- Aug 15, 2011
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Came home for lunch today and found our 5 mo old Anatolian pup, who had previously been mostly trustworthy, playing sling the hen (1 year old Barred Rock) around by it's neck. I thought the hen was dead but when I touched it she jumped up and started walking around. I saw she had a gaping, approx. 2 1/2 long wound in the skin on her neck. The wound was through the skin completely, but there was really no bleeding. It was gaping open over 1/2". I wrapped her up with vet-wrap to immobilize her, as I was the only one home. I flushed it out with water with a little betadine in it (tea coloored solution). I didn't get every little piece of dirt out but most of it. I stitched up the wound with 4/0 nylon ,an improvised stitch, not exactly textbook but it closed it up. I then washed off the outside of the wound with the betadine solution, dried it and then superglued over the stitches, as I did not trust my stitch job. Then a coat of blue-kote and .5 ml of pennicillin and put her in the henhouse & had to rush back to work. I will follow up with the pennicillin daily for a week if she survives. Anything else I should have done or can do for her?