Please help will this baby have a chance of surviving?

[PeeppeepXO]

I've had chicks with similar injuries that were just fine being treated at home. Chickens are surprisingly tough with wounds as long as you don't let them get muddy water or dirty bedding into it while keeping them separate from other birds

Thank you I appreciate that. She’s separated, inside, far as I know I’m not letting any kinds of bugs get close. She eats and drinks, she walks around and I hold her during the day but sometimes she wants to walk around so I set up the top inside part of my cats house with paper so when she poops I can replace it and she’ll hopefully be comfortable, seems comfortable chilling in there with her water and food. Open space and has eyes on me and I have eyes on her

 

[PeeppeepXO]

Give some sugar water, 1 tsp of sugar in a cup of water. Poultry NutriDrench or Poultry Cell are good to keep around for rescue or a boost innsick or injured chickens. Dosage is 1 ml per every 3 pounds of weight for a couple of days.

I’ll find another shallow bowl in the meantime and put sugar in the water. I just hope she doesn’t stick her head inside and it gets on the boo boo

 

[PeeppeepXO]

Do not use the product your neighbor offered— it is a general anesthetic, look it up! Use saline (1/2 tsp salt in 8 ounces water) or a wound spray such as Vetericyn to wash wounds twice a day. Cover with plain Neosporin antibiotic ointment. Leave open to air. Keep chicks separate until they are close to the same size. Then slowly integrate them through fencing.

Also they’ll be the same size, they’re all the same age. 5 total.

 

[Eggcessive]

He gave me sterile water, can I at least use that??

You don’t need sterile water, but you can use that or tap water with the salt to make saline. Heat will sterilize tap water. That is what they rinse wounds with in the hospital.

Where can I buy Poultry NutriDrench or Poultry Cell????

Feed stores sell it near the feed and medication aisle.
Manuka honey (expensive) is sold at Walmart in the honey section, and online. You really don’t need that, but triple antibiotic antibiotic ointment works fine. It is just another choice.

 

[NatJ]

I actually don’t have any molasses on hand, we just moved to a larger house so we barely have anything in the pantry. Honey is the closest thing.
I can go to the store and… any brand of molasses ???

Honey should be fine.

The basic idea is to put something sweet in a dish of water. So molasses, honey, sugar, something like that.

If she is eating her normal food and drinking plain water, she will probably be fine without having a dish of sweetened water. But having it available might help if she's feeling bad (it tastes good, and helps keep her blood sugar up), and it should not cause any harm.

But if that idea is stressing you out, just skip it.

The chick mostly needs things you already have taken care of:
--a safe place, where others cannot peck her
--clean wound with Neosporin on it
--food and water

Plus time to heal.

Where can I buy Poultry NutriDrench or Poultry Cell????

What country are you in?

 

[coach723]

You've been given good advice so far. They are very resilient and as long as there is no infection, it should be ok. They heal amazingly well. Just make sure no others peck the wounds, chicks will peck at just about anything, and anything red is a particular attraction. As long as the chick is eating and drinking and pooping normally, you are doing good. If those things change then I would be concerned. Most everything you need, other than the poultry nutridrench and the poultry cell, are all available at any pharmacy or walmart (chlorhexidine can be gotten there as well, Hibiclens, in a small bluegreen bottle, if you want that for having on hand). Make sure the chick is warm enough where you are keeping it, at 3 weeks supplemental heat is still usually needed. Usually at 5 weeks they are feathered enough that it isn't needed at that point.
To hopefully help ease your mind, I've attached a picture of one of my birds below. She was scalped, her skull was visible. I flushed it initially with saline, and used plain triple antibiotic ointment applied as needed to keep it covered, 2 -3 times a day at first, and down to once or twice a day as it healed up. It's important to keep it applied and the wound moist, to aid healing. This picture was about 5 weeks in and feathers were just starting to regrow. Once they were all in, you could not tell anything had happened.

 

[Meghan m83]

Wait where do I get the honey?? And I have peroxide but how do I know how much to dilute it? Sorry for sounding so uneducated but what’s an eye bandage ?

Where can I buy Manuka honey? Does she drink it or apply on her skin? And where can I get metacam?

I’m really sorry I just can’t afford to take her to the vet. I was just going to call to get their opinion and see where I can buy these things that’ll help.

I DEFINITELY DO NOT WANT ANY BUGS GETTING TO HER. She’s separated, in a box I change the bottom daily since they poop everywhere and I don’t want it getting in her neck at all. She’s happy, she eats and drinks, but the would really worries me.
I know which adult did it and if it didn’t lay eggs for me I would have her for dinner. Idk how it got this keep, did the adult hold this chick down? I’m so lost I hate myself for this

You can buy Manuka honey at any local health food shop and some super markets have it, it doesn't have to be Manuka but that has the best antimicrobial properties, any good quality honey will do. Avoid the cheap stuff it won't work. Apply it directly to her wound and then gently cover it.
Have a look on Google re the peroxide wash.
Metacam is only available from your vet. Use baby nurofen if you can't get that.

 

[PeeppeepXO]

Honey should be fine.

The basic idea is to put something sweet in a dish of water. So molasses, honey, sugar, something like that.

If she is eating her normal food and drinking plain water, she will probably be fine without having a dish of sweetened water. But having it available might help if she's feeling bad (it tastes good, and helps keep her blood sugar up), and it should not cause any harm.

But if that idea is stressing you out, just skip it.

The chick mostly needs things you already have taken care of:
--a safe place, where others cannot peck her
--clean wound with Neosporin on it
--food and water

Plus time to heal.


What country are you in?

UNITED STATES unfortunately

 

[PeeppeepXO]

Omg im so sorry but so glad yours made it! Did yu give it a bath at all?

You've been given good advice so far. They are very resilient and as long as there is no infection, it should be ok. They heal amazingly well. Just make sure no others peck the wounds, chicks will peck at just about anything, and anything red is a particular attraction. As long as the chick is eating and drinking and pooping normally, you are doing good. If those things change then I would be concerned. Most everything you need, other than the poultry nutridrench and the poultry cell, are all available at any pharmacy or walmart (chlorhexidine can be gotten there as well, Hibiclens, in a small bluegreen bottle, if you want that for having on hand). Make sure the chick is warm enough where you are keeping it, at 3 weeks supplemental heat is still usually needed. Usually at 5 weeks they are feathered enough that it isn't needed at that point.
To hopefully help ease your mind, I've attached a picture of one of my birds below. She was scalped, her skull was visible. I flushed it initially with saline, and used plain triple antibiotic ointment applied as needed to keep it covered, 2 -3 times a day at first, and down to once or twice a day as it healed up. It's important to keep it applied and the wound moist, to aid healing. This picture was about 5 weeks in and feathers were just starting to regrow. Once they were all in, you could not tell anything had happened.
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[coach723]

No, no bath. Just flushing it out to get it as clean as possible, and then ointment.