HELP! GIANT SCAB!!!! PICTURE ADDED

[DrakeMaiden]

Oh, I would also recommend monitoring her in terms of whether she has a fever. When my duck was attacked she had a fever for a while, if I remember her whole body got noticably hot. I only noticed it because I was handling her in order to feed her yogurt. The fever went away within a day and she started eating better after that.

 

[Southern28Chick]

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Sorry, I'm a little slow. What is live-culture yogurt?

 

[Wolfpacker]

You remember the ordeal I went through with Chicken Matthews and the "things-that-must-not-be-named" under her wing? You don't want that, so you're doing the right thing by taking her inside for until this heals. I wouldn't use too much hydrogen peroxide, maybe just enough to cleanse it. The problem is infection. Dixie Trail gave Chicken Matthews some Baytril, but hopefully the Neosporin will work.

I belive "live cuture" yogurt refers to plain yogurt with "active cultures" listed in the ingredients. We have a large container of Harris Teeter brand I've been giving my pullets to combat the heat.

Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Yes, just make sure the label says "live cultures added." All yogurt is made with the same beneficial bacterial cultures, but heat during commercial processing kills most of them. Only the kinds that have a "live culture" label have extra cultures added after processing.

You aren't slow, Southern28Chick, most people don't know there is a difference or that the "live culture" yogurt is better for them. You are wise to ask!

You can dilute the yogurt with water and force feed with a syringe tube or you can mix fresh greens in it, kind of like a dressing and let your birds help themselves. If they aren't used to it, they may not take to the "dressed" fresh green method, but might aquire the taste with time.

Keep us posted on wound healing!

 

[Chickemee]

Just wondering but whats is an EE hen?

 

[Southern28Chick]

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Easter Egger. She'll lay green or blue eggs.

 

[dlhunicorn]

let her eat it on her own...if you do not know how to crop feed (that is where you insert a tube down to the crop>you should only do this when it is necessary for instance when they cannot or will not eat) then do not force the feed into her beak as bird can get this in their lungs....there are two openings and birds do not have an epiglottis to close off the one leading to the airway system and it can go down the wrong tube and cause no end of trouble (this is also why you should never ever encourage a bird to "throw up" > especially when they have a static or sour crop).... most birds will be leery at first as they are with any new food (sprinkle some cooked egg yolk and a bit of her feed on top >once they get a taste of it they usually love it)... live culture yogurt is always good and I give it free choice to my birds daily... you need to FLUSH that wound with sterile saline solution (boil a quart of water with a 1/4 tsp of salt for five min and let cool) and then use a syringe with no needle or something similar and fill it with the saline water and FLUSH that wound to dislodge any loose material or such... then follow the instructions given to you by your vet...

 

[DrakeMaiden]

Great advice, dhlunicorn! I never had a problem force-feeding, so I guess I've just been lucky. Odd that my vet never cautioned me on this. But I'll certainly be more wary in the future.

Saline solution is a great suggestion. I will have to remember it.