URGENT-- frozen feet!

[Dona Worry]

Peri modeling the latest fashions in chicken swimwear.

Will it work? NO IDEA.

 

[Dona Worry]

Well you are only putting them in the water to clean off poopy feet, correct?
Only need a half inch of water for that.
Could always make a sling over a bucket.

I don't understand why they are in the bath daily?

They get a 20 minute soak in Epsom salts twice a day. Seems to dramatically increase their comfort levels. I do them all at once in the bath for convenience, but if Victoria tries to drown herself again and the life jacket doesn't work, I'll have to put her in a bucket with a sling.

Eta: The deeper the water, the calmer they seem to be. Just barely able to touch seems to be the sweet spot.

 

[BY Bob]

They get a 20 minute soak in Epsom salts twice a day. Seems to dramatically increase their comfort levels. I do them all at once in the bath for convenience, but if Victoria tries to drown herself again and the life jacket doesn't work, I'll have to put her in a bucket with a sling.

Eta: The deeper the water, the calmer they seem to be. Just barely able to touch seems to be the sweet spot.

Very interesting. Calmer floating. Mine are always that way when they fall in the pool, very calm and cool. Maybe floating them is the answer.

Daisy in the pool floating.....

 

[BY Bob]

Peri modeling the latest fashions in chicken swimwear. View attachment 1654162
Will it work? NO IDEA.

It is amazing what we create when we have to. I can't wait to here if it works. Very clever.

 

[Dona Worry]

Victoria in a bucket with a protective buffer of bubble wrap because she is DETERMINED to drown herself.

 

[BY Bob]

Victoria in a bucket with a protective buffer of bubble wrap because she is DETERMINED to drown herself.
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Did it work the whole time? Looks like a clever, simple solution. Nice job.

 

[Dona Worry]

Did it work the whole time? Looks like a clever, simple solution. Nice job.

Only because I babysat her the entire half hour. She kept trying to duck her head under the plastic.
After, I covered her feet in bag balm and neosporin, and wrapped them very loosely in sterile cotton. It looks like gangrene is starting to set in, so things are about to get very unpleasant. All I can hope for now is to prevent infection, and hopefully get anything that is going to fall off to do so with minimal fuss.
My cow vet is coming on Wednesday for unrelated cow things; I may bring poor Victoria to work with me and beg for assistance.
Here they are, Peri roosting on the log, Jaimie sleeping on the floor and Victoria covered in an old pillow case for warmth because she's wet.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

@Dona Worry how are they doing today?

It just dawned on me that you may be able to fashion a sling for Victoria to soak her feet.
@Kris5902 made a really nice one for soaking feet (creative!)

Here's a picture of it from her thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-to-do-with-this-foot.1285351/page-23#post-20853930

 

[Kris5902]

@Dona Worry how are they doing today?

It just dawned on me that you may be able to fashion a sling for Victoria to soak her feet.
@Kris5902 made a really nice one for soaking feet (creative!)

Here's a picture of it from her thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/what-to-do-with-this-foot.1285351/page-23#post-20853930

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Yesterday I discovered that it doesn’t work well with all chickens... only one out of the four older chickens I did yesterday accepted it. I had to cut leg holes and almost compression wrap our barred rock in a t shirt then hold her in the water.

Not a water chicken like @BY Bob ’s (does that chicken think it’s a duck?!)

Hopefully your cow vet will take a look at her for you today! Keep us updated... and they look so cute in your bathtub together.

 

[Kris5902]

Only because I babysat her the entire half hour. She kept trying to duck her head under the plastic.
After, I covered her feet in bag balm and neosporin, and wrapped them very loosely in sterile cotton. It looks like gangrene is starting to set in, so things are about to get very unpleasant. All I can hope for now is to prevent infection, and hopefully get anything that is going to fall off to do so with minimal fuss.
My cow vet is coming on Wednesday for unrelated cow things; I may bring poor Victoria to work with me and beg for assistance.
Here they are, Peri roosting on the log, Jaimie sleeping on the floor and Victoria covered in an old pillow case for warmth because she's wet. View attachment 1654586

Have you considered trying a warm blow dry to dry them off? Even just mostly? The two I’ve done seem to have actually enjoyed it (one got a full bath for lice last fall, before I got lice dust for them, and yesterday I had a half bath to clean very dirty bum feathers (I ended up just trimming them right off)