecking at her again. But if she gets bloody, she will get glued again, and this time, I won't wait until she has a large, bloody area before I use the glue again.
I will use this again for sure on any chicks that are injured and being pecked. In fact, I will use it for chickens that have injuries. It worked great!
