Suggestions? URGENT

One thing I have learned about chicken injuries is that as little intervention as you can get away with is often better than over-doing it and risking compounding a problem.
This is very helpful, thank you for posting. I have her running around a few hours during the day, to socialize with humans before putting her back in the hospital enclosure, next to the others.

Question: could you please expand on 'little intervention' because I feel like 'little intervention' not definitive. I'm all ears! (or eyes I guess). Please and Thank you. I just want to do right by her.
 
Question: could you please expand on 'little intervention' because I feel like 'little intervention' not definitive
It’s totally not definitive lol. To me it means doing as little as you can get away with. Like the bare minimum if possible. For example…my “learned the hard way” lesson: I had a cream legbar pullet I was integrating in a see-no-touch situation (wire dog kennel next to the run). Something reached through the wire and put a deep gash in ther chest. I freaked out, took a not even visibly upset chicken and bathed it, cut the feathers, slathered something on it, wrapped the wound 🤦‍♀️ and put her in a dog kennel in my house. She was dead within hours. Now…a more experienced person might not have done ALL those things. Now I would probably just rinse the wound with saline, made sure nothing could reach into the kennel and maybe given some electrolytes. I was emotional and panicky and I believe it cost my pullet her life. Since then I try to walk a fine line between hands-off and necessary intervention.

There is always great wound care advice here and I would certainly take it from certain experts but I would also judge a chicken’s condition more by behavior than by my own emotional state when looking at an issue. Not saying you’re being overly-emotional just saying sometimes a thing looks scarier than it is and chickens are more resilient and adaptable (often) than we give them credit for. I don’t know if that helps?
 

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