Author Topic: red inflamed skin - can you help? (Read 10788 times)

geebee · « **Reply #15 on:** June 24, 2011, 12:03:52 am »

try Sudocrem for the sore bits. I use it for eerything, animal & human

Fishyhaddock · « **Reply #16 on:** July 06, 2011, 10:25:09 am »

Still worried about this hen - what a saga - bought some anti pecking spray and now her skin is going a bit scabby and she seems very sore - is this a known side effect? Thanks Fishy.

jaykay · « **Reply #17 on:** July 06, 2011, 10:58:44 am »

Dermoline (can buy for horses) is excellent. It has calamine in to sooth the skin but also coal tar, which tastes nasty so stops the pecking.
The scabs may actually mean the skin is beginning to mend, but I think anti-pecking sprays may be alcohol-based and therefore dry out the skin.

Fishyhaddock · « **Reply #18 on:** July 06, 2011, 01:03:16 pm »

Sounds bizarre but I wonder if she has got sunburn having recently moved them to an open pen with less shelter than previous. Her left leg is shaking and foot seems tender and when I pick her up she is shaking a little bit. have isolated and she is eating but keeps closing her eyes. Does this sound like sunburn?

jaykay · « **Reply #19 on:** July 06, 2011, 02:05:33 pm »

Could be, if she's 'bare'.

Fishyhaddock · « **Reply #20 on:** August 15, 2011, 10:52:52 pm »

Just thought I'd finish this thread with some good news. The hen is now much better and reunited with the others. Went for anti pecking spray and isolation for 4 weeks until the feathers began to grow and then introduced the others back to the original coop. Can only think that she had a case of stress / plucking out own feathers with a bit of sunburn to boot. The pecking order has changed a little bit - she is no longer top dog ,to speak, but is still feisty when the mood takes her.
thanks for all the advice.