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Believe it or not you can use a product they make for cows. Bag Balm/udder cream is a vaseline based medicated salve that sooths and heals pecking wounds. Easy to get at any feed store and has an added benefit of softening the hands that apply it. You can also use Polysporin or Bactine.
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How do you treat an open wound on a chicken?
Clean the wound with a mild antiseptic solution, such as diluted povidone-iodine. Apply a thin layer of antibiotic ointment to help prevent infection. Keep the chicken in a clean, dry environment to promote healing and prevent further injury. If the wound is severe or shows signs of infection, seek veterinary advice.
How long should you quarantine sick chicken after antibiotics are administered?
Keep watching and see when your chicken is back to normal. Keep it quarantined for about a week longer, then place it back with the other chickens. If your chicken appears ill again, remove it right away. A sick chicken will most likely be picked on by the others, especially those on the top of the pecking order, and get the others sick.
How do you treat an infected wound on a horse?
With respect. A horse is a thousand-pound creature that will still follow it's instincts if necessisary. It could easily hurt you. Of course, it doesn't. Horses are amazing creatures. You should feed them in a dish or feed bucket and not by hand because if you keep feeding them treats by hand they might think that you have a treat when you don't and bite you. The horse doesn't mean to bite you, they just think yuou have a treat.
How do chicken get their beaks trimmed?
De-beaking is usually done at 2 to 2 1/2 weeks old Large breeders have a machine to do this and it also cauterizes the wound. There is some questions now about the usefulness of this and how cruel it is. On home farms it can be done with a set of dog nail clippers but only a very small tip of the beak is cut and usually only to birds who damage other hens by continually pecking other birds causing damage.
Why is chickens comb bleeding?
There could be many reasons as to why a chickens comb could be bleeding.They are being picked on by other chickens - and the comb has been injured.The comb may have become frost bitten, and is bleeding.The comb got stuck in wire/fencing/etc and the chicken injured itself trying to get loose.The chicken may have some sort of sickness/disease/etc
How do you treat an open wound on a chicken that has its intestine coming out?
We have found if you use vaseline and push them back in, the chicken should survive.
What does the cape do on a chicken?
stops the chicken dry from the rain and shows distinction in the pecking order for them
What is the meaning of 'don't that beat a chicken a pecking' mean?
That would be a slang-y Southern American saying. "Chicken a-pecking" just refers to a chicken pecking around on the ground, looking for food. "Don't that beat" is the phrase that Southerners use to mean "Isn't that a surprising fact," so the whole phrase is just a way of saying "My, you have said something surprising."
Why are the chickens pecking each others bottom and how to stop it?
Because they are molting or they are at the bottom of the pecking order and I would take them out of the flock but then after they return the flock will treat it badly and the pecking order will change and it might be messy.
How do you treat an open wound on a chicken?
Clean the wound with a mild antiseptic solution, such as diluted povidone-iodine. Apply a thin layer of antibiotic ointment to help prevent infection. Keep the chicken in a clean, dry environment to promote healing and prevent further injury. If the wound is severe or shows signs of infection, seek veterinary advice.
When was Chicken Treat created?
Chicken Treat was created in 1974.
Can you feed chicken to a ferret as a treat?
If your ferret will eat chicken, as a treat it is acceptableAs a treat, ferrets can have small amounts of chicken
Why do rooster's peck at the hens cones?
Pecking is often seen in chickens; the one doing the pecking is saying "I'm the boss over you"; every chicken flock will have an established "pecking order" with the strongest that the top and the weakest at the bottom.
Can you introduce a new chicken to four three month old chicks?
Yes you can, depending on the age and personality of the new chicken- if it is younger and more docile, then the other four might bully it and it will become the bottom of the pecking order, but if it more aggressive then the others will soon forgot that the new chicken wasn't there the whole time and treat new chicken as their boss :) hope this helps!!
Pecking order in a flock of chicken is instinctive behavior related to?
Pecking order in a flock is an instinctive behavior related to social order. It is also an example of natural selection.
How to treat a shrapnel wound?
get the shrapnel out- then cure like an ordinary gunshot wound
What do you do if a snake bite is not poisionous?
Treat the wound as any other puncture wound.
