- Jan 11, 2016
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Hoping someone has experience with something similar.
I have a young Old English game bantam pullet with a head injury. She has ripped all the feathers and skin off the back of her neck and one side of her face. She has completely lost her eyelid on that side. I've watched for the nictating membrane but think that might be gone too.
I wanted to euthanase but my daughter begged me to try to save her. Her head wounds are actually healing ok (day 4 today) she is drinking eagerly but we are having to spoon feed. I don't know how to help the eye. Without an eyelid she will obviously lose the eye, what can I do to make her comfortable/help treat in the meantime? She had aspirin in her water for the first couple of days. I've been using some saline eye drops to lubricate her eye and put some chlorsig antibacterial eye ointment on it. Any other suggestions? Photo is day of injury. I've also noticed today she has a dried blood clot in her ear on that side now which I think I am going to have to try to soften and remove in the morning.
Context for wound: We have only had these little ones since Christmas and they are VERY flighty and nervous with us, plus they can fly high and fast. They are in a run with full wire over sides and top. We think something spooked them (fox most likely) because two of them were injured one morning but no sign of the run being breached by any predators (some suspicious scuff marks around the outside of the run that look as though something tried to dig in but couldn't). I think they got so spooked they flew at the wire, got stuck in the wire and hurt themselves ripping free. There were feathers all over the onside of the wire in a couple of places.
(The other one hurt her leg and wing, she is fine, cleaned her up and sprayed some betadine, kept her quiet inside for a day then popped her back with the others).
I have a young Old English game bantam pullet with a head injury. She has ripped all the feathers and skin off the back of her neck and one side of her face. She has completely lost her eyelid on that side. I've watched for the nictating membrane but think that might be gone too.
I wanted to euthanase but my daughter begged me to try to save her. Her head wounds are actually healing ok (day 4 today) she is drinking eagerly but we are having to spoon feed. I don't know how to help the eye. Without an eyelid she will obviously lose the eye, what can I do to make her comfortable/help treat in the meantime? She had aspirin in her water for the first couple of days. I've been using some saline eye drops to lubricate her eye and put some chlorsig antibacterial eye ointment on it. Any other suggestions? Photo is day of injury. I've also noticed today she has a dried blood clot in her ear on that side now which I think I am going to have to try to soften and remove in the morning.
Context for wound: We have only had these little ones since Christmas and they are VERY flighty and nervous with us, plus they can fly high and fast. They are in a run with full wire over sides and top. We think something spooked them (fox most likely) because two of them were injured one morning but no sign of the run being breached by any predators (some suspicious scuff marks around the outside of the run that look as though something tried to dig in but couldn't). I think they got so spooked they flew at the wire, got stuck in the wire and hurt themselves ripping free. There were feathers all over the onside of the wire in a couple of places.
(The other one hurt her leg and wing, she is fine, cleaned her up and sprayed some betadine, kept her quiet inside for a day then popped her back with the others).