Hi there, just wondering if any members on here may give me more suggestions as of what to do. One of my white crested Polish was being attacked by a hawk yesterday and as I ran out, the hawk flew away and left her on the ground. I thought she was just in shock so I just put her in the coop because it seemed like she was really quiet and I didn’t see anything on her, just a little bit of blood coming out of one nostrilI waited till this morning to look her over and she has a huge hole in her chest and the reason I didn’t see it was because all the feathers were pushed into it, about 2 inches or more. I cleaned her up and washed out the wound which seemed a little oozy by this time , so hopefully it doesn’t get infected! I have so far washed her with Hiba cleanse and then flush the wound with an amoxicillin and a water concoction that I made. I had to cut all the feathers away from the wound. I am planning to stitch her up this afternoon as long as it doesn’t appear to be getting infected. I have given her some electrolyte water and she has eaten meal worms out of my hand. The wound is about an inch or more deep and cuts through her breast meat and may be a inch and a half long. I am going to stitch her up with dissolvable stitches, only surfacelly, but don’t know what else I can do. I have also started her on a round of antibiotics. I only have amoxicillin and penicillin, does anyone know which one is better for deep wounds? I am not sure if the wound is deeper than that but that’s what it appears to look like to me.
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