Is my turkey going to be OK?? Predator injury with pics. HELP!

[khs2424]

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Yes there is throat and muscle exposed. It's not protruding in the sense that it's hanging out of place. To best describe it, it's like the skin was completely ripped away, exposing all the internal parts of the neck. It is with other turkeys but honestly, they don't seem to be bothering it. For now anyways.

Thanks everyone!

 

[chickenzoo]

I have had wounds like that on some birds. Spray it with blue coat antibiotic spray and also a wound dressing that has a protect-ant in it. I have a baby Alpaca that had the skin ripped off it's side about the size of a dinner plate. People told me to put it down, but after a month it is still doing great and the skin is starting to heal up. Best wishs

 

[ColbyNTX]

It should be fine and grow back. Like others have said, keep it clean and the peckers away. I would put it in a wire cage inside the coop to keep it out of the dirt and the others away. You want to pen it in the coop so when the predator returns, and it will, it can't get to it!

 

[<3 N.C Chicken Chick <3]

My seabright had an dog bite lots of feathers flesh.

I took it inside had an lamp put neosporne on it an lot, she started to peck and pull at the wounds so I put band-aids on her as well after about an week all better

I would get an medical wrap and pad and put neosporn and wrap it around her neck. tip if you take her out of the group it is hard

to put her back in they don't remember her! Good Luck

 

[aggieterpkatie]

How is the turkey doing?

 

[khs2424]

Turkey is actually doing pretty well. The wound has scabbed over and there seems to be no ill effects from the injury. Only problem I can foresee is maybe some scaring on his/her neck but that's great compared to what I thought was going to be the outcome. I'll try to get a pic of the turkey now so y'all can see the difference. It's amazing what these birds can handle.

Thanks for asking.

 

[aggieterpkatie]

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That's great!!

 

[ShadyHoller]

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I dealt with a similar situation once. That makes me an expert on this type of stuff, right?

Having appointed myself as an expert, I'll just say - I was amazed at the wound that our injured bird recovered from. It was a deep cut down through the back, all the way down into the muscle at the top of the thigh. I knew there would be no way to keep it clean, and I thought the humane thing to do would be to cull the bird. But she was still active and seemed inclined to tough it out. A few months later, when it came time for some old birds to get cycled out and go into the stew pot, this old gal had a massive scar, but was otherwise heavy and well-muscled. So go figure. A wound like that would have killed me dead.

(edited to fix typo)