Bloody slaughter in my coop

[Grandmajean]

Thanks SallyF. Yes, his beak is damaged and I am using a syringe to keep him hydrated. Judging from your experience, I am only prolonging the inevetable....

 

[SallyF]

Maybe not. Ours was looking better and then we went away for a couple of days. I left him with chick starter and plenty of water, but when we got back, he was too weak to stand and walk. I think when he didn't get the extra food and the insects from free-ranging, that he just got too malnourished. He was able to eat soft stuff and bugs, worms, etc, even with a damaged beak, and before we left, I even saw him mount a hen, even though he couldn''t hang on with his beak, and he slid off. But at least he was trying! He might have made it if we hadn't had to leave. Good luck, I'll be thinking about you and your poor roo.

 

[Dragonfly Ranch]

Threehorses always has the best information so I'm making sure to keep this page handy. One question I have is - other posts have said to use neosporin but not the one with "pain relief" added. Is that right? want to make sure we have the right one on hand - but truthfully we hope is runs over the expiration date and we never have to use it.

Sandee

 

[Grandmajean]

Update-I lost my boy Blanco this morning. So sad. He was a great protector of his flock, and a great pet. He would come and dance around my feet asking to be picked up. I will miss him. Thanks to all who showed interest, and to threehorses for the advice. Good to have, bad to have to use.

 

[threehorses]

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For some reason my email only notified me of the very latest post, even though I was subscribed to receive all newposts. /sigh

Yes, you don't want to use anything with pain relief or a -caine ingredient. You also want to avoid anything with the cortisone ingredients in case the bird ingests.

There's only one incident that warrants a change from this rule on the 'caines, and that's in the life or death cases of repeated prolapse where the hen keeps pushing her cloaca out. In those cases (and those alone) you can use a 'caine ointment so that she doesn't keep feeling the issue and keep pushing on her cloaca, pushing it out. (Recommended in an article by my friend Dr. Alan Stanford). Even then I'd make it to where she couldn't groom the area (which you'd want to do anyway.)

So the usual triple-antibiotics and normal neosporins are what to use. Alternately, something like corona ointment or nitrofurazone (yellow) ointment for horse wounds. But for punctures I've always found the house-hold neosporin tubes are really easy to use because you can really actually pack the wounds by sticking them in the wounds. Then discard the tube since it's been in the wound. For all other wounds, I put the ointment ON something and use that to put the ointment on the bird so as not to contaminate the ointment.

And thank you for the kind words.

 

[threehorses]

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I'm terribly sorry to hear that Blanco lost the fight. Thank you at least for trying to help him out, and I'm glad to help out any time you need anything. Just let us here at the board know.

Again please accept my condolences. /hugs

 

[steffpeck]

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I am glad that she is taking responsibility for her dogs. I have lost so many chickens from my neighbors dog, we have called the cops, everything, and they will keep them locked up for a while, but then they are back out. It makes me so angry. I hope that your little roo heals really quickly.


edited to add: Sorry, I just read that he didn't make it.

 

[threehorses]

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I am glad that she is taking responsibility for her dogs. I have lost so many chickens from my neighbors dog, we have called the cops, everything, and they will keep them locked up for a while, but then they are back out. It makes me so angry. I hope that your little roo heals really quickly.


edited to add: Sorry, I just read that he didn't make it.

I agree! If that were my neighbor, I'd take her a big plate of some home baked cookies and a thank you note for being a kind neighbor. Seriously. They're rare.

Steffpeck, we have the same type of neighbor here. His dog broke into my place (of which all 4 acres are 6'tall chainlink fence -with barbed wire on top) through a very tiny gap in the locked gate. He and another dog. They massacred half of my flock and really mauled the other half. When I went to go into the street to do something about the dogs, they turned on me. Unfortunately in the streets of Houston you cannot shoot a dog as you're not *supposed* to be walking around with a gun.

I found where the dog lives. The guys says it's not his, but it's at his house absolutely every night protecting it as if it's his house. (Read as: he comes into the middle of the public street snarling and growling with hackles up in attack stance.) There are families who walk up and down the street for exercise and he goes after them. We've all called the police and they say if the dog's on my property, I have the right to defend myself from a deadly attack or to protect my livestock. Otherwise it's up to the city animal patrol. But the guy keeps the dog up in the day - lets him out at night when the dog catchers don't work.

So what do you do? Legally? It's just disgusting really, isn't it?

 

[lauranickerson]

Great info. Thanks!

And sorry about your loss...even if it was years ago...