I'm gonna post a new pic of Scorch in the morning, she's pretty much all better now!! Still breathing only through her mouth instead of her "nose," but she's a little beast for doing so well
Someone with knowledge please comment on this!! I am also in the same exact situation! I have a bunch of quail eggs in the mail on their way to me and I'm going to be using a Hova-Bator to incubate for the first time ever.
3am Monday morning, and the burn happened around 1pm Friday afternoon.
She's healing nicely, and we have dubbed her "Scorch." The brown stuff on her head is the anti cannibalism lotion, seems to be working so far!! She's still eating and drinking and running around with the other chicks like a...
Well guys, I'm not going to read through all 62000+ posts on this thread to find someone near me (haha, sorry folks!) so I'll just a ask!!
Butte County anyone?? Would love to possibly chat and check out your flock or do some trades if we have stuff or birds that the other is looking for!
I've put antibacterial cream on it about four times now, I think she'll be all right. If not then I'm planning on getting some antibiotics that I can put in her water for her.
That's what it looked like about two hours after it happened. She got burned and then the other chicks decided that attacking her was a splendid idea (freaky little cannibals!!)
I got some of that anti cannibalism lotion this morning and put it on top of her head, not touching where she was...