EXTREMELY INJURED HEN: Please Help!!!

[Chickenlover2017]

@CSAchook tag people so that more people can help

 

[Chickenlover2017]

@sourland HELP!!

 

[Chickenlover2017]

@Farmer Connie HELPPP

 

[TattooedChicks]

Let's take a deep breath, more help will come when it can. With the eclipse today I'm sure lots of people are offline.

 

[sourland]

TattooedChicks has given excellent advice. Chickens have good recuperative powers from such injuries.

 

[theoldchick]

From what I see in the one photo she looks like she has an upper respiratory infection. However, since you said there are wounds-clean them with a weak iodine solution and pat dry. Put her in a warm dry place and let her settle in. Let her rest for a bit before offering her food and water. If she won't eat you'll need to purchase bird feeding formula from a store such as Petsmart. (this is my favorite in any avian emergency) and mix according to direction. Feed her the solution very slowly. Antibiotics won't help if she has a viral infection but may help with some bacterial infections. Mix her water with electrolyte solution and very slowly feed it to her. Of course the best thing for her would be a trip to the vet. Good luck and I hope she does well.

 

[chicken19]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
I'm going to go clean her wounds now and then try giving her some electrolytes. I can't express how grateful I am.
Will polysporin help with her wounds? I also have a lot of anti-bacterial creams designed for use on equines.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

ok, breathe. This is a tough situation and it can go either way. Make sure you clean her injuries really good with alcohol or peroxide and rinse with water. Only do this ONE time (after that it can slow healing). You'll want to coat her injuries then with Neosporin without pain relief. if you have blue kote, you can spray that on first. For her eye, I recommend using terramycin. It's like Neosporin for eyes. it will help.

Right now, she's most likely in shock and probably won't eat. Don't worry about that too much right now. If she's still not eating tomorrow, you can cook up a scrambled egg and blend it with some water with vitamins (save a chick vitamins/electrolytes work great) and use an eye dropper to carefully feed her.

It's not hopeless. This was my little pullet Mira that was injured in much the same way last year. She fully recovered by using the treatment above. I unfortunately lost her later to something totally unrelated. I hope you can have the same success.

 

[RiverStorm]

Right now you need to focus on getting the wounds clean with a wet cloth and then coat them in non-pain neosporin. Support her with water plus electrolytes and keep her someplace safe, quiet and warm while the shock passes. The next few days will be focused around her comfort and recovery, chickens are very resilient and come back from all sorts of injuries with proper management.

Oh you poor things! Both of you. I am so sorry this happened to you. As Chickenlover2017 said, I am sure one of the experts on the forum will be along soon. In the meantime, don't panic. This forum is full of stories of chickens fully recovering from terrible injuries. I am *not* an expert but here is my 2 cents...
-You need to clean the wounds. Do you have epsom salts for a bath or saline solution?
-Once the wounds are clean, apply topical treatments. Do you have vetericyn, blu-kote, or antibiotic ointment (regular, not the kind with pain relief)
-She needs to be kept separate from the flock, somewhere you can keep an eye on her
-She needs to eat and drink. Try tempting her with cooked egg if she won't eat her normal food. Try electrolytes in the water. Do you have Poultry Nutridrench? or even Pedialyte, or Gatorade.

Hang in there, I'm sure more people will chime in soon. *hugs*

X2 I agree with these posts. She can survive

 

[chicken19]

Ok. I don't have neopsorin. I have betadine solution that I can clean the wounds with though. I also have hibatane (for horses) and Vetranus Derma-Gel. Will any of this work?
I also have polysporin.
I will try feeding her some electrolytes and scrambled eggs. I have a dropper for the electrolytes like the one shown.