I got home this afternoon and one of my young chicks was injured.

 

There is a gash on the top of her head; My first thought was a fight......

I removed her immediatley from the avairy, bathed in warm plain water and applied a very small amount of Betadine....I have place her in the sick cage - mostly covered - heat lamp.

 

After watching her for an hour or so she can, but is not resting on the perches, she is sitting on the bottom of the cage with her head resting on the side of the cage...., she has no other obvious injury anywhere else, and no injury seen to her legs or feet, she is chirping and does moove around sometimes.....

 

I am thinking now that maybe she has crashed into something and hurt herself more than the obvious....do birds get concussion?

Is there more I can do for her in the short term? a trip to the vet if no improvement by tomorrow but tonight I have no car....

Has anyone experienced how a vet diagnoses if a head injury has accured?

 

Since taking the picture I have put seed - millet - and water on the bottom of the cage....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sounds like you are doing the right things so far. heat and quiet are vital.

 

keep us posted

Hopefully she survives! I wish you luck!

Thanks Liv and Ratsy..

 

Although every time I peeked at her last night she was sleeping on the floor, she seems a little better this morning, chirping loudly and has been on the swing, she also has eaten millet and some seed.

 

I'm not taking her to the vet at this stage, I will see how she is when I get home from work this afternoon....

Well.....eating and chirping....but spending a lot of time on the bottom of the cage.

 

She is not fluffed up, is quite active....after a while it seems to get too much and she goes to the bottom of the cage??

 

What do others think?

Sound's fairly promising, if she's eating, drinking and pooping as normal, no infection around wound she might just be a bit strange in a new cage etc without other birds, (was she in aviary)? or maybe a bit shocked if you don't know what caused it. I'd say play it by ear if she's not in the fluffed up I'm sick pose. Give her a couple of days rest and see how she is then, wound would probably be healed over by then also. :hmm:

Sound's fairly promising, if she's eating, drinking and pooping as normal, no infection around wound she might just be a bit strange in a new cage etc without other birds, (was she in aviary)? or maybe a bit shocked if you don't know what caused it. I'd say play it by ear if she's not in the fluffed up I'm sick pose. Give her a couple of days rest and see how she is then, wound would probably be healed over by then also. :hmm:

 

Thanks for the reassurance Robyn....