Blue Kote actually does an excellent job of covering that type of wound, plus it deadens the pain. You don't want anything that is going to stay wet.
I have seen wounds like that cover over in a few days if taken care of properly.
Do you have blue kote spray? I have used it with good results on chickens, keep her /it warm and dry and try to get the bleeding stopped. If it makes the night you have a good chance of it pulling through. It will be in shock for a few days and you may have to force feed and water. Good luck
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Depending on what breed they are, pullets hatched this past spring should lay all winter as long as they have good food and thawed water. Extra light also helps, but I have never needed it for 1st year layers.
Hope everyone has a great Christmas.
I did the NYD hatch last year, I hatched out about 100 chicks, I sold most of them. But not doing it this year. My coop is not warm enough for baby chicks and having a bunch of chickens in my basement till April/May was not my idea of fun.
It did get warm enough here today to open my pop doors...
My girls have been getting some treats the last few days also. I boiled up some old deer meat, a dozen of older eggs, some oatmeal, and mixed in a little left over calf milk replacer. I heat it up a little and take it out to them about an hour before the lights go out.
I don't heat my coop, but...
I did go a head and open the pop doors today. There was no wind and we even had a little sun, I did see a few of the girls out for a bit, but my coop is big enough that I can keep them locked up for several days without them feeling cramped. Tommorow and Fri I'm not going to open the coop, I...
Hope everyone is staying safe and warm during this winter storm. I stayed home from work today, got up at my normal 4am let the dog and saw the 2' drift around the front of the house and thought to heck with that and went beck to bed. I don't think I'll be opening the coop for the rest of the...
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I have 4 days off work and am enjoying the beautiful weather on this long weekend. It is sure going to be hard to get up and go back to work Mon morning.
I got about 6" of snow over Turs. night/Fri morning, and have locked every one up early the last few days. Some of the girls were not to happy about it, and had to chase them in and shut the door on them. I feed ablout 5 when I get home from work and then go back out about dark to shut the...
I would say you've got young coons after your flock, it normally takes about a year for the wild animals to find out you have easy prey for them. Make sure you get your flock locked up before total dark.
Dogs, especialy Jack Russells would have ripped the birds up, a young coon just learning to...
I think a lot of the problems are when there is only one rooster. I have several and none are nasty, but then I breed for temperment and would cull any one of them at the first sign of human agression. I just will not put up with a nasty rooster. I never let them mount a hen near me, and I never...
I think itsa little early to tell yet, nothing jumping out at me either way. But I have to say the little white one is sure pretty, he/she looks just like the baby Snowy owls I had nesting in a dead tree behind my barn.
If your hens are getting over used by the roosters and ending up with broken feathers and bare backs the aprons help protect their backs so the feathers can grow back and it keeps their backs from getting cut up from the roosters spurs.
Sallysec, the color on the black one is starting to look rooish. Is it starting to get real pointy feathers hanging down just in front of the tail, or by the bottom of the neck? I think both could be roos.
Wow, I don't think the eggs would have much luck at hatching being shipped to Africa. I think it would take way to long to get there.
I'll check on cost, and length of travel time.