chicken draining punctured crop plzz help

[ejtrout31]

Here is some pictures

 

[staceyj]

Would you check and see if there is a corresponding wound on his underside?

 

[staceyj]

Usually with a dog bite if there’s one hole that means there might be a second one.
See pic.

 

[staceyj]

I think you’d have more luck seeing what you’re doing if you trimmed away some feathers away from the wound with scissors.

Feathers harbor a ton of germs.

 

[ejtrout31]

Will any of the feathers near the wound be blood feathers

 

[Eggcessive]

It looks like he has a wound on his crop area and a corresponding wound on his right back. It can be helpful to trim feathers from the wounds, and spray the wounds twice a day with Vetericyn. I would make sure those wounds are clean. How deep are they? His frostbitten feet don’t look as bad as I thought they would. Is he walking around much? I have never had a wounded crop, but it would be good to try and close it with superglue or stitches. Otherwise, he may not get enough to eat. Others have suggested feeding cooked egg and wet feed. No corn, scratch or whole grains.

 

[ejtrout31]

I trimmed feathers his only wound is the crop puncture

 

[azygous]

The wound looks awfully ragged to try to seal with super glue. What I have to recommend is pretty complicated, but we'll see how it goes over.

The crop is double-skinned, meaning it has two separate layers of skin. You need to maneuver the exterior wound and look at what the inside wound looks like. Measure how big if it's not the same size as the exterior.

I would debride and trim away the ragged, necrotic edges of the exterior wound and the feathers an inch away from the wound. Instead of trying to super glue it, I would place a compress bandage on the wound after spraying Vetericyn and the ointment smoothed on. Then wrap with Vetrap around the wound and on his back and under his wings. It's important to wrap loosely enough so the crop isn't restricted and compressed. But you want the stretch bandage to be snug enough it'll stay on.

It concerns me that the wound has such jagged edges and I believe the wound would knit together better with the wound cleaned up and streamlined.

I've tried suturing a chicken before, but the skin is so thin, the stitches tore loose. It doesn't appear the wound is closing on its own. This is why I'd like a report on the inner skin layer to see if it's closed.

 

[ejtrout31]

I don’t want to try and look to much at it so it doesn’t tear anymore. It’s not draining anymore though.

 

[staceyj]

I don’t want to try and look to much at it so it doesn’t tear anymore. It’s not draining anymore though.

Ok. That’s understandable.
If my husband had to do it he literally wouldn’t be able to.
He faints at the sight of blood. He tries... but it’s just not possible for him.

When our kids were growing up I’d have to just keep yelling
“Don’t look. SERIOUSLY! DO NOT LOOK!”
Because if he did I’d have to get him off the floor and onto the couch before I left for the ER with the bleeding kid.

Keep up with just small amounts of soft , easy to digest foods and keep it clean.
Nothing to eat during normal roosting times.

Do you have any poultry vitamins at your house?
If no, then tell me what kinds of “ people vitamins” you might have.