help w/ injured pullet...puncture wound...Can I Use Horse Products?

[Brenda Vause]

Our 2 month old cochin pullet was of quite a few victims of an attack by neighbor's dog yesterday. She is surviving so far...5 dead and more missing...well she hid out and we couldnt find her til a bit ago and she has a nasty smelly puncture around the base of her wing..the puncture has maggots which we are trying to remove. She also has many feathers missing and scrapes. She seems in pretty good spirits with a will to try to live. We have horse topical medications... Farnam Tri Care which says its for horses and dogs, not to apply to meat producing animals. It has a consistency like vaseline and an odor like it as well, at least to me. We will not eat this chicken but she will produce eggs someday. We also have Farnam Scarlex which is a spray that coats with a blue coloring. We also have Peroxide but do not know if we can apply to chickens. We live in a seafood industry/beach/vacation community with no feed store or Tractor Supply for at least and hour and half. Please let me know if I can used the products mentioned or what human products. Thanks.

 

[cassie]

No reason you can't use horse products. The maggots help clean up dead tissue, but they can start on the live tissue also. I keep screwworm spray on hand to get rid of them. Peroxide will clean the wound. I have also used a terramycin powder on open wounds.

 

[dawg53]

Our 2 month old cochin pullet was of quite a few victims of an attack by neighbor's dog yesterday. She is surviving so far...5 dead and more missing...well she hid out and we couldnt find her til a bit ago and she has a nasty smelly puncture around the base of her wing..the puncture has maggots which we are trying to remove. She also has many feathers missing and scrapes. She seems in pretty good spirits with a will to try to live. We have horse topical medications... Farnam Tri Care which says its for horses and dogs, not to apply to meat producing animals. It has a consistency like vaseline and an odor like it as well, at least to me. We will not eat this chicken but she will produce eggs someday. We also have Farnam Scarlex which is a spray that coats with a blue coloring. We also have Peroxide but do not know if we can apply to chickens. We live in a seafood industry/beach/vacation community with no feed store or Tractor Supply for at least and hour and half. Please let me know if I can used the products mentioned or what human products. Thanks.

I dont recommend neither product to treat your chickens. The Farnam Tri Care contains tea tree oil and benzocaine, a deadly combination for chickens. The Farnam Scarlex contains alcohol which is not recommended for punctures, it would burn. It would be good to mix a 50/50 solution of hydrogen peroxide with water and flush the wounds with that solution. An even better mixture would be 50/50 betadine and water mixture. Then pat dry the wounds and liberally apply neosporin.

 

[Brenda Vause]

thanks so much for your replies. I have peroxide available and will definately use that on her. I'll have to order some screwworm spray from somewhere. Another pullet came out of hiding and she has a deep puncture wound but not many other sores. She is the wildest chicken we have but she let us catch her pretty easily. We have both pullets seperated from the other chickens. I just hate what happened. 4 chickens dead for sure, another's wing was found so he's assumed dead. One pullet found tonight has a look alike cockeral brother/mate and they love each other as much as chickens could, always close and looking for each other. But he's gone. 2 chickens totally missing, one of them was pretty special to us...

 

[Habibs Hens]

where where your chicken that the dog attacked

did the dog come onto your property

if so speak to neighbour as thats not acceptable

i would be heart broken if i had that sort of loss

and annoyed too

 

[Brenda Vause]

The chickens were free ranging in my yard. Because nothing really happened too often and there seemed to be no problems I guess I became too relaxed with chickens out. I was at work and my daughter was supposed to be home but she had gone to her boyfriends house about 4 blocks away. Well, his dog came to my property and did all that damage. When she came home she noticed the dog there and caught him for her bf to come pick up. She saw the damage a little later when our beagle showed her a hurt chicken. He barked and barked until my daughter, who shares this BYC thing with me, followed him and found the chicken. He then helped her track some live and some dead chickens. She was so upset she called me at work at that point. That dog had been to the house before chasing chickens and terrorizing them but I made John get him and take him home. He did kill one pullet that day. But now, a month later, this really upset us. The boyfriend used to bring the dog and tie him up...but now that dog is NEVER allowed on the property! Our dogs, a beagle and an old boxer don't bother the chickens. Most of the chickens are my 17 year old daughter's as she was the one that brought the first chickens home...I came to enjoy them too...but my favorites usually do get killed. Lemondrop, a red cochin baby, was killed by a neighbor's bulldog pup. But luckily that neighbor moved away taking the pups too.

 

[Brenda Vause]

Both pullets had a mass of maggots...enough that I cannot get the image out ot my head. The wet weather we have sure doesn't help. But I called a vet who wouldn't see her and did give some help over the phone. First flush the wound out w/ peroxide then coat w/ Adam's Flea Spray. Both have been treated and we also applied Pierce's All-Purpose Nu-Stock my daughter found at the drug store. Hopefully all will go well from here.