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TexasSam said:
The only thing I can think of is I have a hen with chicks in the garage with them do you think she would do this if I left the top off
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my turkey hen attacked .. middle of the week she took offense to a one week old chick and thrusted her head through 2x4 wire door and yanked the chick through and shook it like a dog with a rat. I opened the door and grabbed her by the neck and made her drop it... it didn't survive... she is now blocked off by chicken wire in the end of the coop.. she is not very happy. Hopefully she will calm down in a week or so.

she was fine with chicks and poults coming by when she was sitting.. but she sure is a she devil now.. I thought about taking the poults away from her and giving them to a broody chicken, but figured she would try to take them back or steals some from another
 
TexasSam said:
Well posted a thread about it hopefully I can get more answers. Do y’all think I should cake it with flour or something
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No! No flour.

If it needs cleaning, just be ever so gentle. No peroxide or alcohol.

Do you have any saline?
Like eye wash for contact wearers, or plain saline nasal spray for stuffy noses. ask your wife.

Rinse any debris off with the saline then coat it with honey, antibiotic ointment, veterycin spray gel. (Its expensive but I love that stuff)
Henny says sugar.
@21hens-incharge do you use the sugar coarse ? Wouldn’t it be so scratchy or does their body temp melt it? Or do you mix or dilute it with something?


Molpet said:
my turkey hen attacked .. middle of the week she took offense to a one week old chick and thrusted her head through 2x4 wire door and yanked the chick through and shook it like a dog with a rat. I opened the door and grabbed her by the neck and made her drop it... it didn't survive... she is now blocked off by chicken wire in the end of the coop.. she is not very happy. Hopefully she will calm down in a week or so.

she was fine with chicks and poults coming by when she was sitting.. but she sure is a she devil now.. I thought about taking the poults away from her and giving them to a broody chicken, but figured she would try to take them back or steals some from another
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dang! That’s a scary girl!
 
Molpet said:
my turkey hen attacked .. middle of the week she took offense to a one week old chick and thrusted her head through 2x4 wire door and yanked the chick through and shook it like a dog with a rat. I opened the door and grabbed her by the neck and made her drop it... it didn't survive... she is now blocked off by chicken wire in the end of the coop.. she is not very happy. Hopefully she will calm down in a week or so.

she was fine with chicks and poults coming by when she was sitting.. but she sure is a she devil now.. I thought about taking the poults away from her and giving them to a broody chicken, but figured she would try to take them back or steals some from another
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Poor baby. :hugs
 
staceyj said:
No! No flour.

If it needs cleaning, just be ever so gentle. No peroxide or alcohol.

Do you have any saline?
Like eye wash for contact wearers, or plain saline nasal spray for stuffy noses. ask your wife.

Rinse any debris off with the saline then coat it with honey, antibiotic ointment, veterycin spray gel. (Its expensive but I love that stuff)
Henny says sugar.
@21hens-incharge do you use the sugar coarse ? Wouldn’t it be so scratchy or does their body temp melt it? Or do you mix or dilute it with something?



dang! That’s a scary girl!
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I haven't had need to use any wound dressing on birds thank goodness.
I have read about the sugar and honey on here.

FNF is certainly more experienced than I ever want to be in this regard.
 
staceyj said:
This is great to know but now I have another question.

Will the sugar draw ants or flies to the injured chick?
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I did not have that problem as I kept my hens wound covered.
I used sugar due to the location. I was affraid it would melt with her body heat and run off. The sugar dries a bit. Kind of like when you bake it on top of a muffin.
Honey dressings are a bit different. The dressing itself is soaked in honey then applied.
 
If you're treating a de-gloving wound, you really need to keep the animal inside if possible. Outside there is too much that can get in to it, like dirt, flies, other bacteria. Inside you have more control over the environment.

So, after 4 hrs of work, the door has been properly hung. Vice grips and a lot of patience, a dull chisel to get the difficult screws going the right direction, finding the right combination of things to get it the right height while keeping it level, finding the right branches to shim one party of the frame with, filing the door so it closes around the bolts, sawing the branches after getting them in place and tightening screws, loosening and tightening the screws so they're just right, and opening and closing, locking and unlocking until its just right. Good grief, it was easier to put in the other way. Sad thing is, it would have been just as difficult if I had put it in this way in the first place. The other thing that doesn't help is that the door had an outward curve in the middle, so I had to shim the door frame in the middle so it would lock decently. What a pain in the tater, but hey, the worst is over, just a small adjustment to the top bar of the frame, then seal and eventually add trim to the outside so it looks decent, and so people can't pop the shims out and break in, though they would still have to go through the main door, the teeth and the lead to actually steal anything. Yay for inheriting my dad's mechanical abilities (to an extent), his ingenuity, and for having the patience/persistence to get it done.
 

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