OUUUCH! Now What? ***GROSS PIC WARNING***

[lacyloo]

wow thats a naste gash

 

[dlhunicorn]

you have a pm

 

[brandigirl]

Speaking of peroxide...I have a friend that had a cut on her arm and thought the best thing to do was to clean it everyday with peroxide. Long story short...the cut is now a serious situation and she has little use of her arm. Home health goes to her house everyday to repack the wound. I was not aware of the affects of peroxide until this happened to my friend. We always cleaned our cuts that way...but then we didn't continue using it either. Guess that made the difference.

 

[Brian]

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That's if you apply it more than once. I use it on myself, followed by a water rinse.

If you can't suture it, try crazy glue.

One way or another, it has to be closed, and it has to be keep smothered in antibiotic ointment until healed.

Brian

 

[d.k]

* I only had one wound 'go bad' with hydrogen peroxide--- Turned out it was a spider bite, very acidic to start with & the peroxide was 'feeding' the venom sorta. Plus there was a fang still in it. YIKES!!

 

[amystours]

YIKES is right!!!!! OMG!!! Spiders don't really wig me out, but I just don't want them "on" me. I'll brush them off, but always have to check to make sure they didn't leave a dragline to "reattach" to me!

Best of luck with your baby, hopefully by now, you've taken care of it for her.

 

[adoptedbyachicken]

That looks too clean sided a cut to be from another critter, I think your right it's a wire cut. Hydrogen peroxide is never used in deep wounds, and the poster is right that said it's not much recommended anymore.

I have not had great success with the glue idea and so I have turned to suturing those type of wounds. You can order in dissolving sutures from jefferslivestock.com to have on hand if you want, or get some expired from your dentist or doctor. That will not help you today, but an idea for the future if your willing to do suturing.

Leaving the bottom open to drain would be good. Baby aspirin can be given twice a day to help with pain.

 

[Shelanie]

I left for work and had her isolated. By the time I got back from working a 24 hour shift and looked it was scabbed over and glueing it would have been worthless. I ended up using Blu-Kote and Rooster Booster and she is already back out with the rest of the chickens. The blue in the blu-kote hides her wound well and the Rooster Booster has been great at keeping the others from picking. What ever is in that stuff is great! She is on antibiotics and seems to be doing well. I have really been watching her to make sure they aren't picking at her.

On a side note I have been flushing her wound with lactated ringers IV solution and it works great.

 

[FarmerDenise]

I keep saline solution on hand for flushing out wounds and use Iodine or Betadine diluted with water so it looks like tea for repeat flushings.
I found a great way to administer medication to a single chicken is to slice a grape or blueberry part way and insert the medicine in it. I crushed the aspirin first to make it into a powder. My rooster gobbles the whole thing up and I know he got all the medicine.

 

[d.k]

*The part I can't imagine is getting a critter to hold still long enough to be stitched!!!!!!! Chook's comb probably ought to have had a stitch or 2, but I had a tough enough time just getting it washed & medicated every day. Wish I'd thought about superglue, but I can't imagine getting her to hold still for that either. . . .