Post by kimbits on Mar 22, 2012 1:08:04 GMT
Hi all, I haven't posted in a while but you might remember how one of my budgies had a button quail hatch under her.
That same quail, now 3 1/2 months old, did a number on herself last week and banged up the back of her head from "popping up".
It didn't look like it was healing right, so I started cleaning it with peroxide and applying neosporin to it twice a day.
It probably would have healed fine if Bumbles hadn't kept opening it back up by scratching at it.
I had to bring her to the vet today in order to get it stitched up. It was gaping open and the skin was all loose around the wound. Very nasty!
The vet trimmed off the necrotic tissue and loosely stitched the wound together. He said it left it slightly open in case it needed to drain. What I thought was odd was that he didn't prescribe oral antibiotics, just told me to skip the peroxide and apply a thin layer of neosporin to it. And, if all goes well, to come back in 2 weeks to have the stitches removed.
Luckily I'd saved a small plastic elizabethan collar that my vet had made several years ago for one of my budgies, Boo Boo. She'd gotten into a nasty fight with another hen who had mangled her leg.
I put the collar on Bumbles (and it fits!) as high up as I could because she has such a loooooong neck! I'm still concerned that she's able to scratch at her head even while wearing it, but it's too hard to tell because she scratches so quickly that I can't see where she's scratching, lol.
I guess that the important thing is that she's eating and drinking and trying (and failing) to preen herself. She's sitting on my shoulder and earlier was peeping like she hasn't done in a while. I hope she doesn't re-open it! I don't want to have to pay another $80 to get her patched together!
That same quail, now 3 1/2 months old, did a number on herself last week and banged up the back of her head from "popping up".
It didn't look like it was healing right, so I started cleaning it with peroxide and applying neosporin to it twice a day.
It probably would have healed fine if Bumbles hadn't kept opening it back up by scratching at it.
I had to bring her to the vet today in order to get it stitched up. It was gaping open and the skin was all loose around the wound. Very nasty!
The vet trimmed off the necrotic tissue and loosely stitched the wound together. He said it left it slightly open in case it needed to drain. What I thought was odd was that he didn't prescribe oral antibiotics, just told me to skip the peroxide and apply a thin layer of neosporin to it. And, if all goes well, to come back in 2 weeks to have the stitches removed.
Luckily I'd saved a small plastic elizabethan collar that my vet had made several years ago for one of my budgies, Boo Boo. She'd gotten into a nasty fight with another hen who had mangled her leg.
I put the collar on Bumbles (and it fits!) as high up as I could because she has such a loooooong neck! I'm still concerned that she's able to scratch at her head even while wearing it, but it's too hard to tell because she scratches so quickly that I can't see where she's scratching, lol.
I guess that the important thing is that she's eating and drinking and trying (and failing) to preen herself. She's sitting on my shoulder and earlier was peeping like she hasn't done in a while. I hope she doesn't re-open it! I don't want to have to pay another $80 to get her patched together!
Good luck with Bumbles, sounds like she is in good hands. 
