EMERGENCY - Need help with wound!! Warning - graphic!

[User690263]

I'm glad that she's ok!

 

[Bjwkarma]

I thought I would provide an update in case anyone else ever experiences a similar issue. My vet performed surgery today to repair the wound. His opinion is that when Maeve went broody and started feather plucking, she likely created a wound tract. Feather shafts can run deep, and when pulling this feather out, she also pulled out some of the subcutaneous tissue from the fat pad near her keel bone. He doesn’t think she had a lipoma.

Surgery was successful as he was able to remove the desiccated fatty tissue and stitch things up!

Moral of the story - broody hens are intense and can cause major harm to themselves! To all the chickens out there - don’t be like Maeve!!

Im so glad she is doing better, when I looked at the photo it did look like fat, but I understand the distress! I'm so glad she's ok, and yes I've had broody hens that act so crazy- I'll look out for that!