Hen Stuck in Rat Trap Glue

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Peepsi said:
I am curious to know (for future reference) if Goo-Gone is safe to use on animals for this purpose. Goo-Gone seems to get everything that is sticky, clean, and if it's safe for animals, then it would be the best for getting sticky stuff off! (Searching online seems to indicate it is safe for animals, but no one specifies "chickens".)
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No. Goo-gone is not safe to use on chickens as it is a petroleum distillate and highly poisonous. Chickens preen their feathers and even a tiny bit of the solvent can cause paralysis, if not death in several hours.
 
azygous said:
No. Goo-gone is not safe to use on chickens as it is a petroleum distillate and highly poisonous. Chickens preen their feathers and even a tiny bit of the solvent can cause paralysis, if not death in several hours.
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Thank you! Good to know. Like I said, no one mentioned chickens when I looked it up, so I am glad you knew this (And glad I asked).
 
One of our pullets got caught in a rat trap a while back. We used vegetable oil to clean her up a bit and washed the oil out with baby shampoo. We kept her in the house over night to make sure she was warm dry and thriving. The next morning we put her back with her sisters and she has been doing great ever since. It wasn’t perfect. She collected more dirt in her feathers until her molt replaced all affected plumage. But she did survive and become a good layer when she grew up.
 
azygous said:
Don't you wish it was possible to know all the ways something that seems so simple and fool proof can go wrong before you have to discover it the hard way? At least no one died. Well, except the rat.

Sometimes consequences just aren't obvious until after the damage is done. One time early in my chicken keeping, I had a can of wasp spray sitting outside next to the coop. A rooster was outside and somehow jumped on the can and it went off on a hen under the coop, hitting her right in the face, killing her. Who would have ever thought of such a freaky thing even being possible?
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Oh, that's just dreadful! I'm sorry that happened to your hen. As a matter of fact, I brought some wasp spray out there when I was cleaning the coop over the weekend. And just as I shot it at a wasp, I realized a hen was about to run right toward it. I panicked, but she didn't take a hit. I scooted them away and blocked off the area. And I had the same thoughts of "who would've thought such a simple act could have devastating consequences". We got lucky this time, and learned for next time.
 
Coopscraft said:
One of our pullets got caught in a rat trap a while back. We used vegetable oil to clean her up a bit and washed the oil out with baby shampoo. We kept her in the house over night to make sure she was warm dry and thriving. The next morning we put her back with her sisters and she has been doing great ever since. It wasn’t perfect. She collected more dirt in her feathers until her molt replaced all affected plumage. But she did survive and become a good layer when she grew up.
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I was really sad trimming those sticky feathers off. She just finished molting and she was looking really pretty!
 

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