Rcornerranch
Songster
Sadie’s head is swollen. She has no eye or sinus discharge. Breathing is normal. It’s especially swollen on her left side. Her eyelid is stretched with the swelling. She can still blink. Her snood is also very swollen and is usually a very small size. Today it’s sticking right out. The area at the corner of her mouth looks very swollen, too. I can’t find any punctures. You can see she IS missing a chunk of feathers in this photo a bit above her wing area. I couldn’t find any damage to the skin. She is acting ok. I’m hoping it isn’t a snake bite! Horsefly bite or got stung by something maybe? Is there anything I can do for her? While looking her over I did find two abscesses, with that earwax-like puss birds get, from when she was attacked on her nest two months ago. I thought they were like large pimples where her tail feathers were plucked out during the fight. But they are a little deeper than that. I tried to get a lot of the waxy stuff out and flushed it with hydrogen peroxide. I could tell she’d had enough. I put her back in her pen with the Tom. Anything else I can do for the abscessed areas?