I hear you. I really like superglue for closing up wounds and have glued some good ones, but that is in a tough spot. At the very least a good dressing and antibiotic ointment. Is your tetanus up to date?
Google an image of the nerves in the hand. Looks like you got just the right spot! Those wounds are hard to superglue may need to get out the needle and thread, like Shaw said.
Reminds me of a funny turkey story. Years ago we lived on the edge of town. I hatched some bronze turkeys, they looked like wild turkeys, and free ranged with the chickens. One day we were having lunch and this car pulls into our driveway and this woman gets out and goes to the back of her...
Does she happen to have any Cuban in her? I don't have much experience with Cubans, but mine have those primary feathers like that and will have a white tip in a tail feather sometimes too. They come and go with successive molts.
Do you have an outdoor light?
Never mind, should have read the last posts...
It doesn't take much light to stimulate chickens. Inside commercial layer houses, it seems pretty dark, to me, but it is enough light to stimulate them to lay.
Interesting, do you think that is a characteristic of black birds in general? I am not sure, I have seen some black flow that look like they are heavily feathered, but these black cubans I have are the same way, shorter and tighter in feather.
Beautiful bird! Do you find that all of the hatch colored birds are heavier feathered than the black colored birds? Does the black feathering seem harder?