How to treat chicken with large sores?

[JewellChicks]

My chicken has very large sores on her wings, under her wings, on her back and crop area. I treated them with betadine & Neosporin daily and baths weekly for about two weeks. She was doing better so I let her back with her friends. I put the betadine and Neosporin on periodically, and she was showing improvement. I thought she was on the road to recovery so I did not pay much more attention for a few days to a week. Then I noticed one wing hanging low. I checked her and there was a new (or one that was smaller that I had missed before) sore on her wing. Also her original sores look bad again.
I cleaned the wounds with a betadine wash solution then applied betadine. The next day I put Neosporin and betadine and bandaged the wounds. She is eating fine just has the sores.
For background info she had a bad case of lice which I think was the route cause. I treated her and the flock with Sevin powder, applied 2 times in seven day intervals. Then after an additional seven days treated with wood Ash and DE. Lice/mites do not appear to have come back, just the lesions.
I would like to know if anyone has any suggestions as to what else I can use to treat her sores. I have some Blu-Kote and was tempted to use it but it says it is not for food producing animals.
Also, any advice on wrapping her wounds? She has been pecking more than last time and I do not want her to get sick or pollute her eggs from the betadine, Neosporin or any other product that you may suggest.

 

[Judy]

You might have made it if you had kept her out of the flock til she was fully healed, as the others will attack any open wound or sign of blood or scab. Also, when using Betadine, ti's a good idea to dilute it well, and really, once the wounds are clean, they only need the Neosporin. betadine and peroxide are both excellent germ killers. the problem is, they also kill newcells, so they can slow down healing.

People use BluKote on chickens all the time, despite the label. Commercial requirements like these might be more stringent than we need to follow in our back yard. It is an antiseptic agent. When she is very nearly healed, if you want to tr her back with the flock, that is what I'd put on the wounds.

Trying to dress a wound is usually not worth the bother, IMO. She needs to be in a relatively clean, indoor place while healing, anyway. Wounds need protection from flies and their maggots. There is a medication you can use which is sold for horses, though, that is supposed to keep flies off wounds. I think it's called No Strike, or something like that.

 

[JewellChicks]

You might have made it if you had kept her out of the flock til she was fully healed, as the others will attack any open wound or sign of blood or scab. Also, when using Betadine, ti's a good idea to dilute it well, and really, once the wounds are clean, they only need the Neosporin. betadine and peroxide are both excellent germ killers. the problem is, they also kill newcells, so they can slow down healing.

People use BluKote on chickens all the time, despite the label. Commercial requirements like these might be more stringent than we need to follow in our back yard. It is an antiseptic agent. When she is very nearly healed, if you want to tr her back with the flock, that is what I'd put on the wounds.

Trying to dress a wound is usually not worth the bother, IMO. She needs to be in a relatively clean, indoor place while healing, anyway. Wounds need protection from flies and their maggots. There is a medication you can use which is sold for horses, though, that is supposed to keep flies off wounds. I think it's called No Strike, or something like that.

Thanks for the advice.
I do think we should have waited to let her out with the flock but we did observe quite a bit to see if she was pecked at by the other chickens and to my surprise she was not. Maybe they picked on her when we were not looking... little suckers. Also the rooster on her sore back did not help. I think the unsanitary conditions of the outdoors contributed a lot as well.
But moving forward… that is good to know about the betadine I will dilute it from now on when I use it, but focus on using the antibiotic ointment.
I was dressing the wounds mostly to keep her from pecking at them and eating the betadine/antibiotic ointment. I have not seen much of a fly issue at this point.

 

[JewellChicks]

Thanks for the advice.
I do think we should have waited to let her out with the flock but we did observe quite a bit to see if she was pecked at by the other chickens and to my surprise she was not. Maybe they picked on her when we were not looking... little suckers. Also the rooster on her sore back did not help. I think the unsanitary conditions of the outdoors contributed a lot as well.
But moving forward… that is good to know about the betadine I will dilute it from now on when I use it, but focus on using the antibiotic ointment.
I was dressing the wounds mostly to keep her from pecking at them and eating the betadine/antibiotic ointment. I have not seen much of a fly issue at this point.

BTW what ratio of betadine to water should I use to make the solution?