Update: HAPPY ENDING! - Friday 13th - One dead, one injured.

[Wolfpacker]

"Chicken Matthews," as they write on her vet records and Rxs, is home from the vet. Eggcetera is correct; you can't really tell she doesn't have a wing. They were able to leave a stump. She is up already, eating and drinking and seems perfectly normal. She goes back to the vet Friday at 11:30.

Again, thanks for everyone's concern and advice. I'll keep you posted.

 

[eggcetra_farms]

I'm so glad she's doing well! Glad they could leave the stump too. Her feathers should probably grow over the bone, and you'll never see it. That's how Kitty Cat's are. They just grow curved over the bone and cover it right up. Don't let her around the other chickens till it's COMPLETELY healed though. I thought, oh I bet Kitty Cat's missing the other chickens. I'll just take her over for a couple minutes to say hi. BIG mistake! They swarmed her and started pulling at her gauze... I had to take her in and rewrap her (which was not easy to do). I'm sure you know better, just pointing out my mistake there.

 

[Wolfpacker]

She is quarantined in the guest bathroom and will remain there indefinitely. Hope we don' have guests anytime soon!

 

[eggcetra_farms]

Hey Wolf,

How's she today? Oh, and how are you? lol Did you finally get some rest?

 

[Wolfpacker]

She was doing well this morning. Can't really see where the wing was because they have what I assume is a self-sticking adhesive gauze made especially for birds on it. I thought she would be bandaged in some sort of wrap, but it looks like she just wearing a bandage. The feathers hang down over it and you can barely see it. And you're correct, most people would probably not even notice she doesn't have but one wing. She ate some oatmeal this AM, but not quite as voraciously as she's done in the past. I'm sure all of this has been extremely stressful to her and I'm really surprised she's done as well as she has. And she probably misses her sisters. We'll know for sure how she's doing when I take her in tomorrow to be examined.

I slept like a log last night straight through from 11 to 6:30.

Thanks!

 

[Wolfpacker]

Went home at lunch to change her paper. She jumped up on the side of her hospital room/storage container, perched there, and looked at me as if to say, "Hey, lemme outta this joint!"

 

[eggcetra_farms]

I guess she's feeling cooped up! lol Ah....chicken humor.

Glad to hear she's feeling well enough to jump around. What does the wife think?

Oh, and out of curiousity - which wing was it? For some reason I keep thinking the right one, but that may be because Kitty Cat's was the right one. If you said, I don't remember. I'm also curious to see a picture of the little one.

 

[Wolfpacker]

It IS the right wing. You win the prize!

We still live in the stone age - no digital camera.

When I checked on her this PM and gave her her antibiotic, I felt badly for her because she seemed lonely, so I brought her in here to my office and let her walk around. I sat on the floor with her and gave her some oatmeal and, after a few minutes of being skittish, she finally jumped up on my hand and let me hold her in my lap.

I'm sure her last few experiences with humans, most of which probably caused her at least some pain, is making her skittish. And I'm sure she probably doesn't feel that well either.

My wife is fine with all this and helped me give her the pill. But I'll never tell her about the situation confronting me night before last.

BTW - It's easier giving a chicken a pill than one might imagine!

 

[eggcetra_farms]

Chickens will eat just about ANYTHING, so I would think it could be easy. Dogs......not so much. I know when I was little and my mom would try to give the dogs their heartworm pill or whatever it was and she'd wrap it in cheese. The dogs got smart and would eat the cheese and you'd find the little pill on the floor. Ha ha... I don't know how they were able to do that.

 

[barg]

I took this quote from a responce you gave in another persons thread but decided to post my responce to your question in one of your threads, I have not actually read this thread, but its yours so...

Quote:
Here are my Dominiques at around 7-8 weeks old.
One has always had more prominant comb and wattles then the other, both are hens.
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I threw in the australorpe at no extra cost

Added:Ok I'm not a speed reader but I just read alot of it, glad your chicken is doing better.
I'm going through troubles with one of my dominiques right now.
Your story has given me one more thing to look out for, eeek!
Anyway, hope that pic helps ya.

That's the "mona lisa smile" pic of Domineak the Dominique. Hehe