Thank you for this info. If anyone is reading this later, please use this as the method above when treating your chicken's injuries. Unfortunately, I think mine had lung and other internal injuries and she passed shortly after I took her to the vet today. I made the mistake of reading a wound...
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Attaching photos of my hen, Jimmy. I caught a coyote with her in its mouth and scared it away, dropping Jimmy before he jumped a fence. Jimmy seems ok other than the big piece of skin missing from her left breast. No blood. She limps a bit and seems calm, considering. I put peroxide...
Thanks much. We feed them Organic layer feed and some organic scratch. Also scraps of green vegetables and fruit that we have on occasion (apples, berries). Trying to find out why this keeps happening.
Actually similar symptoms have happened to other chickens in my flock the past year or so--all one at a time, never two sick together. They start by getting lethargic, sitting rather than walking around. I notice a messy vent. We clean it out as best as possible, separate them as well, but...