Chickflick29
Chirping
- Jun 9, 2020
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Hello all!
My dear Delaware girl, Clarice, was grabbed by a Fox late yesterday afternoon. It looks like she was grabbed by the neck, I got out to the pasture fast enough to scare off the fox before any more damage was done. She wasn’t moving and I feared the worst when I found her, but as I picked her up she opened her eyes. She had trouble supporting her own head for an hour or so, but is now able to hold it up on her own.
There are two fairly deep teeth punctures on her neck - I cleaned them with mild soap and water, flushed the bite marks with hydrogen peroxide, and covered the area with Red Kote antiseptic (the only chicken-safe ‘ointment’ I could find on hand at 8pm)
I’ve moved her into a crate in the guest bedroom to keep the flies away and give her a quiet spot to recover. She is having trouble pecking at the ground level, but will readily drink the water/Sav-A-Chick electrolytes if I hold the cup up for her. She also shows slight interest in food, but she’s too weak to eat much and her tries don’t get anything in. She managed to eat one soaked mealworm treat, and seems interested in food. She’ll stand and lay down, but hasn’t really moved since I put her in there. What worries me most is that she seems to breathe with a rasp now and then, it’ll come and go at random.
We love this girl as much as any of our other pets, and we’re absolutely heartbroken that this happened.. is there anything else I can/should do to help her? I don’t want to hold onto her if it’s just too painful, but if she can come back from this we’re willing to do whatever we can to help her feel better. The pic is from this morning, her neck is mostly red from the antiseptic ointment.
My dear Delaware girl, Clarice, was grabbed by a Fox late yesterday afternoon. It looks like she was grabbed by the neck, I got out to the pasture fast enough to scare off the fox before any more damage was done. She wasn’t moving and I feared the worst when I found her, but as I picked her up she opened her eyes. She had trouble supporting her own head for an hour or so, but is now able to hold it up on her own.
There are two fairly deep teeth punctures on her neck - I cleaned them with mild soap and water, flushed the bite marks with hydrogen peroxide, and covered the area with Red Kote antiseptic (the only chicken-safe ‘ointment’ I could find on hand at 8pm)
I’ve moved her into a crate in the guest bedroom to keep the flies away and give her a quiet spot to recover. She is having trouble pecking at the ground level, but will readily drink the water/Sav-A-Chick electrolytes if I hold the cup up for her. She also shows slight interest in food, but she’s too weak to eat much and her tries don’t get anything in. She managed to eat one soaked mealworm treat, and seems interested in food. She’ll stand and lay down, but hasn’t really moved since I put her in there. What worries me most is that she seems to breathe with a rasp now and then, it’ll come and go at random.
We love this girl as much as any of our other pets, and we’re absolutely heartbroken that this happened.. is there anything else I can/should do to help her? I don’t want to hold onto her if it’s just too painful, but if she can come back from this we’re willing to do whatever we can to help her feel better. The pic is from this morning, her neck is mostly red from the antiseptic ointment.