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    Feeding organic, and not getting my chicks vaccinated.

    In the 'for what it's worth' category, I've raised chickens here (relative country, eastern PA) for the past 12 years and in a previous place for about 7 and I have never had any chickens (or ducks, or geese) that were vaccinated and I have never had a disease issue. Chickens get old and die...
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    Neck skin missing on young chicken after attack

    Oh, thanks, that's good to hear. She seems to have a light yellowish membrane (for lack of a better word) that developed over most of the non-skin area and I figured if it covers it all then I don't necessarily need to keep subjecting her to my smearing stuff on her sore area all the time. I...
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    Neck skin missing on young chicken after attack

    So, the skin was actually missing on her too. I am concerned about how moist we need to keep the area to encourage healing. Thanks for the information, it's encouraging.
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    Neck skin missing on young chicken after attack

    Wow, Sweet Pea certainly recovered well! Is that gention violet on her? Thanks for the pics, it gives me renewed hope. Plucky lost more skin than that, but it is on the back of her neck where it's easier to see and keep treated. Thanks!
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    Neck skin missing on young chicken after attack

    Good article you suggested, and thanks for the ideas. I'm guessing this particular raid was foxes, plural, since a couple were missing outright. One was dead outside the pen, but intact, and one was stuck with her head through the fence and her head bitten off. Sounds like one must have been...
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    Neck skin missing on young chicken after attack

    Yes, all of our dear animal friends provide the joys along with the heartbreaks. I've had chickens on and off for quite a few years and some were very dear souls indeed. We also have cats (mostly all homeless) and dogs so we get the joys and sorrows of all. Maybe someone can give me an...
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    Neck skin missing on young chicken after attack

    Again, thank you all for your help. I was a bit concerned about flies, but I wondered if the ointment would keep them away from it. I'm gathering that the better plan is to keep the area as moist as possible, rather than letting it dry out, particularly, I would assume, around the edges where...
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    Neck skin missing on young chicken after attack

    Threehorses, I sympathize with your agony over your creatures pain and suffering. It's so hard to watch and to deal with when there is only so much we can do. We can only do what we can and rely on them to do what they can, and God to deal with what we can't. I don't think I could euthanize...
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    Neck skin missing on young chicken after attack

    Thank you both for the comments. As for the antibiotics, some time ago the vet gave me something for the chicken that had been attacked by the hawk, and I thought it was amoxicillin, but I can't find the dosing and strength information - though I have lots of it around. My current...
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    Neck skin missing on young chicken after attack

    Missing skin and she survived! Wow, you give me hope. I don't know that I have neosporin, but I think the triple antibiotic is about the same thing. Did you bandage it at all? I am so nervous about the infection possibility with it just open to the air, but since she's alone, maybe it won't...
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    Neck skin missing on young chicken after attack

    I'm new to this forum, but you guys have great advice so I'm looking for help with one of our young (maybe 3 or 4 month old) chickens. It is probably a famale black astrolorp cross. A creature(s), likely foxes, got into our chick pen night before last and killed or carried off several...
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