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granny hatchet said:
Not 100% sure why I am following this as I am half sick to my stomach. LOL I did successfully treat a hen not too long ago that had this yellow. It took a while week and half maybe. Anyway, point is I may of had better drugs. Us old folk usually do. I gave prednisone 5mg once daily did all the soaks I sprayed aloe on the wound which did not keep it moist so I switched to butt cream. I was told to debrie it and in the soak I took a washcloth and tried. I felt this yellow lift at a corner and it actually peeled off her bum . It felt like a very thick rubber. After that came off she healed very quickly . Oh and the tums . One a day.
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Thank you so much! I will try this when I soak her today.
 
azygous said:
As @casportpony has pointed out, the yellow tissue is infection, not skin. Debriding of infectious and necrotic tissue is essential to the treatment of this hen. Not to do it is like a gangrene victim being given just aspirin and an oral antibiotic when they go to the ER when surgery is needed to prevent dying from the infection.
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Gotcha I will get that stuff off when I soak her!
 
casportpony said:
If she were mine I would start by picking this off and see what it looks like underneath.
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I did pick off a hunk of that yesterday when I was soaking her it was to the right, right underneath the red circle you added, underneath was the red fleshy part that you can see in the picture. It was odd, it came off just like a big scab but when I looked inside the scab it had blood in it, like it was just a hunk of black dried up flesh or skin. Sorry for the graphic-ness.
 
I need to correct myself. This is from my thread.

I havent done anything to her butt yet today. I THINK it is a little bit smaller. As far as meds Water got electo/vitamins and real honey. Food consisted of a scrambled egg with a tums, prednisone 10 mg. and liquid amoxicillin a 1/4 tsp. No egg today day 4 .
 
azygous said:
@granny hatchet, were the Tums for you or the patient? :lau

I wonder if we've lost the OP. Anyway, here's a very good run-down on how to do debridement on animals. https://www.merckvetmanual.com/emer...are/wound-management/initial-wound-management

It has some technical language, but you can see the objective is to remove as much of the sick tissue as possible and it gives tips using sugar and honey as a dressing to encourage this process.
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Me LOL For real though they make a huge difference. Just dont ask me to explain. I never thought in a million years I would ever have my hand anywhere near a chickens butt yet there I was rocking it !
 
azygous said:
@granny hatchet, were the Tums for you or the patient? :lau

I wonder if we've lost the OP. Anyway, here's a very good run-down on how to do debridement on animals. https://www.merckvetmanual.com/emer...are/wound-management/initial-wound-management

It has some technical language, but you can see the objective is to remove as much of the sick tissue as possible and it gives tips using sugar and honey as a dressing to encourage this process.
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Okay so I read it and It says to apply the sugar and then put a dressing on it, but with this being the hens vent how should I go about putting a dressing on it? Or should I put a dressing on at all? Sorry everyone for all the questions! I just turned 17 and I'm going to college to become a vet so I'm trying to learn all I can and get it right.
 

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