Leg Injury - What should I do next

[Shadrach]

It's horribly messy but it sticks like poop to a blanket and forms a hard skin. As you can imagine, just what you need for an injured hoof.

 

[Eggcessive]

It is messy. Stockholm tar, pine tar, and coal tar are the same things that have been used for a centuries. I used it for horse hooves a while ago. It can cause cancer, but has been widely used. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_tar#Safety

 

[Shadrach]

I just can't get a lot of the medical stuff recommended on this site easily.
Sure, there are possible side effects but most of the medicines have them; look at what prolonged use of Metacam does for example, or many of the antibiotics.
What you do have to watch out for is where you use it. Any areas under the wings for example is a definite no; if you've used it you'll understand why.
I've used it for wounds to the back of the head; chicks badly pecked by adults, rat bites, lots of leg injuries including broken off spurs, some back wounds.
It is a one shot treatment though. Once it's on there isn't any cleaning it off.
It does seem to do what it says on the tin. It seals the wound and often this is all you need.
There are varieties with antibiotic properties, here the sheep vets use these.
If we didn't use anything with possible side effects we would be pretty much reduced to water.

 

[Eggcessive]

We have had some old farmers and a guy from England recommend Stockholm/pine tar for hiding and healing and stopping pecking with good success. It had been used pretty much forever in all kinds of products. Most anything we use has some property that some don’t want to use. BluKote has gentian violet, and although gentian violet was used orally to treat thrush in babies when I first started nursing school, nowadays people would freak out if that was recommended. Turpentine was another thing years ago used as a home remedy.

 

[Shadrach]

We have had some old farmers and a guy from England recommend Stockholm/pine tar for hiding and healing and stopping pecking with good success. It had been used pretty much forever in all kinds of products. Most anything we use has some property that some don’t want to use. BluKote has gentian violet, and although gentian violet was used orally to treat thrush in babies when I first started nursing school, nowadays people would freak out if that was recommended. Turpentine was another thing years ago used as a home remedy.

Strangely I am an old farmer guy from England

 

[ChickenGirl555]

Ok she is doing better. She is starting to walk normally, only limping when she runs and standing on one foot. It’s starting to scab over.

 

[Shadrach]

Ok she is doing better. She is starting to walk normally, only limping when she runs and standing on one foot. It’s starting to scab over.
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Great! Now cut the rest off and you won't have this problem again.

 

[ChickenGirl555]

Great! Now cut the rest off and you won't have this problem again.

Yeah, there was only one more with a leg band and she has thin legs so we just took hers off easily, no injuries. Now they just have fair leg bands that aren't sharp and we purposely made so wide that they would have to be some chunky chickens if they ever got too big for them.