Silkie thread!

[jonsccm]

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Unfortunately this is quite common , I have had one get string tied round one leg , since then the string from top of feed bags goes in my pocket.
You can wash down with peroxide but only in the initial treatment. It's not recommended that you use after that as it can retard the healing process.
I use Terramycin (pink eye ) antibiotic spray on all open wounds. A triple antibiotic cream or vetericyne spray will also do the trick.

I use Neosporin on most wounds but with chickens don't use the kind with pain reliever in it. I've been told that it's toxic for them, altho I have done it by mistake. If there is no swelling or apparent pain then us normally they don't need any thing.

 

[Sylviaanne]

Unfortunately this is quite common , I have had one get string tied round one leg , since then the string from top of feed bags goes in my pocket.
You can wash down with peroxide but only in the initial treatment. It's not recommended that you use after that as it can retard the healing process.
I use Terramycin (pink eye ) antibiotic spray on all open wounds. A triple antibiotic cream or vetericyne spray will also do the trick.

Thank you. I have triple antibiotic on hand.

 

[Sylviaanne]

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I use Neosporin on most wounds but with chickens don't use the kind with pain reliever in it. I've been told that it's toxic for them, altho I have done it by mistake. If there is no swelling or apparent pain then us normally they don't need any thing.

It is swollen and it did bleed a little when I pulled the scab off but she didn't act like she was in any pain until I reached into the wound with the tweezers to get a grip on the rubber band. She acted fine afterward and she seems to be ok now. I just checked on her.

 

[Fancychooklady]

It is swollen and it did bleed a little when I pulled the scab off but she didn't act like she was in any pain until I reached into the wound with the tweezers to get a grip on the rubber band. She acted fine afterward and she seems to be ok now. I just checked on her.

Just keep it as clean as possible and apply the cream once a day .

 

[jonsccm]

For a more natural way I had a rooster get his leg caught in some bushes. The next day his leg swelled up three times as big as the other one and I tried everything! Neosporin did not work, ice did not work,I thought that he was going to lose the leg.then I tried one more thing, I took comfrey leaves made a poultice and wrapped the poultice with gauzeand the next day almost the swelling was gone. A few months later he is walking around and you would never know he had trouble

 

[RockerHen]

Cute chick that hatched out in mid August, I let my broody sit one egg and this adorable baby has grown from it.

This is the biological mother to the chick, she has distinctively large eggs for a silkie. The broody that actually hatched it is half silkie.

She's the brown little hen. She is one of my best broodies, and has raised many turkey poults already for me this year. This has led to the turkeys being quite infatuated with her and the other silkies as they've grown. Even though they all live with other turkeys now, whenever I let them out, they run straight to where the silkies are and strut all around them.

 

[Going Quackers]

Cute chick that hatched out in mid August, I let my broody sit one egg and this adorable baby has grown from it.

This is the biological mother to the chick, she has distinctively large eggs for a silkie. The broody that actually hatched it is half silkie.

She's the brown little hen. She is one of my best broodies, and has raised many turkey poults already for me this year. This has led to the turkeys being quite infatuated with her and the other silkies as they've grown. Even though they all live with other turkeys now, whenever I let them out, they run straight to where the silkies are and strut all around them.

very cute pics! love the turkey's makes the silkies look sooooo small.

 

[kabhyper1]

My Lily is a year old this week and finally laid her first egg today! Slow poke!

 

[nayeli]

My Lily is a year old this week and finally laid her first egg today! Slow poke!

Jeez! I hope mine don't take that long! Is she an inside chicken... that could explain why..

 

[kabhyper1]

Jeez! I hope mine don't take that long! Is she an inside chicken... that could explain why..

She actually is an outside chicken, but got a respiratory infection earlier this year so she stayed inside for a little bit. She is now inside as a companion to my blind hen and thats how I knew she layed the egg today lol. She is the sweetest little nugget. She likes BYC too.