Barredbuzzard34
Chirping
- Sep 20, 2019
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Hi everybody.
I have 12 barred rock pullets, probably about 8 weeks old. This morning, we had been free ranging them, and noticed one was not hanging out with the others. We found her hiding underneath a parked car, with her wing missing a lot of feathers. Upon further inspection it turned out that she had a hole in her skin underneath her wing (near her Corucoid as shown in the picture I am adding below).
I have spent a lot of time reading on this forum in the last month or so, so I already know a lot of the recommended treatments (this forum is incredibly helpful and I really appreciate how resourceful you all are. Without you guys this experience would have been really daunting for us.)
What we ended up doing was trimming down the excess feathers that were getting into her wound, spraying down the wound with Vetericyn+ for poultry, and gently applying a makeshift bandage that was covered in a layer of (off brand, painkiller free) Neosporin with antibiotics. Since the wound is under her wing and is fairly well covered, we ended up not wrapping the wound very excessively. The bandage is held in place by the Neosporin alone. (Let me know if I should be covering it more than this, but for now it seems to be holding alright.)
She did not want to eat or drink at first. We got around this by dipping her beak into a cup of water that I had added nutri-drench to, and she sipped every time her beak touched the water. For her food we made a mash out of her regular feed, leaving it fairly runny. Whenever she stopped eating we stirred the mash up and she would peck and any interesting chunks that floated by (as well as the stir-stick...)
By this time she had already perked up fairly well. This is only the first day of treatment so I will be trying to fill everyone in on how it goes in the coming days. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
I have 12 barred rock pullets, probably about 8 weeks old. This morning, we had been free ranging them, and noticed one was not hanging out with the others. We found her hiding underneath a parked car, with her wing missing a lot of feathers. Upon further inspection it turned out that she had a hole in her skin underneath her wing (near her Corucoid as shown in the picture I am adding below).
I have spent a lot of time reading on this forum in the last month or so, so I already know a lot of the recommended treatments (this forum is incredibly helpful and I really appreciate how resourceful you all are. Without you guys this experience would have been really daunting for us.)
What we ended up doing was trimming down the excess feathers that were getting into her wound, spraying down the wound with Vetericyn+ for poultry, and gently applying a makeshift bandage that was covered in a layer of (off brand, painkiller free) Neosporin with antibiotics. Since the wound is under her wing and is fairly well covered, we ended up not wrapping the wound very excessively. The bandage is held in place by the Neosporin alone. (Let me know if I should be covering it more than this, but for now it seems to be holding alright.)
She did not want to eat or drink at first. We got around this by dipping her beak into a cup of water that I had added nutri-drench to, and she sipped every time her beak touched the water. For her food we made a mash out of her regular feed, leaving it fairly runny. Whenever she stopped eating we stirred the mash up and she would peck and any interesting chunks that floated by (as well as the stir-stick...)
By this time she had already perked up fairly well. This is only the first day of treatment so I will be trying to fill everyone in on how it goes in the coming days. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
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