EMERGENCY...Chick has wing injury, almost completely ripped off!

[henryherd4]

Today we found one of our six chicks injured and another missing. There doesn't seem to be any sign of trauma in the coop or run just one completely missing and anothers wing is hanging unable to be used. What should we do? I think the muscle would be her biscep or deltoid...
Please Help!


Questions:

1)What type of bird , age and weight.
Silver lace Wyandotte, just got full mature feathers so 6ish weeks

2) What is the behavior, exactly.
Very lethargic, picking at wound

3) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
Left wing completely detached from body at main meat

4) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
? We are missing one of the other chicks

5) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
Not sure, watching now!

6) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? Etc.
All white

7) What has been the treatment you have administered so far? Removing from the coop and watching for behavior.

8 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet? Hoping to treat ourselves can’t spend $ on vet.

9) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.

10) Describe the housing/bedding in use.

 

[DuckLady]

Is the wing attached by anything more than a piece of skin? Any blood vessels or anything?

Wash the area with mild soap and warm water and see what you can see about how the wing is attached. If it is just by a piece of skin, I would snip it off, but be careful of blood vessels.

Smear with neosporin and bandage. You can use vet wrap to attach the bandage aoround the body just enough to keep the bandage on, but not too tight to prevent breathing.

 

[henryherd4]

Thank You!
We did numb the area w/ lidocane then remove the wing with a clean sharp razor blade. Planning to keep the wound bandaged, covered w/ neosporine pain relief and the chick seperated from the others until it heals a while.
If you have any other suggestions please let me know as we are very new at loving chickens and want to do whatever we need to.
Thank You Again...

 

[Quillgirl]

Aren't the pain relief ointments (have -cain in the name) toxic to birds? Do a search on this forum. Be careful about using the pain relief stuff.

 

[GreenGoddess]

Yes they are.. If I learned anything, it's that any "cain" type meds are toxic and that chickens have a very high pain tolerance so don't need any "pain relief"... Please clean the area and put neosporin WITHOUT pain reliever in it.. Also, you may want to get some poly vy sol (infant vitamins) NO IRON and give her some of that to boost her immune system... I'm sure others will chime in with any other advice....

Goddess

 

[henryherd4]

what do you mean by toxic... She has already had it on for about 30min

 

[DuckLady]

You should use neosporin without the pain relief. If you have some, just dab off what you put on and replace with the non pain relief kind.