Help! Chicken have hard large lump in her infected wing.

[Luckybaby]

Her wings color are blue green in color, about 4 days ago. It feels weird, like rubbery, and there might be bubbles or liquid inside, and it(bacteria that contributes to the blue green color) seems to spread fast. Luckily, I gave her amoxicillin 125mg/kg dosage twice a day( every 12 hours) since about 4 days ago. The blue green color spread beyond her wings on the day I gave her amoxicillin, but it became reddish pink in color, about 36 hours after the first dosage. Most of her left wing, have blue green color, before I treated her, but today, most of it looks closer to it's normal color. However, I think a fibrous wall grew on her left wing. It was a lot smaller, before I gave her amoxicillin, but since 2 days ago, the hard looking lump fully covers about half of my chicken's wing. It is not growing larger though. I wouldn't try to make a surgery in there, since it covers such a large area, I don't know exactly, where the necrotic tissue or foreign object is located, and I might damage the main artery on her left wing. Should I just leave it alone, since I think the amoxicillin is working? I tried to cut into the scab about 4 days ago, and I saw some black stuff( maybe dying tissue), and I didn't take it out, since I think more will form, and other large area in her left wing, but far away from the scab that I cut have it too, since I saw one came out after pricking another scab that is far away from the ones I cut. I also saw white clear liquid came out of it, and some clear yellow liquid( maybe it is not a pus). Fibrous wall usually forms around the area of infection, but the fibrous wall( if she has one), forms first way beyond the scab that I cut, and the scab is not located close to the middle of the fibrous wall. There might be dead tissue or foreign body, beyond the scab. She is still eating a lot and drinking a lot of water, but 2-4 days ago, she seems to drink a little amount of water.

How long should I give her amoxicillin? I am planning to give her 6 more doses, to make the total duration 7.5 days.

 

[chooks4life]

That sounds very bad. Are you able to get her to a vet?

If the Amoxicillin is yielding results I guess you should keep up with it, but that still sounds like a vet case to me.

I would offer her hardboiled egg with raw garlic (two cloves a day roughly) minced into it or offered separately, maybe in yoghurt to assist her to continue to digest her food while the Amoxicillin is killing both beneficial and pathogenic bacteria etc; the vitamins, minerals, sulfur and protein in the egg can help support her healing during this time. Many chickens which are off their food will continue to eat hardboiled or scrambled egg.

The garlic contains more sulfur which is vital to control of pathogenic bacteria as well as tissue regeneration, and it also contains over three dozen natural antibiotics which can kill bacteria artificial antibiotics can't, and can assist artificial antibiotics to be more effective too.

A vitamin C supplement can help too, even if it's just ascorbic acid mixed into her food or provided in dark leafy greens or veggies/fruit, because the body creates hydrogen peroxide to attack pathogens and that's what vitamin C converts to in the body.

Best wishes.

 

[chooks4life]

I will just add, right now I'm experimenting with colloidal silver versus fowl pox, it's thus far very effective, so if you feel inclined, it may be worth a try. I was expecting little to no results to be honest.

Best wishes.

 

[chooks4life]

Just found out what it might be... Chicken Infectious Anemia, also known as Blue Wing Disease.
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I've never dealt with that before so can't offer any advice, but it sounds pretty bad.

Good luck.

 

[Luckybaby]

I think, it is gangrenous dermatitis. On 156 on the link, it is caused by many factors, other than virus that causes immune deficiency. I read, that they die less than 24 hours after exposure, but I also read on the other site, that if it is caused by staph bacteria rather than clostridia bacteria or a combination of both, then they survived longer following exposure. The scratch( probably from chicken claw due to fighting) is about 2.5 inches long, and maybe deep. I incised it a little bit deep 7.5 days ago, and the skin is almost completely healed today, since some scab fell few days ago, and the other scab is detaching from the skin yesterday. Before I incise it, the scab looks like 2-3 days old.



http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/186/gangrenous-dermatitis/

My chickens, especially the roosters fights a lot, and they probably had scratches on their wings since several months ago. I checked it since few days ago, and some have minor scratches on their wing, but none of them have any infection on their wings. Also, they are no longer roaming the backyard since 8 1/2 months ago, since they will get eyeworms, and capillary worms if I let them out. I already treated them with valbazen(drench) and ivermectin(injectable) but I am not sure, if any of those have 100% efficacy against eyeworm. I think I didn't allow her( the chicken with bad wound infection) to free range since 6 - 6/12 months ago. She is about 8 1/2 months old.

 

[chooks4life]

Sounds like you're having a rough time with them. Never rains but pours, aye?

Thanks for the updates, this is educational.

I have treated gangrene once, in a fox bite, using pine tar (Stockholm tar) and personally I would think it would work on this too, it's powerfully antiseptic, antibacterial etc and draws foreign bodies and debris out of wounds while working as an analgesic, it can knock pain out in a matter of milliseconds.

Tends to heal wounds with no scarring no matter how terrible they were. I've used it on myself as well, and on a variety of issues on birds, dogs, sheep, etc... Very potent stuff, if you get the pure and undiluted type, I can't vouch for anything else.

Best wishes.