Neck Inury from Fishing line -advice?

[Eggcessive]

Catheter tip syringe available online from Amazon and some farm stores. @casportpony is a good person who may have suggestions about everything tube feeding, so hopefully, she will chime in.

 

[MasAhora]

The red rubber catheters are less stiff and softer to insert. They come in many sizes so that a small one would probably go in. Those will connect to a catheter tip syringe, while the air tubing works with a regular 35 ml syringe from a feed store.

I am concerned that the ligatures around the neck may be permanent and get worse as she grows. Is there any way that you could consult with a vet or avian vet in your area? I realize that that would be difficult and probably too expensive for most of us with chickens, but just wondered.

There is not a way to keep a feeding tube in a chicken as we can with people, which would keep her esophagus open as she heals. I don’t know if an avian vet could use a permanent tube into the crop through the skin that was sutured in place or not. They probably could cut out some scar tissue from the skin however.

I have worked with children years ago that swallowed caustic Drano, and who suffered burns and scarring of the esophagus. Many of those kids required treatment for years dilating or stretching the esophagus in order to eat again.

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Vets around here are not interested in treating individual birds/chickens.
It is looking like euthanasia is kinder. I do send extra chickens to freezer camp but had hoped this little one would join the permanent flock - poor thing, it was having a great time with the big kids until this.

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

I’m so sorry.....

 

[ronott1]

Hopefully the scarring will not be too bad and the chick will be able to eat soon. The coconut oil will help keep the scar soft