My chicken has an injury in her mouth

[Fatemeh]

Hello all,

My 6-month old chicken was trying to eat a worm from a fishing hook that a friend had left in our garden when the hook badly injured the muscles under her tongue. This was three days ago. she was bleeding the firs few hours. It doesn't look like she has any open wound but she has trouble swallowing food and some food remains in her mouth. Also, it seems like under her beak between her waddles is swollen and it becomes more noticeable every day. We have tried to feed her with small pieces of dough and sometimes we feed her with plastic syringe as much as possible but she still eats stuff off the ground which remains in her mouth. She looks and acts normal otherwise. She has been laying eggs even after the injury. What do you think we can do and how serious do you think the condition is?

 

[DobieLover]

Hello all,

My 6-month old chicken was trying to eat a worm from a fishing hook that a friend had left in our garden when the hook badly injured the muscles under her tongue. This was three days ago. she was bleeding the firs few hours. It doesn't look like she has any open wound but she has trouble swallowing food and some food remains in her mouth. Also, it seems like under her beak between her waddles is swollen and it becomes more noticeable every day. We have tried to feed her with small pieces of dough and sometimes we feed her with plastic syringe as much as possible but she still eats stuff off the ground which remains in her mouth. She looks and acts normal otherwise. She has been laying eggs even after the injury. What do you think we can do and how serious do you think the condition is?

There isn't much you can do other than see if it will heal.
Offer her a wet mash made out of her feed and see if she can eat that better.

Do you have any amoxicillin? You can buy Fishmox on many different online sites. I would get a bottle of 250 mg capsules and give her one every 12 hours for 7 days to counter the possibility of infection from the hook piercing her flesh.

 

[Chicalina]

it looks infected to me. I second the use of antibiotics.

 

[Artichoke Lover]

Definitely looks infected fishing hooks are nasty. Antibiotics 3x
I also 2nd trying a wet mash. Or even scrambled eggs to see if
She can eat them. You have to be careful using a syringe with chickens since they can aspirate food or water easily.

 

[Fatemeh]

There isn't much you can do other than see if it will heal.
Offer her a wet mash made out of her feed and see if she can eat that better.

Do you have any amoxicillin? You can buy Fishmox on many different online sites. I would get a bottle of 250 mg capsules and give her one every 12 hours for 7 days to counter the possibility of infection from the hook piercing her flesh.

She is getting much better! Thanks!