Burn care for chickens

[Rain the house chicken]

A fire happens some where on your property. One of your birds are near by. You try to get it but it already got burnt. Well what now? In this article you will learn about chicken burn care. The first thing to do is get your bird a place indoors. Such as you home. This can be a previous chicken hospital or a dog crate. Lay bedding inside of the crate or hospital set up. The next step is addressing the condition of your bird and it's burns. Are they larger burns or smaller burns? Where are they? The diagram below shows the usual burn areas. Once the birds condition is addressed you need to deal with pain. Chickens can feel the burn so you should take care of that. Locate your butn site and apply ice raped in a towel of papper towel to the burn to reduce pain and swelling. Depending on how large the burn is determines if your bird needs pain killer. If the bird has a burn large then the diagram below it needs pain killer. If not your chicken is all good in pain wise. Your bird will have to stay in for a couple of days depending on the size of the burn site. Yes your bird will have a scar but in my opinion that makes your bird a bit more special.

 

[azygous]

While you're at it, how about discussing injury from smoke inhalation? There are specific ways to treat smoke inhalation that may save the lives of chickens that might otherwise die from it.

The way western states are burning, this is something chicken keepers should know. Thank you for starting this thread.

 

[Rain the house chicken]

I will have to look into that. I will need a bit more info on that topic. But i will consider it. Thanks.

 

[aart]

The diagram below shows the usual burn areas.

Where is the diagram?

Have you had a chicken with burns before....do you have pics of that?

 

[Rain the house chicken]

I have to get the diagrams and yes i have rush my hen she got burnt but as a chick. She does have scars on her wings.

 

[Mrs. K]

It would never occur to me to do anything, but put down a severely burnt animal. What pain killers are you talking about? How do you administer them? I would think that burns like this would cause shock, and the animal won't live long regardless what you do. They would be very difficult to handle without causing additional pain, and if they are not hard to handle, then they are in shock.

If the bird is active and eating, then I would wait and see, but I would be surprised to see this.

Mrs K

 

[aart]

I have to get the diagrams and yes i have rush my hen she got burnt but as a chick. She does have scars on her wings.

What did she get burnt from?
Maybe you can include pics of these scars.

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

A fire happens some where on your property. One of your birds are near by. You try to get it but it already got burnt. Well what now? In this article you will learn about chicken burn care. The first thing to do is get your bird a place indoors. Such as you home. This can be a previous chicken hospital or a dog crate. Lay bedding inside of the crate or hospital set up. The next step is addressing the condition of your bird and it's burns. Are they larger burns or smaller burns? Where are they? The diagram below shows the usual burn areas. Once the birds condition is addressed you need to deal with pain. Chickens can feel the burn so you should take care of that. Locate your butn site and apply ice raped in a towel of papper towel to the burn to reduce pain and swelling. Depending on how large the burn is determines if your bird needs pain killer. If the bird has a burn large then the diagram below it needs pain killer. If not your chicken is all good in pain wise. Your bird will have to stay in for a couple of days depending on the size of the burn site. Yes your bird will have a scar but in my opinion that makes your bird a bit more special.

Try a bag of frozen peas for ice pack. Its flexible and you can reuse it. Just mark it so you don't it the peas. I keep 2-3 small bags in a zip lock..works great.
Also do not let a large denuded burn dry out. Soak 4x4 gauze and apply, saturated, for the first few hours (my experience is human burns but working on same principle of care). Apply a thick ointment or burn cream. I have silvadene in my home first aid kit. It is best, IMO, for 1st and 2nd degree burns but not certain it is ok for poultry, maybe experts can weigh in on that. 3rd degree will not be painful as nerve endings are destroyed..I would mercy cull the bird. Thanks for the article
@azygous

 

[azygous]

I've used Silvadene on chicken wounds. It's amazing stuff. But a prescription is required to obtain it.