EMERGENCY!!! WARNING GRAPHIC CHICK PICS!!!!
Do any of you know how I can help this? My Delilah 7 week old Australorp pullet was beat up pretty bad and scalped. What can I do to clean it and dress it? ?? Will she live??
If she gets over the shock, eats and drinks she may make it. They will recover from stuff like that with a lot of scar tissue. I have had several that did and a couple that did not make it.
Can you glue the skin back together? Do not use peroxide but use either triple anti biotic oint ment without pain killer or vetricyn wound spray. Spray the wound twice a day(go buy some vetricyn from a feed or pet store). Some say to give them something like tylan but if other chickens did the damage I would not use it. Dog bites is a maybe on anti biotics.
If she gets over the shock, eats and drinks she may make it. They will recover from stuff like that with a lot of scar tissue. I have had several that did and a couple that did not make it.
Can you glue the skin back together? Do not use peroxide but use either triple anti biotic oint ment without pain killer or vetricyn wound spray. Spray the wound twice a day(go buy some vetricyn from a feed or pet store). Some say to give them something like tylan but if other chickens did the damage I would not use it. Dog bites is a maybe on anti biotics.
I'm sure your box will be much better than the one that delivered them to the feed store. I like taking a towel just in case, I can cover to prevent drafts or use it in the box to prevent slipping.
I realize you are all much more experienced than I am
but I got 2 chicks from a feed store this year. They had about a 45 minute drive home with me, and I had them in a decent sized box with feed and water. I know those things aren't really necessary most of the time, but in this particular situation I'm really glad I did that, because when I took the kids to pick them out, the cuckoo marans brooder was SO overheated at the store. It was a tiny box (TINY) with a heat lamp really low, all the chicks were piling on each other to get away from it, none would go near the water because it was right under the lamp, and when I put them in their box in my car the marans drank for like 5 minutes straight. Poor things, I wouldn't have been shocked if the others didn't even make it through the night in there. I wasn't even planning on getting a marans, I was going to get a dominique, but I just had to take at least one of those babies outta there. I'm not asking for perfect conditions or anything at a feed store, but none of the other brooders were like that. I also got a light brahma and they seemed much happier in theirs. It was pretty sad. Anyway my point is I'm sure your chicks will be totally fine with a short drive!
That's what I figured--I just wanted to be sure! After all, last fall, Frieda's chicks, even when teeny, would be out from under her for longer than the trip back from the feed store
The Save-a-Chick instructions say to have both plain water and treated water available. Should I have both, or should I just have the treated water, like you would for Corid? If I should have both, why? Just in case the chicks won't drink the Save-a-Chick water? Am I just overthinking hings (again)?
The girls don't know, but they will be coming home from school to a brooder being set up where the incubator is now (I'm still keeping it going 'til Saturday, just in case--there's room for both) with chicks inside! I don't have to be at work until 2 hours after they start school, so there's plenty of time. If I can get a video of their reaction, I will
Getting hot 93 degrees today my chicks are beginning to pant, what do you guys do to keep your chickens cool? They have plenty of shade and water, on deep litter.
Getting hot 93 degrees today my chicks are beginning to pant, what do you guys do to keep your chickens cool? They have plenty of shade and water, on deep litter.
Got the little brooder ready (except for filling the water and food)
The bin already had those holes melted in--I think it housed a reptile of some sort at one time--there's a thermometer strip stuck to the side I didn't photograph. There is a lid--wire fencing covered in Press'n Seal and held on by bungees. Designed to prevent hop outs--I'm moving the brooder to the getting-to-know-you pen in the coop in a few days. The chicks will only be inside long enough to make sure they have a good start.
Now to hide it in the garage until the girls go to school...
