- Aug 21, 2013
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Hi all,
I'm newly joined to BYC but have been using it as a search tool since we got our girls a couple of years ago..so thank you for all the second hand advice I've gotten, it's great!
Our girls have been totally free range on our farm and getting layer mix, food scraps and anything else they could scrounge off us, they are very personable!
Last Friday night my friend came over with her little terrier dog and he got away from her, he quickly dispatched of one of my girls, I managed to prise the other one out of his mouth (he had her by the flank).
She was shaking and very stressed, so I put her in the coop box for the night to see what she wanted to do (live or die).
The next morning she was still alive, and would eat and drink a little...
She is bald across the back towards her tail (still has feathers on her shoulders) and has five deep puncture wounds that I can see.
The next few days I washed her with salt water, and smeared betadine on the wounds, and today I started medicinal honey.
She is getting vitamin c added to water and food, as well as oregano... I don't think she's eating enough and she isn't too interested in layer mash or rolled oats, but seems keen enough for some things (white bread, yoghurt, boiled egg, ham fat etc)...
What's worrying me most of all is that at 6 days now she's still not taking any significant weight onto one of her legs, she hops, sort of, in the smaller cage I have her in now to get to food and water but spends most of her time lying down, preening, head tucked under wing....she feels a little warm, but not feverish..
Is it pointless to keep her going if she's not walking on that leg yet??
If there's a chance she'll recover, what else can I be doing?
Thanks in advance,
Rio
I'm newly joined to BYC but have been using it as a search tool since we got our girls a couple of years ago..so thank you for all the second hand advice I've gotten, it's great!
Our girls have been totally free range on our farm and getting layer mix, food scraps and anything else they could scrounge off us, they are very personable!
Last Friday night my friend came over with her little terrier dog and he got away from her, he quickly dispatched of one of my girls, I managed to prise the other one out of his mouth (he had her by the flank).
She was shaking and very stressed, so I put her in the coop box for the night to see what she wanted to do (live or die).
The next morning she was still alive, and would eat and drink a little...
She is bald across the back towards her tail (still has feathers on her shoulders) and has five deep puncture wounds that I can see.
The next few days I washed her with salt water, and smeared betadine on the wounds, and today I started medicinal honey.
She is getting vitamin c added to water and food, as well as oregano... I don't think she's eating enough and she isn't too interested in layer mash or rolled oats, but seems keen enough for some things (white bread, yoghurt, boiled egg, ham fat etc)...
What's worrying me most of all is that at 6 days now she's still not taking any significant weight onto one of her legs, she hops, sort of, in the smaller cage I have her in now to get to food and water but spends most of her time lying down, preening, head tucked under wing....she feels a little warm, but not feverish..
Is it pointless to keep her going if she's not walking on that leg yet??
If there's a chance she'll recover, what else can I be doing?
Thanks in advance,
Rio