Help!!!!! Buff Orpington fractured leg

[Ginmary]

Just leaving hospital with her now. She’s ok will update later when we get home eat and get settled

 

[casportpony]

How's she doing?

 

[Ginmary]

Buffy is doing pretty well considering. She's basically just laying in the box. Tonight we will try to get her into a bigger one. She hasn't been pooping a lot, nothing overnight at least until we left at 9am. I'm thinking I will find a big broody poop when we get home. Last night she expelled a poop that was mostly clear liquid. I guess the antibiotic is probably effecting it.

Here's her in her box:

Here's her meds and the 2 screws:

I put a quarter down for comparison. I have to give her an injection 2x per day of calcium which acts as chelation to remove the zinc from her body.
Then I have to give her 1/2 tablet of the anti-inflammatory 2x per day. Finally the amoxicillin tablet 2x per day. Look at the size of that freakin tablet. Last night I shoved the whole thing down her throat. This morning I mashed it in some banana. It was hard to get her to get it all. The 1/2 tab I was able to squeeze into a piece of bread.
I mentioned to her that if she could get those screws down she could at least try to eat the tabs. She didn't get the logic.....

 

[Kiki]

Buffy is doing pretty well considering. She's basically just laying in the box. Tonight we will try to get her into a bigger one. She hasn't been pooping a lot, nothing overnight at least until we left at 9am. I'm thinking I will find a big broody poop when we get home. Last night she expelled a poop that was mostly clear liquid. I guess the antibiotic is probably effecting it.

Here's her in her box:

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Here's her meds and the 2 screws:

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I put a quarter down for comparison. I have to give her an injection 2x per day of calcium which acts as chelation to remove the zinc from her body.
Then I have to give her 1/2 tablet of the anti-inflammatory 2x per day. Finally the amoxicillin tablet 2x per day. Look at the size of that freakin tablet. Last night I shoved the whole thing down her throat. This morning I mashed it in some banana. It was hard to get her to get it all. The 1/2 tab I was able to squeeze into a piece of bread.
I mentioned to her that if she could get those screws down she could at least try to eat the tabs. She didn't get the logic.....

Chickens can swallow mice whole.
Don't worry about the pill being too big...it's not.

 

[Kiki]

Are you left handed?

 

[Kiki]

One more question... How many milligrams is the amoxicillin?

 

[Ginmary]

We have to bring her back in a week to recheck, possibly re-cast. and then again a week later. They will take another X-ray to make sure everything is setting well. They said the X-ray will be simpler and cheaper.... If you knew how much this has cost me so far you'd be sending the guys with the straight jacket over....

I think I now have the world's most expensive chicken. and we can't even eat her...

I'll have to throw out all her eggs for quite a while until all the meds are out of her system.

 

[Ginmary]

I don't remember how many mgs the amoxicillin is. I'll check when I get home tonight. I'm right handed. It was tough to try to hold her still and get her beak open. She tries to struggle and I'm afraid she'll hurt the leg

 

[Folly's place]

Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do, and it's great for her that you were able to have all this done.
Zinc toxicity is no joke!
Plan on getting or renting one of those big magnets on wheels, and go over your chicken area often, when you can. She will be happy to do this again...
All the best,
Mary

 

[Kiki]

I don't remember how many mgs the amoxicillin is. I'll check when I get home tonight. I'm right handed. It was tough to try to hold her still and get her beak open. She tries to struggle and I'm afraid she'll hurt the leg

I was just wondering which hand because of your pretty handwriting.