Chicken Has Injured Tongue

[Rebecca Thomas]

Hello!
I have a year old Americauna who seems to have injured her tongue. I went out to the coop this morning and saw that she had something sticking out of her mouth. Turns out she had string wound tightly around her tongue. I managed to wrap her in a towel and carefully cut the string off, but she has a large hematoma underneath the tongue. I posed the picture below. I read on another forum to use a little mouthwash to rinse her mouth out to try to prevent infection and did so, then I gave her water. She appears to drink normally and walk around/peck around normally but doesn't really want to eat her food. Any advice??

 

[Lifeiseasy]

I’ve never had experience with this but to start you could add some Nutridrench or other vitamins to her water and give her some plain no-sugar yogurt or some egg to get her eating. It might hurt her to eat so anything soft should help.

 

[The Phantom]

@casportpony

 

[Rebecca Thomas]

I gave her same scrambled eggs. She seemed to eat that. I am going to keep an eye on her. Thanks!

 

[Lifeiseasy]

I gave her same scrambled eggs. She seemed to eat that. I am going to keep an eye on her. Thanks!

Okay good, as long as she’s eating and it doesn’t become infected she should be fine within a couple of days.