- May 21, 2017
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About a month ago I rescued a pigeon with several wounds. Most of them healed well, but now it looks like he has an ingrown feather? What should I do about this?
There used to be a shallow wound in the same area.
Also, one of the pigeon’s wounds is still open and healing, it’s a small but deep wound on his chest that keeps filling with dead tissue (which I remove with tweezers). Is there anyway to speed up the healing process other than daily debridement? I actually stopped the daily debridement recently (I thought I might impede healing), but the wound seems to have gotten bigger since then, so should I go back to it?
Before I stopped the daily debridements:
After (picture from a few days ago):
Also, one of the pigeon’s wounds is still open and healing, it’s a small but deep wound on his chest that keeps filling with dead tissue (which I remove with tweezers). Is there anyway to speed up the healing process other than daily debridement? I actually stopped the daily debridement recently (I thought I might impede healing), but the wound seems to have gotten bigger since then, so should I go back to it?
Before I stopped the daily debridements:
After (picture from a few days ago):