Wi_Pida
Songster
I’m in the middle of a poultry rescue. I’ve been treating most of the flock for bumblefoot. I’ve also brought home 16 of the chickens and a duck due to severe overcrowding ( 50+ chickens in a run for 15 to 20 & 7 Pekin ducks with 1 mallard 5 month old in a 6’x10’ run with no housing, 10 larger white turkeys with 5 small red turkeys in the same size run as the ducks ), appalling conditions (coop and run hadn’t been cleaned in 2 years with no bedding anywhere and the ducks were in at least 1 ft of mud and poopy water ).
I've rehomed the Pekin and divided the turkeys between the 2 runs, I’ve rehomed all but 24 chickens.
The question I have is on 2 of 16 hens I’ve taken in because they were in extremely bad health. Two of hen I brought home I put into dog kennels in a dark and quiet place and the others I have in quarantine. The 2 hens have conditions I’ve never had to deal with before. The first hen we’ve named Stumpy. They said she escaped from the coop and was attacked by something. My guess is a raccoon. She had her wing ripped off. When they found her they didn’t treat her for the injury and just put her back in the coop with the others.
1 week after they found her, I was called in and took her home immediately. The stump of her wing was still bleeding when I got her. I cleaned and removed all debris. For 8 days now, I’ve been applying peroxide and Vetericyn. I’ve attempted to wrap her wing but she keeps removing the bandage. Is there anything else that I need to do or change in my treatment of her?
The second hen has a prolapsed vent. It was covered in about a 1/2 inch of poo and dirt. After doing 3 days of soaking her in water/apple cider vinegar for 30 minutes twice a day, I finally got it cleaned. The second day after treating her I did have to remove an egg from her vent. Thank goodness it didn’t have a shell. Today she laid another egg but it had a shell and now she’s bleeding slightly from the vent. I’ve been using Vetericyn for the bleeding and Prep-H to decrease the swelling and try to get her vent back in with no luck but with it being swelled (looks like one side of the vent is larger them the other side so I don’t know if I should wait for the swelling is down before trying to push it back in? When I do try pushing it back in she resists by baring down. Below is how it looks right now.
Sorry to go into such detail as to the conditions of the rescue but I figured it might be important. Any advice would be greatly appreciate. The last thing I want to do is have to cull either hens. They are such sweethearts.
I've rehomed the Pekin and divided the turkeys between the 2 runs, I’ve rehomed all but 24 chickens.
The question I have is on 2 of 16 hens I’ve taken in because they were in extremely bad health. Two of hen I brought home I put into dog kennels in a dark and quiet place and the others I have in quarantine. The 2 hens have conditions I’ve never had to deal with before. The first hen we’ve named Stumpy. They said she escaped from the coop and was attacked by something. My guess is a raccoon. She had her wing ripped off. When they found her they didn’t treat her for the injury and just put her back in the coop with the others.
The second hen has a prolapsed vent. It was covered in about a 1/2 inch of poo and dirt. After doing 3 days of soaking her in water/apple cider vinegar for 30 minutes twice a day, I finally got it cleaned. The second day after treating her I did have to remove an egg from her vent. Thank goodness it didn’t have a shell. Today she laid another egg but it had a shell and now she’s bleeding slightly from the vent. I’ve been using Vetericyn for the bleeding and Prep-H to decrease the swelling and try to get her vent back in with no luck but with it being swelled (looks like one side of the vent is larger them the other side so I don’t know if I should wait for the swelling is down before trying to push it back in? When I do try pushing it back in she resists by baring down. Below is how it looks right now.
Sorry to go into such detail as to the conditions of the rescue but I figured it might be important. Any advice would be greatly appreciate. The last thing I want to do is have to cull either hens. They are such sweethearts.
