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[Chickenfan4life]

I was also at the Blanchard auction. Picked up a pair of the Cochin and a black silkie ,after I got back to my seat with the silkie found out that it had some type of twine around its feet so bad that it has lost one of its toes and, may lose another one. Need some advice on how to treat this????

Oh my word! And the person you bought him from didn't know?

Poor silkie. I have no advice.

Good luck, though!

 

[Chickenfan4life]

We don't yet but lookinh at getting some registered alpines sometime this year.

I'm thinking not bumble, too. Here are her feet. She's loving her spa soak!

If there was a pic attached, I don't see it.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I was also at the Blanchard auction. Picked up a pair of the Cochin and a black silkie ,after I got back to my seat with the silkie found out that it had some type of twine around its feet so bad that it has lost one of its toes and, may lose another one. Need some advice on how to treat this????

Yikes- remove the twine obviously, and make a betadine-sugar paste to bandage around it, or Veterycin if you have it. Keep it moist and covered and watch for secondary infection.

If there was a pic attached, I don't see it.

It wouldn't attach from my phone or my tablet- had to load it to dropbox and hop on the computer. Check the post again.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Hotcurler you can just forward the email to me and the document should travel along. Chicken [email protected]

Oh this hen is cracking me up soaking on the dining room table. I will upload a picture later. But the soak is definitely doing her good, I put a cup of water in front of her and she is drinking on her own for the first time since I brought her in yesterday.

 

[Chickenfan4life]

Hotcurler you can just forward the email to me and the document should travel along. Chicken [email protected]

Oh this hen is cracking me up soaking on the dining room table. I will upload a picture later. But the soak is definitely doing her good, I put a cup of water in front of her and she is drinking on her own for the first time since I brought her in yesterday.

Please do, she sounds so funny!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Mystery solved! Here she is at the "chicken spa" including scrambled egg yolk and medicated water at hand. She wouldn't eat but drank several tablespoons after she had soaked for about 15 minutes. I let her soak until the water started to cool, about 30 minutes total. She had her eyes closed for much of the time and was totally RELAXED.



Once I dried her off the soak had reduced the swelling enough to see this:


It looks like a puncture wound between her toes, from the TOP. Not sure how she could have done that. Poor girl, wish I had checked her over good when I first noticed her acting strange last week but it was TOO COLD and I didn't WANT to. Shame on me. Hopefully I caught it in time. I sprayed with Veterycin, packed with triple antibiotic cream, and poured some betadine on the bandage too. Amoxicillian is supposed to be here Saturday so she'll stay on Tetracycline until then. If that does the trick I may not need to do the Amox at all but I'm guessing it will need the stronger med.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Oye what a day, after cleaning up from the chicken had to deal with this:






Poor baby tripped on a rug with a plastic container of snacks in her hand. Luckily the two cuts are small, at first I thought I was headed to the ER with the amount of blood that was pouring out!

 

[hotcurltr]

@hotcurltr where would one get fish amoxicillin?

I got mine at Petco. I assumed petsmart would have it too, but I saw your post. Do you have a vet for your dogs cats, or whatother livestock you have? My vet is usually good about selling me what I need for the chickens. I haven't asked for anything like narcotics so he and she have been fine . In Colorado Walmart sells fish and carries it. I don't know a Walmart around here that sells fish.

Hotcurler you can just forward the email to me and the document should travel along. Chicken [email protected]

Oh this hen is cracking me up soaking on the dining room table. I will upload a picture later. But the soak is definitely doing her good, I put a cup of water in front of her and she is drinking on her own for the first time since I brought her in yesterday.

I will forward itto you now. Love the pics of your girl. Mine are all pretty tame about coming up for treats and eating them out of my hand, but only a few let me pick them up so we usually catch them on the roost unless it's something that needs to be treted asap and then we catch them. huff puff LOL

 

[Chickenfan4life]

Mystery solved! Here she is at the "chicken spa" including scrambled egg yolk and medicated water at hand. She wouldn't eat but drank several tablespoons after she had soaked for about 15 minutes. I let her soak until the water started to cool, about 30 minutes total. She had her eyes closed for much of the time and was totally RELAXED.



Once I dried her off the soak had reduced the swelling enough to see this:


It looks like a puncture wound between her toes, from the TOP. Not sure how she could have done that. Poor girl, wish I had checked her over good when I first noticed her acting strange last week but it was TOO COLD and I didn't WANT to. Shame on me. Hopefully I caught it in time. I sprayed with Veterycin, packed with triple antibiotic cream, and poured some betadine on the bandage too. Amoxicillian is supposed to be here Saturday so she'll stay on Tetracycline until then. If that does the trick I may not need to do the Amox at all but I'm guessing it will need the stronger med.

Oye what a day, after cleaning up from the chicken had to deal with this:






Poor baby tripped on a rug with a plastic container of snacks in her hand. Luckily the two cuts are small, at first I thought I was headed to the ER with the amount of blood that was pouring out!

I'm glad you found out what was up with the hen! Hopefully she will make a good recovery! And, aw, hope your little girl is okay!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I got mine at Petco. I assumed petsmart would have it too, but I saw your post. Do you have a vet for your dogs cats, or whatother livestock you have? My vet is usually good about selling me what I need for the chickens. I haven't asked for anything like narcotics so he and she have been fine . In Colorado Walmart sells fish and carries it. I don't know a Walmart around here that sells fish.

I will forward itto you now. Love the pics of your girl. Mine are all pretty tame about coming up for treats and eating them out of my hand, but only a few let me pick them up so we usually catch them on the roost unless it's something that needs to be treted asap and then we catch them. huff puff LOL

Thanks, got the e-mail. I checked at WalMart in Coweta, but they only sell some fish supplies not fish; maybe that's why they didn't have the Amoxicillian. I could try calling the vet... the one I know would help me out is way up in Tulsa and I've already ordered the Amox online so I think I'm just going to wait this time.

I'm glad you found out what was up with the hen! Hopefully she will make a good recovery! And, aw, hope your little girl is okay!

She'll be fine, sugar stopped the bleeding and then she wanted snuggle time and fell asleep on my lap.