I have a 7 going on 8 week old speckled sussex who is too eager to be leaving the brooder. All of my spring chicks have gotten used to jumping up on to the walls of it on one side to greet me for breakfast and dinner, so every time I enter the room they hop up. Today, I was greeted by 9 chicks instead of 10 for their afternoon check. The poor sussex had jumped out at some point and gotten herself jammed between the wall and the brooder panels!! She was a crumbled mess and dead silent! I neglected to count them in my rush at breakfast, I realized, so who knows how long she was back there. I picked her up and she was walking funny, got her to drink a little, picked her up to move her to quarantine until she had eaten and drank and found she was bleeding!
Right behind one leg, she had several broken feathers and torn skin, presumably done in her struggles against the wall. I cannot see the wound clearly even though I removed all the broken feathers I could see. It took awhile to get the bleeding to stop. She seems exhausted, but is acting comfortable now and no longer seems heavily distressed. I guess she knows she's saved!
I've cleaned the wound with peroxide and am going to anoint it with polysporin, which as far as I could read does not have any cane/caine ingredients. We left our tube behind on vacation last week. Going to get some nutridrench and water in to her and offer scrambled eggs. From here, I think I'll rinse with saline solution and re-anoint with polysporin until cleaned, leaving it unwrapped. I plan on putting her in a small cat carrier with warm cloth bedding so she can't move around a ton and risk opening the wound repeatedly. Good plan? Terrible plan?
Right behind one leg, she had several broken feathers and torn skin, presumably done in her struggles against the wall. I cannot see the wound clearly even though I removed all the broken feathers I could see. It took awhile to get the bleeding to stop. She seems exhausted, but is acting comfortable now and no longer seems heavily distressed. I guess she knows she's saved!
I've cleaned the wound with peroxide and am going to anoint it with polysporin, which as far as I could read does not have any cane/caine ingredients. We left our tube behind on vacation last week. Going to get some nutridrench and water in to her and offer scrambled eggs. From here, I think I'll rinse with saline solution and re-anoint with polysporin until cleaned, leaving it unwrapped. I plan on putting her in a small cat carrier with warm cloth bedding so she can't move around a ton and risk opening the wound repeatedly. Good plan? Terrible plan?
