Head injury on Black Australorp hen, need urgent help please

[Little Coop on Salt Creek]

Silvadene is very good to use. We used it on burn patients in the hospitals where I have worked. It will help prevent infection. I hope you get a chance to look at the other threads about scalping. If you can keep her inside the coop some in a dog crate where she can be around the other chickens once a day, where they can stay familiar with her, it may make it easier to reintroduce her. It also may make her happier as well. It is unfortunate that these wounds take a long time to heal. Keep us updated on her progress.

@Eggcessive how many times a day should we be using the Silver Sulfadiazine Cream and for how many days?

It has been a heck of a day.. we started out finding one of our Lavender Ameraucana chicks with wry neck .. then not an hour later, this sweet girl!

 

[Eggcessive]

The silvadene is usually used on second and third degrees burns. The area should be cleaned off with saline, and the cream should be applied once or twice a day. You can always switch to an antibiotic ointment at any time. Here is a link from
the manufacturer about how to use it:
https://www.pfizermedicalinformation.com/en-us/silvadene-cream/dosage-admin

Do you need any help with the wry neck treatment? Vitamin E 400 IU daily, along with 1/4 tablet of B complex crushed onto food is good for wry neck. Add a few bits of cooked egg for selenium daily.

 

[Little Coop on Salt Creek]

I have Sodium Sel + E that I have been giving plus poly vi sol vitamins. So far she is eating and drinking on her own, but it is so sad to watch when she gets all twisty. I have decided to leave her in with her flock mates since she isn't contagious and she has very good energy.

I am wondering what to do from here though, I am breeding EE's so these babies were supposed to be in that mix. I was hoping to get an Ameraucana Roo out of it, but now I'm pretty sure I wouldn't want to use this baby in my plan. So frustrating!

 

[Little Coop on Salt Creek]

I know this is late, but I wanted to update on our girl's progress.

This was a picture taken the very next day (Tuesday) after the initial treatment. We sprayed with Veterycin and put more cream on twice this day.

This was taken 2 days (Wednesday) after the injury occurred. We cleaned her twice this day with Veterycin and the burn cream.

By day 4 we were just applying the burn cream once a day. We did that on day 5 as well. On day 6 and 7 we jumped to applying only Neosporin once a day.

On day 7, we had someone coming to pick up our unwanted roos. They asked if we were going to be selling any of our hens that go broody. This girl, Jade, happened to be out free-ranging at this time and we said that she has been a great broody mama for us and was going to be sold in early summer but then she had this unfortunate accident. We said we figured because of it, she would be living out her days with us. They said that they loved her disposition and wanted her in their flock and offered us a generous amount for her. So, Jade went to go live at a different farm that day and made room in our flock a little earlier than anticipated!

 

[micstrachan]

I know this is late, but I wanted to update on our girl's progress.

View attachment 1749844 This was a picture taken the very next day (Tuesday) after the initial treatment. We sprayed with Veterycin and put more cream on twice this day.

View attachment 1749861 This was taken 2 days (Wednesday) after the injury occurred. We cleaned her twice this day with Veterycin and the burn cream.

By day 4 we were just applying the burn cream once a day. We did that on day 5 as well. On day 6 and 7 we jumped to applying only Neosporin once a day.

On day 7, we had someone coming to pick up our unwanted roos. They asked if we were going to be selling any of our hens that go broody. This girl, Jade, happened to be out free-ranging at this time and we said that she has been a great broody mama for us and was going to be sold in early summer but then she had this unfortunate accident. We said we figured because of it, she would be living out her days with us. They said that they loved her disposition and wanted her in their flock and offered us a generous amount for her. So, Jade went to go live at a different farm that day and made room in our flock a little earlier than anticipated!

Thanks for the update! Glad she seemed to be improving.

 

[Little Coop on Salt Creek]

An update on our baby with wry neck... after much reading, we ended up giving her a concoction of baby bird food mixed with tumeric, vitamin b complex, poly-vi sol liquid vitamins, a little bit of fish oil, and the selenium + vitamin e that I mentioned above. All of that was mixed together and given via a syringe since she wasn't able to feed herself. We did it for 5 days, 3 times a day. By day 4, her neck was straightening out and she was acting like herself again. We then backed it down to 2 times a day and did it for 3 days. After that, she really didn't care for her syringe time, she was more interested in just being a chick! But we backed her off to 1 time a day and were planning to do it for 3 more days. She had 1 more day to go, went to bed acting fine and in the morning of that last day, she was looking really tired and wobbly. Within a few hours, she had passed away tucked under the mother hen heating pad. It was so sad, as we thought she had been completely healed. We think maybe that our efforts were just prolonging her little life and making her feel a bunch better, but whatever the true cause of the wry neck was, it was going to be the thing that took her life no matter our efforts.