Lost toenail ? Injury question.

[CoastChick]

I noticed My 4 month old EE “flamingoing” last week and inspected her feet. Looks like she lost a toenail and just the quick keeps getting bumped and then will bleed. I’ve been cleaning it up and using quikstop gel and vetericyn - I opted not to bandage it originally because I thought it would hinder her walking (she will walk on it) and roost. However, after three days, she broke it open again. Now I’m rethinking maybe I should bandage it just so everything stays put? What do you think to bandage or not to bandage?

 

[alinas2010]

Aw sorry about her toe! I don’t think there would be an effective way to bandage it so that it would stay, but you could try an actual people bandage? Just be careful about not wrapping anything too tight around it. It’s easy to cut circulation off with how bendy their toes are, bandages end up slipping easily. We had a chicken whose toenail got ripped off, too. I don’t think there was as much quick left as that, though. It did get bumped once in a while during healing and bleed, but eventually it healed up enough so it wasn’t an issue.