Chicken neck attack!! Help!

[casportpony]

Dura-penicillin which is listed as long lasting antibiotic or regular penicillin which is listed as short term? Both liquid.

The one on the left.

 

[casportpony]

Also... 1/2 in or 3/4 in 20g needles?

The penicillin---Sorry---I don't know. A guess would be to get the regular pcn---the one for cattle might be too concentrated? Guessing here.
Either needle length should be okay I would think---you wouldn't be going in to the hub, as the more experienced chicken people here discussed earlier.
@casportpony , @Eggcessive , can you chime in about the pcn?
Somebody?

I use nothing but 1", so that's what I recommend.

 

[Anabariful]

I ended up getting the one on the left and I got 20g 1/2 for needles. Will update after the injection!

 

[Anabariful]

@Anabariful Wishing a full and speedy recovery to your sweet girl. I hope she's still hanging in there. Thank you so much for documenting everything. Also big thanks to all of the community for their input and knowledge, this has been a really informative post.

Thank you!! <3

 

[Lazy Farmer]

Wonderful site

All you guys are awesome!!! I love this site and proud to be a member

 

[Anabariful]

From here (wish I could see it up close), it doesn't look like healthy tissue. There looks like some debris in the area too.
I would take a syringe with some saline and flush the cruddy stuff out and look again. Hard to guess how far the non-healthy tissue goes. At this point it is too late to try to join the wound edges and I would try to keep that area moist with a saline dressing. It is perhaps better that this area is open---it looks ischemic and may indicate dead or dying tissue that needs to be debrided if possible. If you can possibly trim the very dark areas away, down to clean pinker tissue, it would be a good thing to do, but only if you can actually lift the deadened areas away and are sure that you are not cutting into something vital.
Closing the wound without removing dead tissue would be worse than leaving it open. Wounds can heal very well by secondary intention (basically healing from the inside to the outside) but they require moisture and coverage. I would do Neosporin on the edges but not inside the wound itself---cleaning and the antibiotic injections should be enough to take care of the deeper wound and since the Neosporin has an oil base I wouldn't use it inside the wound itself.
Again---you are handling this so well!!!!

Okay, so, I should throughly clean the area and assess if the darker area can be lifted and possibly cut away to pink(er?) tissue?

Also, should I be covering the wound all day, every day for X amount of days? Cover the whole wound or just the dark area?

I have been letting it air out and in all honestly, it looks excellent in color and appearance except for the one dark spot. The other areas look nice and peach colored like regular chicken skin minus the blue kote staining. :/

 

[Eggcessive]

Yes, benzathine, thanks. My poor eyes couldn't read the label. It is given less often, I'm thinking every 3 days. Most use the daily procaine pen G given once a day.

 

[NancyNurseCxMama]

Yes, benzathine, thanks. My poor eyes couldn't read the label. It is given less often, I'm thinking every 3 days. Most use the daily procaine pen G given once a day.

I wouldn't be able to read it either without my Mr. Magoo Super Glasses.

 

[casportpony]

Yes, benzathine, thanks. My poor eyes couldn't read the label. It is given less often, I'm thinking every 3 days. Most use the daily procaine pen G given once a day.

I wouldn't be able to read it either without my Mr. Magoo Super Glasses.

I have to "ctrl +" until the font is huge, lol.

 

[Kre8it]

I feel so awful!! These pictures were taken before I cleaned her up. I'm prepared to put her down if need to. Her injury looks downright awful.

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I had some Silkies a long time ago that a dog got to and ate the top of the back, exposing organs inside. Just as bad as you have here. I bandaged it up with gauze which i had put neosporin on the gauze then used the sticky wrap for pets to wrap it to keep it in place. I keep it clean, etc...and I was amazed that the bird ended up completely fine!