Sareven I can't thank you enough for your quick help and excellent advice! The comb was hanging by a thread so we had to cut it off and cauterize the wound and put a lot of cornstarch on it. Hopefully she will heal and be able to rejoin the flock soon. We have a red bulb in the coop so that...
Thank you! I locked the opossum in the henhouse until I can get someone to come off it. I bourght little hen into the house in a small dog crate and have her covered with towels near the baseboard heat. She's so traumatized I'm not sure she's going to make it. I've been reading other posts about...
I found one of my chickens with half of her comb ripped off and bleeding pretty good when I went out to collect eggs this morning. I freaked out first and noticed a blood trail coming out of the henhouse. When I looked further things were all knocked over. I found an opossum sleeping in the...