Help!! Chicken with cut on head!! Picture included

[cstronks]

I'm glad to hear that your chicken did well and healed perfectly. We appeared to be on the same track. The cut has completely closed and scabbed over. It looks pretty ugly since the scab is blackish but the chicken is doing very well. There has been absolutely zero change in her behavior since this happened. She has laid an egg about every day and been eating and drinking. I made sure to clean daily, but now that the cut is sealed, I plan to only apply a little neosporin to the top of the head to ensure it won't get infected.

 

[chicksurreal]

I'm glad to hear that your chicken did well and healed perfectly. We appeared to be on the same track. The cut has completely closed and scabbed over. It looks pretty ugly since the scab is blackish but the chicken is doing very well. There has been absolutely zero change in her behavior since this happened. She has laid an egg about every day and been eating and drinking. I made sure to clean daily, but now that the cut is sealed, I plan to only apply a little neosporin to the top of the head to ensure it won't get infected.

That's pretty much what we did too. I'm still trying to get Elvira to hold still long enough to get a picture of her all healed up.

 

[cstronks]

Thanks. When my orpington is all healed up I'll post a picture as well. I just read in my modern farmer magazine that this product "green goo" is supposedly very, very good for animal wounds. Might have to order a tin of it in the event that another problem arises in the future. Here is a link to the website.

http://www.sierrasageorganics.com/greengooforanimals.aspx

 

[chicksurreal]

Elvira finally let me get a halfway decent picture of her scar. She's being very stubborn about it! Lol!

For some reason she only scarred on one side, the other looks totally normal. It's right behind and above her eye.

 

[chicksurreal]

Thanks. When my orpington is all healed up I'll post a picture as well. I just read in my modern farmer magazine that this product "green goo" is supposedly very, very good for animal wounds. Might have to order a tin of it in the event that another problem arises in the future. Here is a link to the website.

http://www.sierrasageorganics.com/greengooforanimals.aspx

Thanks for the link, it sounds like great stuff to have on hand!

 

[cstronks]

Yea it does! I mean, neosporin is probably just as good, but this might be more natural. Also, my birds cut has healed nicely. It is just a big white line now. Scab and such has healed over well. Hopefully it will start to grow a few feathers soon.

 

[chicksurreal]

Yea it does! I mean, neosporin is probably just as good, but this might be more natural. Also, my birds cut has healed nicely. It is just a big white line now. Scab and such has healed over well. Hopefully it will start to grow a few feathers soon.

I'm glad she's healed! There's a good chance that feathers will grow back. The only spot that didn't grow feathers back on Elvira was on the actual scar tissue on just one side, and she has a little bump behind her comb where the skin sort of wrinkled up, but it still has feathers growing on it.