cheap replacements for medicated goose injury spray?

[nathanielfirst]

they sell a topical spray using hypochloric acid as the active ingredient at the ag coop store. $20 for a few ounces in a bottle. Can anyone think of a home remedy like hydrogen peroxide that would work instead and be less expensive? for injuries scrapes torn foot...

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Can you post a photo of the product, including the ingredient list of the product you are using?

Also what are you using it for? Wound on the body, foot, leg, face, etc.

 

[GeeseMama]

I use Theracyn

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I use Theracyn

Theracyn would I suppose be comparable to Vetericyn. I don't know of anything that would necessarily "replace" it.

A lot depends on the application. For wounds on the body (scratches/cuts) you can use a triple antibiotic ointment (no pain relief). For leg/foot wounds soaking in epsom salts, dilute betadine or chlorhexidine. Do some research/reading - you should be able to find an alternative for what you need.

 

[nathanielfirst]

my deal is that, they are not my birds, but wild geese, and I have seen a few injured now. So aside from wildlife rescue, if I see one injured, I want to have something I can use immediately, in my car. Naturally, since there are about 100 geese, and I am not a rich person, I want to cut costs down. I would spend $20 for a bottle of something, I want to, but I prefer something like some hydrogen peroxide from walmart for cheaper, especially since I am not totally saving my personal bird's life so much as attempting to be of some benefit to any and all of them....

It's messed up to see one that has been attacked or hit. There are trucker asshole types out here that have hit 2 at least since january, with others having other injury types like feet, especially goslings.

let's see, two of the products I saw in the coop have hypochloric acid in small dosage in them, I forget the names. It's supposed to be for chickens, a wound cleaner. Not for infection. Then Blue Kote (for horses, but works on birds I hear) can be used for infection or antifungal, that's 6 dollars, more my price range

the only camera I have at the moment is my laptop cam, fuzzy picture I never use it

wounds would typically be a foot or leg wound on a goose - torn web membrane. Also a broken wing... so there the thing is. I saw a gosling with a broken, limp wing. He ran away from me. I had trouble getting a hold of a wildlife rescue person, wrong hours type trouble taking him into the clinic, repeated $^**(*$ *&(*( trouble. Now I have the whole wildlife rescue thing in my area figured out. But that gosling is dead and gone. Flies were on him before he died. I did not realize his wing was messed up till day 3 of his injury, then I saw blood when he unwrapped his wing, under it. Old blood, a lot. He was limping on both legs probably from weakness or infection, not injury. It was too late by the time I realized he was injured. When I see something like this, an old or new wound, I want something to help him out. Say I call the wildlife rescue, then the next one escapes, if he escapes I will have put something on the wound, to hold him over to next day.

on the positive side of things, a gosling with torn foot, abandoned by his parents, now has his foot healed, back with parents,and he/she absolutely loves me b/c I gave him food, water protected him from the others while his parents were galavanting around. he gets in my lap to eat.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I see....well Hydrogen Peroxide can damage tissue. Using it as a 1 time flush to clean out a wound would probably be o.k. but there are other things you can use like Betadine, saline, etc.

You have a kind heart and I understand that you want to help these wild birds. Unfortunately not all can be saved. For any wild animal it's survival of the fittest. I recommend that you contact a wildlife rehabber or your state wildlife commission when you run across an injured bird so the bird can be appropriately evaluated as to whether it can be saved or if it needs to be humanely put out of it's misery.