Missing wing

[LunaChix]

An update! First of all thank you to everyone who took the time to offer much needed commismeration and advise. It is greatly appreciated. "Lucky" is still alive. He is eating and drinking and eliminating fine. I have given him Activia strawberry yoghurt. I am not sure how much he has eaten. I also am still putting crushed up amoxicillian in his water. I put neosporin on his wounds. There is no sign at all of infection. He is missing about a half dollar size piece of skin on his left "drum stick". He has a little tuft of neck feathers that coverup where the wing was attached to his body. When I lift up the feather to apply the neosporin there, I see no sign of infection. It is hard for me as a newbie to determine the healing as it "hurts me" to see his injury

I feel as long as there continues to be no sign of infection, that this tuff chick will make it!
I am still not sure what to do about the tip of the bone that protrudes.
I have not used the red kote on the injuries yesturday and so far today (just the neosporin) should I put a dab of it on him?
Thanks again!

 

[farrier!]

Great job!

I would hope the red kote would help keep some nasties from going after the bone.

With luck the dead part of the bone will fall off as it dies.

Sure sounds good so far!

 

[LunaChix]

Lucky has not been outside since this happenned. She has been isolated in a parrot cage inside the house. I think that has kept away from her any infection from flies/maggotts or any other "thing" or germ that culd have blown on her injuries. Should I wash down injuries with red kote--I have not used it in 2 days...

 

[farrier!]

The red kote I have used before is pretty sticky and easy to get to cover areas. Keeping the bone covered with something will help.

I had a horse years ago really tear his front leg up. I finally had to remove some dead scrapings from his cannon bone. After the dead bone was removed the huge wound granulated over with no problem.

If her injuries follow the horses things may look "bad" again within a week as the bone without a blood supply dies. Good news is that once that happens things heal really fast.

So...keep at it and don't get upset if things get a bit smelly again in a bit.

 

[chickbea]

You are a brave and fearless person! Good heavens.
As long as there is still no sign of infection, I think that keeping her safe from flies and keeping the wound clean is the best nursing care you can do. I wouldn't start messing with removing any more of the bone if there is no infection; that may just cause more trouble, but that's just my humble opinion...
Does it look like the wing was bitten off cleanly as opposed to being chewed or ripped off? Since you are dealing with a chick in a rapid growth stage as opposed to an adult hen, you may be pleasantly surprised, as they can heal pretty fast. I hope that is the case with little Lucky. I'll be thinking of you guys.

 

[LunaChix]

Chickabea, the wing was ripped through the bars of the cage. There has never been a mal odor. To recap, I have been putting human amoxicilian in drinking water, Sat., Sun., and Mon. red kote and neosporin on wounded area and patch of missing skin on leg. Unless you are looking at injured side of Lucky, his behavior would never let you guess that he has suffered such a traumatic injury. I just cleaned his cage, and put on some pats of red kote. Which he did not enjoy

No sign of any infection
thanks for interest and comments:0

 

[pawprnts88]

I used to work with a parakeet that had it's wing ripped off by a lovebird and ended up just fine. It's amazing how something tiny can kill one bird but another can be such a fighter.