2 Level teaspoons table salt, plain not iodized
4 Cups tap water
Sterile glass jar and lid
Clean pan and lid
1-Wash your hands with soap and warm water, rinse and dry.
2-Combine salt and water in the pan.
3-Cover the pan and heat until boiling.
4-Boil for 15 minutes. Keep the lid on the pan, do not uncover.
5-Remove from heat, and keep covered.
6-Cool to room temperature, and keep covered.
7-Uncover and pour into the sterile jar, and seal jar tightly with lid.
8-Place the label on the jar. Use the pen to write the date on the label.
9-Write the time and date on the label when you remove the lid from the jar.
10-Throw the saline away 48 hours after it is opened, or throw an unused, unopened jar of saline away 30 days after it was made.
We make it with 8 grams NaCl per liter of deionized water.
We use a lab scale but I think that's about a slightly heaping tsp per liter.
It would have to be sterilized though.
After you do the saline irrigation..You might try a triple antibiotic ointment..(like "neosporin")
It will keep the scab flexible and help keep infection out
Edited to add...Without painkiller..never use anything that ends in "caine" on a chicken from what I've read