I'm sure some of you have had broken blood feathers in the past. And I'm sure you have all come across bad advice. For future, just in case you get broken feathers again, I wanted to let you know what happened with my chicken. He had quite a few badly broken blood tail feathers. I seperated him and tried to pull one. That was the only time it seemed to hurt him. Everything I read said I had to pull them out. It hurt him and there were so many that I didn't want to cause him that much pain when he didn't appear to be in any at the time. One person even told me that if I was going to have chickens I had be responsible and do it, in a not very nice way. I kept the chicken in my room in a tote and let him snuggle and watch TV with me every evening so I could keep on eye on him. After about 4 or 5 days, the feathers healed and are growing again. All of them. Now I am wondering how many times people have caused further pain because of the bad information out there. Everyone passing on what they have read but no expierence with. I know that broken blood feathers can bleed badly. I understanding pulling them in that case if cornstarch won't stop it.
Every situation is different. This may not always be something you can do but it worked for me. I put blukote on his tail to stop anyone from picking on him and put him back outside.
Every situation is different. This may not always be something you can do but it worked for me. I put blukote on his tail to stop anyone from picking on him and put him back outside.
