I wanted to share with you all my experience in healing my chicken who had been hit by a car. After I found no one to help me, a friend convinced me to try making a cayenne pepper paste and packing it in the huge tear in her wing. I cleaned the wound with a betadine solution, then make a cayenne pepper paste and packed it in the wound. I could find no way to close the wound, as the weight of the wing held it down, so I knew the wound would have to heal from the inside out, in order not to get infection.
The first couple of days, it was a little moist and I would just sprinkled more cayenne to absorb the moisture. Other than that, I left it alone and brought her in to heal. I was concerned, still, about infection, flies and healing, in general. I also sprinkled cayenne on her food, as it has healing properties to help from the inside. She seems to like it. All my chickens will eat cayenne paste, it even helps with worms, I'm told. She stopped laying eggs, of course, but started eating normally after the first couple of days.
After a week or so, the cayenne paste turned into kind of a cayenne scab. It had hardened and covered the whole wound. At about 21 days, the cayenne scab fell off and I could not find the wound. It was completely healed, leaving a small scar. I never had flies or maggots, no infection, as it healed from the inside out and she can use the wing normally. About this time she started laying eggs again and moved back in with her sisters and assumed her position as the dominant hen.
Had I not seen what cayenne pepper can do for myself, I never would have believed it. I now keep it in my first aid kit and use it on myself, as well. We tried using it with spider bites and it works wonders for them, as well.
I wanted to share Buffy's story, so if anyone ends up with a wound and doesn't know what to do, they can do this!
First photo: Here is the wound right after cleaning it. It was deep and long.
Second photo: The hardened cayenne paste "scab". You never clean it or change the dressing, unless the chicken eats it, which wasn't a problem.
Photo 3: The end result after 21 days of the cayenne pepper paste. The wound is completely healed!
The first couple of days, it was a little moist and I would just sprinkled more cayenne to absorb the moisture. Other than that, I left it alone and brought her in to heal. I was concerned, still, about infection, flies and healing, in general. I also sprinkled cayenne on her food, as it has healing properties to help from the inside. She seems to like it. All my chickens will eat cayenne paste, it even helps with worms, I'm told. She stopped laying eggs, of course, but started eating normally after the first couple of days.
After a week or so, the cayenne paste turned into kind of a cayenne scab. It had hardened and covered the whole wound. At about 21 days, the cayenne scab fell off and I could not find the wound. It was completely healed, leaving a small scar. I never had flies or maggots, no infection, as it healed from the inside out and she can use the wing normally. About this time she started laying eggs again and moved back in with her sisters and assumed her position as the dominant hen.
Had I not seen what cayenne pepper can do for myself, I never would have believed it. I now keep it in my first aid kit and use it on myself, as well. We tried using it with spider bites and it works wonders for them, as well.
I wanted to share Buffy's story, so if anyone ends up with a wound and doesn't know what to do, they can do this!
First photo: Here is the wound right after cleaning it. It was deep and long.
Second photo: The hardened cayenne paste "scab". You never clean it or change the dressing, unless the chicken eats it, which wasn't a problem.
Photo 3: The end result after 21 days of the cayenne pepper paste. The wound is completely healed!
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