MY CHIICKEN'S BACK WAS RIPPED OFF! Wound care advice needed

[NaturalWitchery]

Hello everyone,
While gone one day our puppy eipped all the feathers off my chickens back. It was healing and scabbed, skin intact.
We've been tethering our dog, but he got free somehow today.
I found my girl with the skin gone on her back! Why she keeps jumping out, I will never know?
I have cleaned with saline wash, coated with triple antibiotic ointment and covered with non stick gauze, securing around her mid section. She has electrolytes in her water. Gave asprin for pain.
I'm going to spike her eggs with amoxicillin. She is eating and drinking but obviously in a lot of pain.
??? How would you handle a wound with no skin?
????Any other suggestions????
??? I didn't poke around a lot, but if she makes it tonight I'm going to see if somehow there's enough skin to pull over and stitch???Bad idea????
This is, of course, my favorite hen.
I have her in a large dog crate with food, water and a short roost she is resting on. Cage is covered to block from wind and prying eyes.
SUGGESTIONS APPRECIATED

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I have cleaned with saline wash, coated with triple antibiotic ointment and covered with non stick gauze, securing around her mid section. She has electrolytes in her water. Gave asprin for pain.
I'm going to spike her eggs with amoxicillin. She is eating and drinking but obviously in a lot of pain.
??? How would you handle a wound with no skin?

Welcome To BYC

Clean and flush the wound with saline, trim feathers away from the wound to keep it cleaner, then apply your triple antibiotic ointment.

Leave the wound uncovered unless she's picking at it.
Looks like she's been bleeding some, Aspirin is probably not the best choice. If you have vet care, ask for some Meloxicam, otherwise, I'd leave off the aspirin.

If a wound is cleaned, ointment is applied and tended to at least daily, often antibiotics are not necessary. If you feel she needs them then give the correct dose orally so you are sure she's getting the medication. Sprinkling on food - most of the time they won't eat all the food. Amoxicillin dose is 57mg per pound of weight given orally Twice A Day for 7-10 days.

Having the feathers ripped out, this will take time to heal.

Here's some visuals on healing:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/wounds-pictures-of-how-they-heal.1325817/
Here's how to give medication:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

 

[NaturalWitchery]

Welcome To BYC

Clean and flush the wound with saline, trim feathers away from the wound to keep it cleaner, then apply your triple antibiotic ointment.

Leave the wound uncovered unless she's picking at it.
Looks like she's been bleeding some, Aspirin is probably not the best choice. If you have vet care, ask for some Meloxicam, otherwise, I'd leave off the aspirin.

If a wound is cleaned, ointment is applied and tended to at least daily, often antibiotics are not necessary. If you feel she needs them then give the correct dose orally so you are sure she's getting the medication. Sprinkling on food - most of the time they won't eat all the food. Amoxicillin dose is 57mg per pound of weight given orally Twice A Day for 7-10 days.

Having the feathers ripped out, this will take time to heal.

Here's some visuals on healing:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/wounds-pictures-of-how-they-heal.1325817/
Here's how to give medication:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

Thanks for the reply.

There is no skin. Something ate it off in the last day. It was there yesterday, and POOF!

I hope that it will grow back? Tissue exposed.

 

[Eggcessive]

Be sure to separate her in a dog crate from the others. Is she locked in a secure coop at night?

 

[NaturalWitchery]

Be sure to separate her in a dog crate from the others. Is she locked in a secure coop at night?

Yes. She is in a dog crate on my porch.
Also, my coop is Forte Knox for getting in to. She just jumps out.
I'm hoping after this, she will stop getting out on her own.
We have a farm, so it's tantalizing to free range.
She's alive today. We made it the first night

 

[MarlaMac]

I'm going to spike her eggs with amoxicillin.

Amoxicillin tastes awful. A better option is to make pills by mixing in required amount of Amoxicillin into a dob of coconut oil and freeze. When it is dosing time, just take a "pill" and pop it in her mouth. Much easier and she will take in the correct dosage.

 

[SmiYa0126]

Did she do this to herself? Maybe because she was itchy.

 

[NaturalWitchery]

Amoxicillin tastes awful. A better option is to make pills by mixing in required amount of Amoxicillin into a dob of coconut oil and freeze. When it is dosing time, just take a "pill" and pop it in her mouth. Much easier and she will take in the correct dosage.

Great idea! Thank you. Brilliant

 

[NaturalWitchery]

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Did she do this to herself? Maybe because she was itchy.

I am really unsure. The original wound was feom our dog pulling the feathers out, but her skin was there. If she did it, she ate an eight inch circle of her skin and fat off. Seems unlikely, but chickens are not bright. Yesterday I had her in the chicken yard to stretch with all the others locked out. A hen flew over, attacked her and ripped her bandage off.
It's definitely tricky here with the dynamics!

 

[MarlaMac]

Great idea! Thank you. Brilliant

Have to give credit to @Wyorp Rock - she gave me that idea when I had to dose on of my gals. How is she doing?