HELP! How do I get blu-kote off my hand. I look like a blueberry!

[Wfpendragon]

I got some on my hand and rubbing alcohol took most of it off.

 

[crzychcklady]

I got it all over my hands while hiding a wound on my baby rooster. Most of it comes off with Fingernail polish remover. Soaking in the remover works. I just have a little under my nails and on my cuticles now!

 

[Hivoltage]

Ha, I thought I was the only one. Good thing is that EVERY search I do about a chicken points me to this forum !!!!

 

[flwrldy]

I just got covered in bluekoat, face and arms, hands, 2 fingers are completely blue, and my cloths. A pellet got crazy on me, and pecked the paper towel I was holding the bottle with, them shook his head as it was spilling and I felt a spray hit my face. 1/2 the bottle is spilled on the coop floor.

 

[happyhens1972]

I have never used blu-kote before and thought I'd try it on my rooster, who is getting feather pecked around his neck. As I was putting the lid back on he got antsy and spilled it on my hands, arms, clothes, etc. The clothes are no biggie, but my hands (right one in particular) looks like a blueberry! I know some will stay for weeks, but there has got to be a way to reduce the nice purple intensity that I have got going on!

Any suggestions?!?

We have a safety training session on Tuesday, at which point I will be meeting the president and other higher ups in the company. I'd rather not shake hands with them looking like I just got out of the Willy Wanka Factory.

It looks like you have every suggestion under the sun so I won't add more but I did spit my tea out when I read your typo....Willy WANKA!!!! Don't be so hard on yourself!

 

[Peepsi]

Welp, I'm resurrecting this dead thread for the purpose of saying that I just used Blu-Kote on my White-Laced Wyandotte, Salt (She broke a toenail), and had to google to see how to get it off my hands. Turns out that the Nail Polish remover (Acetone) works good. If I had gone out to the garage to get the can of 100% Acetone, that would have worked even better.

 

[aart]

Best way to keep Blukote off your hands,
is to leave it in the bottle,
on the store shelf.

There are many much better options for treating wounds...plain old neosporin is the first to come to mind.

 

[Peepsi]

Best way to keep Blukote off your hands,
is to leave it in the bottle,
on the store shelf.

There are many much better options for treating wounds...plain old neosporin is the first to come to mind.

LOL! Yeah, this was my first time using it. I had no idea it would spray out of the bottle all weird and get everywhere.

I had tried a band-aid and iodine first on Salt's toe, but the other chickens went like velociraptors for the band-aid when I put her back into the coop (Salt did not make even one attempt to take the band-aid off, it's like she knew it made her toe feel better). I had to scoop Salt back up, bring her inside again, take the band-aid off, and sprayed Blue-Cote, hoping to hide the red on her toe, because the other hens had been pecking at her toe before I found her.

The Blue-Kote stopped the other hens from pecking the injured toe, so I guess that part worked, but my hands sure did not survive, and neither did two towels, LOL.

I just worry about her walking in poop with the wound uncovered...was planning on making a post asking how likely her toe was to get infected. I'll keep putting iodine on it, or neosporin as you suggested.

 

[aart]

I had no idea it would spray out of the bottle all weird and get everywhere.

BTDT. I found that carefully spraying it into a small cup or bottle cap then using a qtip to dip and apply made less of a mess.

.was planning on making a post asking how likely her toe was to get infected.

Will look for you new toe thread.

 

[chickenwhisperertx]

Got blue kote all over my hands today. Took an hour before I could wash.
Nothing worked, not even alcohol.
On the off-chance it might work, I tried the plastic heel buffer I had in my shower. Similar to a pumice stone, but not as rough.
It worked like a charm!
Still have blue under fingernails, but the rest is gone.
Wanted to come here and tell you all since I tried, to no avail, some of the suggestions posted here (except the chemical ones).