PLEASE HELP! Injured Hen

[SwampQueenChick]

One of my kids came in from the run with one of my favorite hens. Her beak is slightly crooked (new today not scissor beak). Her jaw is extremely swollen and ear lobe purple around edge. Is this dislocated or broken jaw? Has anyone ever treated a chicken with dislocated jaw and them survive? She is still moving her bottom beak. Advice please.View attachment 3296496

Poor Baby If you feed her with syringe make sure she doesn't aspirate. I just found out recently ( when I had a sick chick ) that their throat anatomy is a little different than I thought.

This link was sent to me by @Wyorp Rock on syringing fluids on one of my posts when my baby was sick
https://www.backyardchickens.com/ar...dications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/

Also this link was sent to me as well by @Wyorp Rock on torpedo feeding
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...eeding-what-is-it-and-when-to-use-it.1532744/

Both links were very helpful to me and I wanted to pass info along. Hope you sweetie gets better.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

she did not eat the wet food but swallowed drops of water
she may have had a door close on her, but I don't know

I'd work on hydration, then offer the wet soupy feed.
As suggested, you may have to syringe or tube feed her, but hopefully she'll be able to gingerly eat on her own in the morning.

 

[hotpotato3]

Update: we ended up taking her to the vet. She did have a broken jaw. It had to be from some type of acute injury. Unfortunately, there isn’t anything that can be done to treat it and she had to be put down

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Update: we ended up taking her to the vet. She did have a broken jaw. It had to be from some type of acute injury. Unfortunately, there isn’t anything that can be done to treat it and she had to be put down

I'm sorry to hear this

 

[Tookie]

Update: we ended up taking her to the vet. She did have a broken jaw. It had to be from some type of acute injury. Unfortunately, there isn’t anything that can be done to treat it and she had to be put down

I did not get a notification when you posted for some reason, I just saw this.
I'm so sorry she had to be put down.