Duck attacked by fox penicillin shots

[lazy gardener]

Peroxide is frowned upon except as an initial wound cleanse. Even then, peroxide is not used in the medical community that I know of. It is very destructive to tissue which is trying to repair it'self... as is Dakin's solution.

 

[chickens really]

Peroxide is frowned upon except as an initial wound cleanse. Even then, peroxide is not used in the medical community that I know of. It is very destructive to tissue which is trying to repair it'self... as is Dakin's solution.

Great reply...........

 

[staceyj]

Dakins is sterile buffered bleach used to debride dead tissue.
It hurts like hell.
I know because for 3 weeks, twice daily, I had to pack the infection tunnels of a huge abdominal surgical site that had to be reopened on my husband after a post op infection. (GI surgery) until the necrotic tissue was gone, then hallelujah, we moved on to a wound vac for 6 weeks.

It was torturous.
Even after predosing him with massive amounts of pain meds before starting.

I would never do that to a chicken.
I’d cull them before I’d put them through such agony.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sometimes when your not feeling well something a little warm makes you feel better. That is the reason for warm water over feed.

Why cool feed is best?

 

[chickens really]

Sometimes when your not feeling well something a little warm makes you feel better. That is the reason for warm water over feed.

It's a Duck and cold fresh water is recommended if fever could be present..

 

[casportpony]

My vets taught me how to debride wounds, and all said I should create a margin around the wound, which means plucking feathers, or shaving hair if a mammal. All said *never* use peroxide. All said to flush with saline and chlorhexidine or betadine. This is what one of my reference books says:
Source: http://avianmedicine.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/16.pdf

 

[casportpony]

Sometimes when your not feeling well something a little warm makes you feel better. That is the reason for warm water over feed.

Why cool feed is best?

That's what I do. Seriously, when I make mashes I always make them with warm water.

 

[staceyj]

I’ve never been a big fan of cold chicken noodle soup...

 

[Lil Drake40]

That would be nasty. My birds love warm water over their feed they also like to drink warm water

 

[casportpony]

Who has that recipe for making saline?