Chicken Broke/Dislocated Wing

[LhickenChicken]

This morning while I was doing chores I picked my 1 year old Columbian Rock off the roost bar and put her on the ground to eat. When she landed on the ground she started yelling for some reason and flapped only one wing. I caught her again and took a look at her wing, it seems to be broken at the joint where it connects to her body or just dislocated. I am leaning on the side of broken since the feathers around that area are pink (like there might have been some blood). I don't know how she might have broken her wing (if she did) because my flock eats Peavey Mart layer feed with supplement and free choice oyster shells. Her eggs have been normal so far (no weak shells). She is not a hen that is low in the pecking order so she should have had access to the oyster shells. I have not taken any pictures yet but plan to when I go out to check for eggs later on. I don't want to take this hen to the vet, it seems simple enough to treat at home, and I can get someone to help me if need be.

 

[TOMTE]

Could be she hit a wall or something? Poor thing! Good luck

@Eggcessive @Wyorp Rock

 

[Eggcessive]

Do you have any pictures? If her wing is hanging down, I would clean it with saline and apply some plain Triple Antibiotic Ointment. Then you may wrap the wing (not too tight to the body.) There are some videos online of wrapping or splinting the wing, but a simple thing would be to take vet wrap or kling and wrap it to the body to hold it up. She might be a little off balance and not be able to fly up to or down from a roost.

 

[Eggcessive]

This video of a man treating a crow shows how to bandage a broken wing:

 

[Sylvester017]

This video of a man treating a crow shows how to bandage a broken wing:

Honey is too sticky...I would use a topical medicine.

 

[Ponypoor]

This morning while I was doing chores I picked my 1 year old Columbian Rock off the roost bar and put her on the ground to eat. When she landed on the ground she started yelling for some reason and flapped only one wing. I caught her again and took a look at her wing, it seems to be broken at the joint where it connects to her body or just dislocated. I am leaning on the side of broken since the feathers around that area are pink (like there might have been some blood). I don't know how she might have broken her wing (if she did) because my flock eats Peavey Mart layer feed with supplement and free choice oyster shells. Her eggs have been normal so far (no weak shells). She is not a hen that is low in the pecking order so she should have had access to the oyster shells. I have not taken any pictures yet but plan to when I go out to check for eggs later on. I don't want to take this hen to the vet, it seems simple enough to treat at home, and I can get someone to help me if need be.

You will need to bring her inside and get a really good look at the wing and any wound associated with it.

If the fractures ends have punctured the skin that is never good news - infections will set in.

You can check out any wounds, pluck the feathers away from the wound if you can clean with sterile water or saline if you have any. Clean with betadine or some other antibiotic cleaner. Worst case you can use antimicrobial hand soap. Do not make it too sudsy. Rinse it. Dry the wound, apply some polysporin and then fold the wing as naturally as you can, then wrap with cling or vet wrap around the body. I prefer cling (gauze wrap) because vet wrap stretches and is hard to work with around a birds body. Tape it in place and you cans put a longer piece of tape around the body for extra ‘hold’ on the cling. Do not make it too tight.

I like to use that white cloth hockey tape, Crappy Tire has oodles of it.

I would also check online for YouTube videos on this.

Healing time for a wing is likely 6 to 8 weeks. For pain meds I would go with Tylenol liquid for infants. Give 10mg/kg.

This one is 80mg/ml, I give .25ml for a 2kg bird (.25ml is 20mg of Tylenol). You can give it twice daily (q 12hrs).

I wouldn’t give aspirin if you have an open bleeding wound, aspirin acts as an anticoagulant - thins bloods preventing clotting.


Good luck! Sometimes they surprise you - loook at my Flopsy! She did something to her hip but she is good now.

 

[Ponypoor]

This video of a man treating a crow shows how to bandage a broken wing:

I had a crow with a broken wing we healed. I called him Sir Edgar Allan Crow

 

[LhickenChicken]

Thank you I will get pictures soon

 

[LhickenChicken]

It's all blue under that skin and kind of bulging out... internal bleeding??

Here are the pink feathers

This is her other wing, it looks pretty normal.

 

[LhickenChicken]

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It's all blue under that skin and kind of bulging out... internal bleeding??
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Here are the pink feathers
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This is her other wing, it looks pretty normal.

Thoughts?