Knee bone showing post attack

[Yardfulla poopers]

I have a hen who has survived a bobcat attack but had a large chunk of meat taken from her leg. I've been alternating between putting blukote, honey and and vetericyn on it. It's been three weeks and the meat part of it has scabbed up well but the bone at the knee is still protruding. I'm just wondering if it will ever again get skin over the bone. She walks with a slight limp but seems to be doing okay. No feathers have started to grow which concerns me because the other two that were wounded in separate attacks have started to get feathers back in. She picks at it occasionally but not enough to pull scabs.
I guess I'm just hoping that since her wound was so much worse than the others, it will take a lot longer to heal but that it WILL eventually heal.
In case you're wondering...I did get the bobcat finally but know another will take it's place, so being very diligent and taking a lot of new safety measures.

 

[Eggcessive]

Sorry about your hen. I lost 3 hens to a bobcat in the middle of the afternoon last month. We saw it taking the last body over the fence in broad daylight. Normally when a bone is exposed, I would recommend a vet to close the wound and give strong antibiotics, such as clindamycin, cephalexin or others, because of the risk of bone infection. Regular honey is not good to use on open wounds, but Manuka honey especially for wound care would bess less likely to contain bacteria and cause infection. BluKote is strictly for minor scrapes and wounds, not deep ones. Chlorhexidene 2% would be much better as an antiseptic. Then I recommend plain Neosporin ointment to keep the wound most twice a day after cleaning gently. But it seems she is doing okay so far. I am not sure that skin will ever grow over the bone. There are some hydrogel dressings creams and pads available online and in your local drugstores that might be good to try. Here is a link to many different ones:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=hydrogel...9710756&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_ebrx47fg4_e

 

[Yardfulla poopers]

Thank you.

 

[Eggcessive]

You’re welcome. Let us know how she gets along.

 

[Yardfulla poopers]

I will. I'll start Neosporin tonight and get some of the hydrogel pads.

 

[Yardfulla poopers]

Sorry about your hen. I lost 3 hens to a bobcat in the middle of the afternoon last month. We saw it taking the last body over the fence in broad daylight. Normally when a bone is exposed, I would recommend a vet to close the wound and give strong antibiotics, such as clindamycin, cephalexin or others, because of the risk of bone infection. Regular honey is not good to use on open wounds, but Manuka honey especially for wound care would bess less likely to contain bacteria and cause infection. BluKote is strictly for minor scrapes and wounds, not deep ones. Chlorhexidene 2% would be much better as an antiseptic. Then I recommend plain Neosporin ointment to keep the wound most twice a day after cleaning gently. But it seems she is doing okay so far. I am not sure that skin will ever grow over the bone. There are some hydrogel dressings creams and pads available online and in your local drugstores that might be good to try. Here is a link to many different ones:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=hydrogel...9710756&tag=googhydr-20&ref=pd_sl_ebrx47fg4_e

Also sorry to hear about your hen. We lost several ducks, one hen and had 3 others wounded before I got it. As of yesterday, everyone is inside electric netting. No more free ranging for a while.

 

[Yardfulla poopers]

Thank you so much Eggcessive! After just a week of daily Neosporin, the scab (which was the size of a golf ball) is now the size of a dime and the skin is growing in over the bone.
I'm so relieved!!

 

[Eggcessive]

So glad to hear that. Thank for the update, and I hope that the skin continues to grow over the bone.