Help my Ayam Cemani chick! It’s a major emergency

[cmobley]

All you can really do is offer food watch and see if she eats or not.

 

[Chickenslol]

Don’t know if she’s been eating, any suggestions on that

try things that she'll eat, but that have protein. I'm assuming you have eggs on hand, make her some scrambled eggs or canned tuna. Make sure she still has free choice feed, her diet should be mostly feed, but if she's really not eating things like treats and new foods can help, plus they have a lot of protein which can help her. just an idea

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

try things that she'll eat, but that have protein. I'm assuming you have eggs on hand, make her some scrambled eggs or canned tuna. Make sure she still has free choice feed, her diet should be mostly feed, but if she's really not eating things like treats and new foods can help, plus they have a lot of protein which can help her. just an idea

I’ll see if she’ll eat at all today and if not I’ll make her some eggs when I make lunch later and see if she’ll eat those.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

So my other chicks are in half of the chicken run with a fence dividing them, I’m gonna see if I can fix up the fence and make it stronger today. Do y’all think that will work?

Yesterday was a crazy day, first my Ayam Cemani ‘Wednesday’ got pecked badly then I went to go put our big chickens up in their coop last night and one was missing. Long story short we found her in some tall grass and she’s safe now. Why can’t my chickens be good for 5 seconds? Lol

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Another question, can the babies keep sleeping with the big chickens? They seem to be fine in the coop together, it’s just when they’re outside.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

This is when it first happened


This is after we cleaned it up a bit


And this is this morning.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

Your chick has a traumatic open wound. Thankfully chickens are incredibly resilient and tend to make a full recovery with skin and muscle tissue wounds. First isolate the chicken so it is not in contact with the rest of the flock. If possible, fill the water dispenser with an electrolyte mix (DIY electrolyte solution) or vitamin solution. It is imperative that the wound is kept moist. Moist wounds heal at a rate three to five times faster than dry wounds. (Imagine trying to move with a dry, hard, crackly scab on your neck!) First rinse the wound liberally with a saline solution or preferably non-medicated wound cleaner like Vetericyn. Next liberally apply an antibiotic ointment (without pain reliever which is toxic to chickens) or my personal favorite, silver sulfadizine. If the location of the wound allows it, cut to size a non stick trauma pad and gently wrap the wound, covered by the trauma pad, with vetwrap. It is not always possible to keep the wound covered, in which case keep the wound moist by regularly spraying Vetericyn and covering with ointment.

I have experienced a chick with a similar wound on its neck, and with considerable trial and error I was able to keep the wound wrapped.

For reference, is the chick trying to scratch at her wound? Or is she not bothering it? If she is scratching at it, you can use the Vetwrap to form hobbles around her feet to keep her from lifting her leg too far to scratch.

 

[ChickenWhisperer101]

Your chick has a traumatic open wound. Thankfully chickens are incredibly resilient and tend to make a full recovery with skin and muscle tissue wounds. First isolate the chicken so it is not in contact with the rest of the flock. If possible, fill the water dispenser with an electrolyte mix (DIY electrolyte solution) or vitamin solution. It is imperative that the wound is kept moist. Moist wounds heal at a rate three to five times faster than dry wounds. (Imagine trying to move with a dry, hard, crackly scab on your neck!) First rinse the wound liberally with a saline solution or preferably non-medicated wound cleaner like Vetericyn. Next liberally apply an antibiotic ointment (without pain reliever which is toxic to chickens) or my personal favorite, silver sulfadizine. If the location of the wound allows it, cut to size a non stick trauma pad and gently wrap the wound, covered by the trauma pad, with vetwrap. It is not always possible to keep the wound covered, in which case keep the wound moistened by regularly spraying Vetericyn and covering with ointment.

I have experienced a chick with a similar wound on its neck, and with considerable trial and error I was able to keep the wound wrapped.

For reference, is the chick trying to scratch at her wound? Or is she not bothering it? If she is scratching at it, you can use the Vetwrap to form hobbles around her feet to keep her from lifting her leg too far to scratch.

The wound is on her head and neck, I’m about to put more ointment (no pain killer) in a minute

 

[cmobley]

She looks good. They heal up pretty quick but it looks ugly for a little while.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

You are doing a great job.