HELP! Please help ASAP!!!

[Everose]

If you wrap the wound correctly, (I have no idea how to do this) it can be beneficial. I've heard an expert explain the risk factor over the benefits before, but can't remember who it was or where it was posted. The Neosporin will stay on as it will stick to the wound and the feathers. I can't explain how to properly wrap it vs. improperly, but if it were me, I would rather not wrap it then risk wrapping in correctly. Most members suggest against wrapping as I've found.

I myself prefer to leave them open and airy, but it does seem like gaping wounds do better in a wrap, if properly sanitized and medicated it seems to me like wrapping would be fine.

I once saw a friends chicken get torn up really bad by a predator, she had exposed bones and body cavity. They didn't do anything, and she is now fine and lays eggs and forages like everybody else. Made me made at the time, but she's just fine now.

 

[TheAlrightyGina]

If you don't have proper styptic powder, cornstarch will work in a pinch.

 

[HeatherKellyB]

Can you get a hold of some styptic powder?

Please be careful with this as many of the styptic powders/sticks/etc contain pain medication nowadays and it's not advisable to use these pain management agents on fowl.

 

[Weeg]

Please be careful with this as many of the styptic powders/sticks/etc contain pain medication nowadays and it's not advisable to use these pain management agents on fowl.

This is really good info, thank you @HeatherKellyB. I'll definitely keep this in mind.

 

[Weeg]

but it does seem like gaping wounds do better in a wrap, if properly sanitized and medicated it seems to me like wrapping would be fine.

I agree. There are a lot of benefits from wrapping properly, and it probably helps the wound heal for sure. I just can't give instructions on how to wrap properly, so prefer to leave it open rather than risk wrapping incorrectly, and causing further problems.

 

[Tracy W]

Keep it clean and wrapped and keep her inside. It will heal

 

[Carson213]

i would buy more birds and better traps

 

[mamaof2wi]

i would buy more birds and better traps

The raccoon is no longer alive. We live in the country in WI…you can’t get ahead of them this time of year.

 

[mamaof2wi]

I will post pics once clean. The wing is barley attached I believe. It drags on the ground. Being it drags should I wrap?

 

[Isaac 0]

I will post pics once clean. The wing is barley attached I believe. It drags on the ground. Being it drags should I wrap?

The pictures would be nice to see.
If the wing is only hanging on by a thread, I would personally amputate by the nearest joint junction. Afterward clean the wound well, with preferably chlorhexidine, and bandage.
Bandaging consists of three layers; first a non-adherent dressing moistened with whatever antiseptic being used, to the wound, to hold that in place, wrap gauze around or cast padding, and finish off with vet wrap to hold everything in place. This should be changed twice a day initially, then once a day afterward.
I would also recommend antibiotics, and consider weighing the bird to determine if there is current weight loss occurring (which there likely is), that way in a few days you know if the bird will need supplemental tube feeding.
A 5 to 10% decrease would grant tube feeding.