skinned alive -update 18/4/2011 the update we didnt want :(

[motoclown]

I've been following this thread and so sad for your loss.

 

[noodleroo]

I'm so sorry. I thought for sure this story was going to have a happy ending. You did all you could; sometimes things just don't work out like we want them to...

 

[ms.cluckling]

so sorry for your loss
at least you tried. it's better, i think, that you DIDNT cull her, this way she had a chance.
I'm sorry, but I hope that if (God forbid) this happens in the future, you will know how to help the chicken.

 

[Silkie Sue]

this is not the ending we expected.... Holly had more friends than she ever knew rooting for her, I'm sorry we lost her..... thankyou for being her mama and doing all you could to make her loved

 

[ChicksterJo]

I'm very sad and sorry for your loss. She was a fighter...

 

[cocosandy]

Such a sad story...Im sorry for your loss.
I had a Japanese bantam girl with almost the exact same injury except it also went down her back. She looked like a package of chicken from the grocery store and was in serious shock and the like...
I flushed her wounds with saline and put bactine all over her, and I spent hours sewing her up with thin plastic thread...The hardest part was that there was much muck and dirt inside her skin and I was afraid for infection from that.
I just flushed and sewed and flushed and sewed until she was completely closed up...injected her with some Tylan 50 and put her in a warm hospital tank...and by morning when I cane down, she was perched on the side of the tank!
It took her a long time to get better but now, a year or so later, she is out there running aorund with her kids and she is none the worse for wear except for some missing feathers along the huge scar that wraps across her head, down her neck and then down her back.
She is a strong and serious little bird and she perches in the main barn with the big hens and roos...no bantam barn for her!!
I just wanted you all to know that if this happens to you, its probably best, if you catch it right away, to flush alot, bactine for pain and antiseptic, and sew it up with plastic thread.
and injectable antibiotics are preferable in my experience....
again...sounds like your girl had great care and she tried hard....those respiratory things look for the stress and weakened birds...
Ive had problems in my flock with respiratory and in many ways, Id prefer to deal with something straightforward like a skinned bird, than all of these terrible CRD mycoplasmas and such!

 

[Caat]

so sorry

 

[JoePa]

- I'm sorry that this dear lady's chicken died after all the work and worry she put into trying to safe it - I'm sorry - now please don't be too hard on me since I'm new to this whole chicken thing - but after reading this entire post I'm have difficultly rationalizing why one puts themsleves and the chicken through so much work, worry [pain and stress when a chicken is critically injured - my first inclination, when I found the injured chicken , would have been to plan a chicken dinner - after all it is just a chicken - am I missing something? - is it the motherly instinct that some women have? or what? - thanks

 

[definetlydeb]

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Yep.... I believe you are missing something...

(you asked!!)) THEY ARE NOT JUST CHICKENS!!! Ask and you shall see!!!! Good luck to you, don't mean to sound harsh, but to many of us...THEY ARE NOT JUST CHICKENS!!! That is why so many take every step possible to save them....

So sorry to hear that she passed...

to you and your efforts to save her!!!!

 

[schellie69]

so sorry for your loss, I was hoping Holly would make a full recovery. I know that you did all that you could for her.