turkey attacked *graphic photo added*

[Fundychic]

I would go with antibiotics, isolate the bird, keep the wound clean, and make sure it gets water, electrolytes with vitamins would be good. Oh, and garlic! Will help fight the infection. That's what I used to help heal my injured chicken along with all other kinds of remedies.

 

[Lorije1]

can't see the photos so take this as someone 'shooting blind' and use what can work.

Use clean distilled water from the store and / or diluted betadine or povadine to keep the wound washed out. After cleaning the wound thoroughly, you can either pack it full of neosporin without pain reliever or, if you can monitor for ants etc, mix sugar and betadine ointment into a paste (or just use raw honey). You can use the regular betadine /povadine liquid, it is just harder to make a paste. Change the dressing 2x a day. For the overnight wrapping I would use antibiotic ointment or cream instead of the honey / sugar. After 3-5 days start leaving it open to air, but of course watch for flies and still clean/ dress at night .

You can probably get injectable penicillin and syringes from your feed store or even a local pharmacy, tell them you need livestock penicillin. The dose is about .2 cc / 6lbs and you will need small needles to inject (23gauge is about the smallest that will pass penicillin, but depending on the size of the turkey you could probably do a 20-22 fine,( take a look at the length / bore and decide based on the bird).

Yogurt w/ vitamin B complex smashed up in it, eggs, hi-protein, hi-fat content foods to keep the weight up. You can buy vitamins / electrolytes for the water, but don't use any with vit b in them if you are giving B complex.


ETA - again, I am not able to see the photos, but green can also be bruising

 

[b.hromada]

Poor baby is right.

I hope he heals up well.

 

[chkn]

You can put SWAT on to get rid of the maggots.

 

[Cetawin]

Yes cleaning the wound and ridding it of maggots was best. I would apply triple antibiotic ointment, bandage and allow to drain. I would also give penicillin injections. You can get it at the feed store usually. Keep it cleaned and rinsed with a sterile saline or betadine, apply the ointment and fresh bandages and let it heal...but by all means get the penicillin...there is a lot of bacteria from an animal bite.

 

[DaniLovesChickens]

I agree - penicillin, flush wound with saline, neosporin, lightly bandage, keep flies away (

), feed carefully and thoughtfully. SWAT if it will be outside where it would be exposed to flies.

Good luck!!

Poor, poor thing.

I'm so glad he was found though. That is quite a miracle in and of itself!!

 

[NoSkiveez]

Unfortunately, the Turkey didn't make it thru the night.

 

[DaniLovesChickens]

So sorry! At least the poor thing was able to die at home rather than in the woods.

 

[fourfeathers]

Hi, Didn't have time right now to read all the posts, but here is what I just dealt with and it is similar....
Had a wound as severe if not more that went a couple days before I noticed it. She was acting fine until 2 days post injury and I noticed her standing by the fence and not ranging. Wound on her abdomen so didn't notice until I picked her up and fluid drained all over me and maggots, too. Worst wound I have Ever dealt with, Ever. Called the only poultry vet in the area and he wasn't available, but consulted via phone and then took her in 3 days later.
What I did: I flushed the wound for an hour under a sink nozzle with a dilute ivory soap mixture also in a syringe. Picked out all the maggots and flushed again the next day, and the next until got every last one. The second two times, I only found 3-4 maggots, but you don't even want to leave 1 in there. You have got to get them ALL out. Trimmed away feathers to help keep wound clean.
Packed the wound with furazone per my vet's instructions for a week and flushed/debrided twice a day with packing afterward. Kept her INDOORS in a large 3' dog crate with puppy pads....messy but have to keep away from flies or will just reinfect.
After a week, I still debribed under faucet for 5 min at a time, then packed with bag balm 1-2x a day. Week 3: debribe 1x a day and pack with bagbalm. Antibiotics I used were cephalexin diluted in water 250 mg twice a day for 2 weeks. Now am doing probiotics because of diarrhea from trauma and antibiotics I assume. (had her fecal checked at vet and no worms or coccidia so probably gut flora all messed up still). Anyway, on week 4 now (sigh) and wound looking good. Went from a 5" x 3" Hole down to the muscle and further to a 3" x 2" with new tissue formed. We are getting there, but is a slow process. She is a RIR about 3 yrs old. Still in the house, sigh again.

 

[fourfeathers]

Sorry, just read the latest post. But, maybe what I went through will help the next person with a severe wound. Oh, my vet recommended amoxycillin but I had the cephalexin on hand and he said that was fine.