Severely Wounded Chick

[njh64us]

The owner of the dog was very concerned. Felt really bad about it. But we had a discussion with him about letting us know if he was going to have his dogs running around. I live in an area where people come for the weekend and don't live here all the time so he just forgot about it I think. Open the door and let the dogs out before even thinking about whether or not the chickens might be out.

This morning she's doing pretty good I hear very little of that nasal wheeze but I'm going to try to find some kind of anabiotic today. She's in the peck and play now getting some sunshine and eating a little grass.

I'm going to post a picture of her back this morning it is bad looking but it's covered in blue kote. I've been looking at the edges and it's got a large scab around the edge of the wound.

You can see there's not enough skin to stitch anything together.

Thank you guys and hope everyone has a good day.

 

[njh64us]

So this is how it looked this morning. I was able to debride it a bit around the edges and anywhere that looked like it was totally dead and ready to come off. Also able to get some of the debris out of the center that I'd been unable to remove earlier. Skin beneath looks healthy. Still no sign of infection and the nasal wheeze was barely a whisper this morning. Going to try the antibiotics again.

As for the neighbor, he was very sorry. We'd talked to him about the chicks a couple of weeks earlier, but we live in a neighborhood where folks don't live there all the time so when he came in for the day, he just let the dogs out like usual without thinking about the chickens. I've only had them since March. Anyway, he knows now.

Thanks for all the help and well-wishes, pictures, etc. Helps to know others have survived. nj

 

[njh64us]

Wow, just saw my post from this morning. It disappeared so I thought it didn't post and did it again. Anyway, I hadn't cleaned up the wound at that point so I'll try to show another picture tomorrow. By the way, does anyone know how to get blue-kote off the hands? I've tried everything from acetone to gasoline. Crazy!!

 

[missnu01]

Last year I walked outside and noticed one of my hens had a little blood line near her tail and she looked a little droopy so I grabbed her up began inspecting for the wound and when I lifted up on her tail her whole back skin lifted up. Like a flap of feathers and skin. Like something had grabbed her tail and jerked upwards to her head sort of trying to skin her. I won't lie, I was freaked out and just left her be... you can't even tell anything so terrible had happened to her now. Everything healed back up and I never did anything. Chickens can sometimes survive some pretty gruesome attacks.

 

[njh64us]

Amazing! Good to know.

She does seem to be pretty hearty considering what she's been through. Thanks, nj

 

[TwoCrows]

Wow, just saw my post from this morning. It disappeared so I thought it didn't post and did it again. Anyway, I hadn't cleaned up the wound at that point so I'll try to show another picture tomorrow. By the way, does anyone know how to get blue-kote off the hands? I've tried everything from acetone to gasoline. Crazy!!

You can use start with w-d 40 on the hands and then move onto that stuff in the orange bottle....has grit in it. (wish I could think of the name and I can't find my bottle right now!

) I think it is called Orange Clean, or something like this. Use a scotch brite scrubby on it at the same time and it gets most of the blu-kote off your hands. Gotta wear those gloves!!

 

[TwoCrows]

So this is how it looked this morning. I was able to debride it a bit around the edges and anywhere that looked like it was totally dead and ready to come off. Also able to get some of the debris out of the center that I'd been unable to remove earlier. Skin beneath looks healthy. Still no sign of infection and the nasal wheeze was barely a whisper this morning. Going to try the antibiotics again.

As for the neighbor, he was very sorry. We'd talked to him about the chicks a couple of weeks earlier, but we live in a neighborhood where folks don't live there all the time so when he came in for the day, he just let the dogs out like usual without thinking about the chickens. I've only had them since March. Anyway, he knows now.

Thanks for all the help and well-wishes, pictures, etc. Helps to know others have survived. nj

I hope she is going to pull thru.

 

[njh64us]

So here's my girl now. She's been on Durmycin for about six days because of a wheeze, but that's cleared up and the wound is about half the size it was. The top of the hip bone that could be seen before has new skin on it. She's walking pretty good and starting to fly up on things under the carport, but even when we try to get her back with the flock, she's not interested. She prefers to be with Max and will go right to him when we let her out. Need to know how much longer to keep her on the Durmycin and do I ween her off it or just stop it? Thanks, N