Never in my life have I ever seen a quarter look like that. Is that permanent?@Sally Sunshine I don't have a pictute before, but prior to the dry treatment it looked perfectly normal. Like I said till I went to milk her when I pulled her kid it looked even and fine, but it did not feel normal. Here is the damaged udder, and the blow out in the front. When it started enlarging after the treatment it should have been dealt with, but I was told to treat it and leave it. I did not know it was going wrong till it was really wrong because the case of mastitis I had seen before was larger than the others and remained so till a new kid.
@kwhites634 Your build looks great.
Hope she recovers quickly for you Dax.
Congrats on the one who made it. Sorry to hear about the other.
I'm sorry you had to see this, Jess; I cant imagine her even surviving such an attack. Some animals ignore & leave a weak or dying member of their group. Others will do what your's did. Chickens are bad that way. I hope you can pull her through. I'd monitor that eye closely. I suspect the eye itself would dry out if it can't be moistened by tear ducts ( assuming chickens have such things), and that can't be good. Shes still a good-looking bird, even though she's a mess at the momentGRAPHIC PHOTOS BELOW (sorry, I couldn't figure out the spoiler alert thing)
Disaster struck today. Two of my welbar pullets managed to get into the turkey pen. I found the gap under the fence and fixed it. Both girls are ok at the moment. They must've been running from the turkeys and got themselves wedged between a tree and the chicken wire. The turkeys couldn't get them there but they were pinned and the rest of the chicken flock must've started picking at them. The one was lucky and only has the tip of her one wing chewed up. Not too bad either. THIS one though, I thought she was dead when I found her. She must've wiggled her head through the chicken wire, trying to get out, which made it a target. She was dripping blood all down her face when I found her and was limp, like she'd given up completely. I even saw her get pecked and she didn't even move. I didn't get a picture of her before I treated her but it was horrific. Her skin is completely ripped from the top of her head, the whole way down the back of her neck and the muscle was even missing a couple chunks. She was picked completely bald and the skin on the right side of her head was pulled forward towards her face, exposing her ear and part of her eye. I cleaned her up the best I could and made some makeshift stitches with a needle and heavy thread. It took 6 of them to pull the skin together down the back of her neck. Her left eye is still good and she'll open it and look around but she's sleeping a lot and not moving much. I know she can though because I took her outside to bluekote her head and an escaped turkey came over to see what was up. She went into a panic trying to escape. Her right eye concerns me. Though it doesn't look like there's any damage to the eye itself, The muscles to open and close her eyelid are most likely torn and ruined. Right now, her eyelid on that side looks stretched back a little since I had to pull her skin back some to connect it with the stitches. I'm using an eyedropper to slowly give her vitamin water. Everyone, please wish me luck with her recovery. She's going to need it.
The first 5 pictures were right after I cleaned her up and stitched her together. The last couple were a couple hours later, after some bluekote and rest.
