Here's a quote from Chicken Health for Dummies below on the aspirin. But if they aren't drinking this won't be of use.
@galefrances
Do you have any NuStock? That stuff stinks but it seems to help healing proceed very quickly and helps prevent infection. Not sure if I'd use it based on your description or not...but I did use it once on a bird that had been hawk attacked and had the back of her neck ripped pretty bad. The bad thing about it is that you can't see the condition of the wound since it has the ointment on it. The good thing is that it seems to work well and quickly. That hawk-attacked hen survived and is alive today, 2 years later, as a pet in a young lady's pet flock a couple hours south of me.
I have also used the gel version of Vetericyn to put into wounds. It's clear and you can see through it.
But, seriously, I don't like doing a lot with wounds besides being sure they're clean and doing for them what I'd do for myself. As @oldhenlikesdogs was saying, that girl I had that was attacked was in "starring into space" mode for a couple days, then perked up with time and is quite normal today. If it had gone on for more than 3-4 days in malaise I may have had to make a different decision.
@galefrances
Do you have any NuStock? That stuff stinks but it seems to help healing proceed very quickly and helps prevent infection. Not sure if I'd use it based on your description or not...but I did use it once on a bird that had been hawk attacked and had the back of her neck ripped pretty bad. The bad thing about it is that you can't see the condition of the wound since it has the ointment on it. The good thing is that it seems to work well and quickly. That hawk-attacked hen survived and is alive today, 2 years later, as a pet in a young lady's pet flock a couple hours south of me.
I have also used the gel version of Vetericyn to put into wounds. It's clear and you can see through it.
But, seriously, I don't like doing a lot with wounds besides being sure they're clean and doing for them what I'd do for myself. As @oldhenlikesdogs was saying, that girl I had that was attacked was in "starring into space" mode for a couple days, then perked up with time and is quite normal today. If it had gone on for more than 3-4 days in malaise I may have had to make a different decision.