Hens skin on neck sliced wide open on fence

[Birdielee]

How often do they need to add grit? She hasn't been out much. I haven't provided official grit. I gave her rinsed beach pebbles, but they're pretty picked over, and she usually wanders around the yard more than she's gotten to since she got hurt.
330 in the afternoon. Livin' the life! (What cut?!)

 

[Birdielee]

I have a video! I'm working on uploading it. I vetericyned her today. She's been without the bandage all night and day. Think I should definitely cover it back up?

 

[Birdielee]

She's happy as a clam. Or happier.

What do you guys think about the down left inside? Do you think her body will break it down after a while?

 

[humblehillsfarm]

It needs to heal now and staying wet and covered isn't going to help it.

Actually wound heal 3-5 times faster when kept moist, and it reduces itchiness and improves scar tissue as well. There are countless, countless benefits to keeping it moist, and countless amounts of research to prove it.

https://www.woundsource.com/blog/benefits-moist-wound-healing

 

[Birdielee]

Ok, well, videos aren't allowed, apparently. Just as well.

 

[Birdielee]

This afternoon

 

[Birdielee]

Still not really eating. She DID eat today when I gave her the absolute last of the dumor crumbles. She hated that food until i started fermenting it. I've read that a lot of chickens aren't cool with switching food shape. Maybe I've got one of those? Maybe I'll put some pellets in the blender for a second and see what she thinks.

Can she just eat sunflower seeds and flax seeds and such things? For a while?

 

[Birdielee]

Ellis

 

[Birdielee]

The cut goes down midway between my thumb and forefinger

 

[Birdielee]

"Lidocaine must be precisely dosed, and even so, the dose necessary to provide local anesthesia is greater than the toxic dose, in most cases (in small birds). It can be used in tame, large birds, if necessary. Another problem with using a local anesthetic agent is because restraining a bird awake is often very stressful. Signs of overdose with lidocaine may include excitement initially, seizures, depression, respiratory arrest, cardiovascular collapse and death."

That was an excerpt from and exoticpetvet.net.

For pain you can give her baby aspirin. Just make sure she's not actively bleeding.

Dose for chickens: Approx. 25 mg per pound of chicken's body weight each day.

• Examples: For a 6-lb. Large Fowl Leghorn rooster, give 1 baby aspirin or 1/4 of a regular aspirin for a morning dose, and the same amount for an evening dose ( = ~150 mg total per day).

Huh! I never saw the second half of this, with aspirin dosing