Is This Infected? ****GRAPHIC PICS****

[For-The-Love-Of-Chickens]

We are on day 5 of recovery from a dog attack. This is the wound in her chest. It was all the way through the skin and fat, and she had a pretty significant tear in the chest muscle itself. I have never treated a wound like this before and other than trying to trust my nose, I don't know what to expect her wound to look like.

Here is what we have done so far:

Within a couple of hours of injury: Wounds were completely flushed with warm water followed by hydrogen peroxide. She was then packed in neosporin. She never experienced shock. Was always eating and drinking. We repeated the neosporin again that evening.

Day 2: Wounds were flushed with 50/50 solution of hydrogen peroxide and water. No foul odor was detected upon sniffing. She was sprayed with colloidal silver and her wound was packed with neosporin.

Day 3: Wound was sprayed with colloidal silver and packed with neosporin. No foul odor detected.

Day 4: Wound was sprayed with colloidal silver and packed with neosporin. No foul odor was detected.

Day 5: Wound was sprayed with colloidal silver and packed in neosporin. Once the green color was noticed, we repeated the colloidal silver and neosporin. No foul odor is present and I stuck my nose about as close as I dare to get it.

She is active, eating, drinking, mad as hell she can't go outside with everyone else, and she lays her eggs.

The wound itself looks to be about 25% the size it was five days ago and you can no longer tell the underlying structures as you could clearly before (fat or muscle). I am just concerned about the color. Is it normal? Infection? A chemical reaction with the neosporin and the colloidal silver?

Here are the pics:

And what she used to look like:

Thanks for your help.

 

[Dar]

it could be from the silver... i would keep flushing the wound.. if there is no smell i would say you are fine

 

[lilblessings5]

well- I don't know but it sounds like if she is eating, drinking, pooping and laying eggs those are all great signs.

Beautiful bird by the way...best of luck.

 

[spamee34]

awww poor thing I so hope she gets better. I would give her a shot of tylan just to help her heal or did ya do that I kinda didn't read closely. She is one beautiful chicken.

 

[dfchaser]

it is good that there is no odor along with the wound. I am not sure what would cause the color change. It is also good that the wound is getting smaller. I did not see anything in your notes about an antibiotic and that would surely help. If it were me, I would do 1cc penicillin squirted onto the wound itself and then 1cc of tylan 200 (1/2 in breast muscle and 1/2 under the skin)

She is a beautiful bird, i hope her healing continues to progress!

 

[M@M@2four]

I would pack it BIG TIME with Neosporin--that's what I have always used on open wounds for my chickens and it has healed them so much faster!!!

 

[For-The-Love-Of-Chickens]

I am almost 99% sure that it is in fact the silver combining with the neosporin. She preens a fair amount of the neosporin out of her feathers and then drinks water that has silver in it as well. A few hours later we get a poop the same color green as her wound. All poops otherwise are normal.