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When you say there's an air sac in there, does it look like it's punctured, or normal? There is an air sac near there. If it was punctured and is leaking into the surrounding area, and you don't know if it's the surrounding area or the airsac itself, I wouldn't do anything to deflate it. Leakage like that will blow up like a balloon and eventually shrink again. (This happened when we had my turkey's wing amputated - I didn't believe it would, but it did - it deflated to normal again...I had seven dog-mauled geese to try to patch up, so a vet wasn't really applicable).
Sometimes if a bone is broken or nicked, it will leak air into the surrounding area, too - so is she putting her weight on the leg?
And I'm not sure that I would stitch it, personally. The benefit is that it likely was not an animal bite wound so stitching is more safe. Do you have any experience stitching? The downside is that stitching in that sort of area is tough as you'd have to both stitch the muscles back together and then also stitch the skin back together separately. There are many gashes and just flat-out missing chunks of muscle and flesh that can healthfully granulate back in, while sometimes closing up wounds (and creating pockets inside them) can be problematic.
It depends on your experience in this sort of thing.
And yes - you can use the neosporin inside the wound. When I had punctures on a bird, I pack them with neosporin after the "sterilizing' rinse with iodine/water (thinned as we talked about before). When I'd had to stitch, I packed the inside of the area with a lot of neosporin. (In my case, it was a flap of skin that was peeled off of the entire front of a goose's neck - like a hanging dog's tongue. I used Neosporin under the flap and on top of the underlying muscles.)
The body heat melts the medicine into the wound. IF you stitch, you must leave the lowest area missing a stitch so that it can drain (since we dont' really have drain material available like surgigal tubing to stitch in). You can also stick a syringe (without the needle) up into that area to flush the wound with iodine/water solution to clean out the seeping drainage if that's needed. But I'm not sure it would be.
If you do decide to stitch it, it should be done today. Nearly-sterilize some cuticle scissors (clean well with soap and hot water, then with iodine and soap, rinse with alcohol) and remove any little ragged bits of skin that might interfere with the stitching.
And yes - put that much in under the skin. Neaten it with papertowels. Just make it a layer - it doesn't have to be gobs of it.
When you say there's an air sac in there, does it look like it's punctured, or normal? There is an air sac near there. If it was punctured and is leaking into the surrounding area, and you don't know if it's the surrounding area or the airsac itself, I wouldn't do anything to deflate it. Leakage like that will blow up like a balloon and eventually shrink again. (This happened when we had my turkey's wing amputated - I didn't believe it would, but it did - it deflated to normal again...I had seven dog-mauled geese to try to patch up, so a vet wasn't really applicable).
Sometimes if a bone is broken or nicked, it will leak air into the surrounding area, too - so is she putting her weight on the leg?
And I'm not sure that I would stitch it, personally. The benefit is that it likely was not an animal bite wound so stitching is more safe. Do you have any experience stitching? The downside is that stitching in that sort of area is tough as you'd have to both stitch the muscles back together and then also stitch the skin back together separately. There are many gashes and just flat-out missing chunks of muscle and flesh that can healthfully granulate back in, while sometimes closing up wounds (and creating pockets inside them) can be problematic.
It depends on your experience in this sort of thing.
And yes - you can use the neosporin inside the wound. When I had punctures on a bird, I pack them with neosporin after the "sterilizing' rinse with iodine/water (thinned as we talked about before). When I'd had to stitch, I packed the inside of the area with a lot of neosporin. (In my case, it was a flap of skin that was peeled off of the entire front of a goose's neck - like a hanging dog's tongue. I used Neosporin under the flap and on top of the underlying muscles.)
The body heat melts the medicine into the wound. IF you stitch, you must leave the lowest area missing a stitch so that it can drain (since we dont' really have drain material available like surgigal tubing to stitch in). You can also stick a syringe (without the needle) up into that area to flush the wound with iodine/water solution to clean out the seeping drainage if that's needed. But I'm not sure it would be.
If you do decide to stitch it, it should be done today. Nearly-sterilize some cuticle scissors (clean well with soap and hot water, then with iodine and soap, rinse with alcohol) and remove any little ragged bits of skin that might interfere with the stitching.
And yes - put that much in under the skin. Neaten it with papertowels. Just make it a layer - it doesn't have to be gobs of it.
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