help with injured chicken

[Island Roo]

Now that I see that - no soap.
I have never given injections but I agree with speckledhills and would learn how or get someone to do it for me on this hen.

Just have to wait and see on the pooping.

 

[DURR]

You can give Penacilin orally as well. Its what I do to mine and they recover real well with doing it that way too. I use a syringe that goes by half a CC and give them about two lines up from the needle.

 

[DURR]

Oops. Dbl post.

 

[marvun22]

it was out with the rest of the chickens all day yesterday and nothing hapened. would it be safe for it to be outside with the others for a while today. it seems really bored in my teeny cattle tank.

 

[DURR]

I'd keep it away from dirt cause of infection.

 

[PoultryPedia]

It's hard to keep them in when they seem to want out. I'd put her with the other birds for at least a little while (as long as they don't pick on her) every day so they maintain their relationships & she's not a stranger when she goes back to living with the flock full-time. But, like DURR said, I think minimizing dirt is important, as well as minimizing wear & tear on injuries.
You might want to build a little perch (Maybe a 2x4 laid the flat way screwed to two cross-way pieces of 2x4s forming perch "legs") for her in the tank so it keeps her body raised up out of poop when she sits down on it.

 

[Michael Apple]

What SpeckledHills said is good advice. You mentioned a stock tank you were keeping the bird in when not with the other birds. I think it is important to keep the bird from a cold environment in addition to keeping that wound clean. If you think the bird has internal damage like you mentioned in the other thread, I would take the hen to an avian vet. You don't want infection to take place.

 

[marvun22]

my bird actually sleep on the food bowl it doesnt lay in its poop. michael apple my syringes are too small for almost anything but i gave my hen just the mashed up hard boiled egg yolks and she liked them. speckledhills the others dont pick on her when she's out and she's sometimes with them and sometimes not.