SunshineMary
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Our Pilgrim gander, Uncle Waldo, is like an insatiably curious toddler and gets into EVERYTHING. Well, he just had to figure out why the apple tree saplings had chicken wire around them, so he stuck his big beak into the fencing and cut it badly:
Our vet cleaned it and closed the wound with surgical glue, but as the skin dried out, the wound opened up:
Our vet then had us start cleaning it with iodine and coating it with a little silver sulfadiazine cream, and the wound then began to heal incredibly quickly. Look how much better in just one week (his beak is dirty because he was rooting in the mud right before I snapped the picture, but you can see how much it has healed):
Just thought I'd share that tip; silver sulfadiazine works great to heal injured beaks!
Our vet cleaned it and closed the wound with surgical glue, but as the skin dried out, the wound opened up:
Our vet then had us start cleaning it with iodine and coating it with a little silver sulfadiazine cream, and the wound then began to heal incredibly quickly. Look how much better in just one week (his beak is dirty because he was rooting in the mud right before I snapped the picture, but you can see how much it has healed):
Just thought I'd share that tip; silver sulfadiazine works great to heal injured beaks!
