Momma-Hen-Misti
Songster
Friday night, came home to an injured 1 year old (May 2021) EE hen. Put her in a crate in the garage where it is dark & quiet with food & water. She's missing a little skin on her shoulder area & meat showing, missing several feathers from back of neck & saw feather/skin hanging from neck/crop area. Sprayed with Vetercyn & got her to drink some from syringe. I kept hearing a weird gurgling noise that made me think injury to crop. She lived through the night & was way more alert yesterday. (Saturday) Last night (24 hours after injury) She was given hard boiled egg yolk & she was going to town on it. I mixed some vitamin & electrolytes up & put in her waterer. It has an orange color to it & I noticed after she took several drinks, liquid was dripping onto the pad she was standing on. I hollered for my husband so he could verify I wasn't losing my mind. She took a few more drinks & more liquid came out. At this point she's got quite the puddle & then CHUNKS of that egg yolk fell out onto the pad. I looked at my husband & lost it. I HATE the thought of culling her, especially since she is alert, walking around & is eating & drinking. We haven't looked at her crop injury...trying to let her rest & heal some. Now that we've let her rest again overnight, what do y'all suggest? Besides getting a good look at the injury & see how big the hole is...With the size of the chunks that fell out, I'm not thinking it's anything small but I could be wrong. That egg yolk was in nearly 5 minutes before falling out & I'm not sure it would've all fallen out if she hadn't drank as much as she did. Let's say we try to close up the crop wound, what would we use? && where can I find it? HELP!
