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My girl Mother was starting to get a little restless...I made her a makeshift nesting box for the dog crate, she laid her first egg since her injuries over a week ago.

Just an update...Mother is still doing well and healing although the "sliced" areas under her wings are healing slowly. Still eating/drinking/pooping normally. She had one area under one wing that looks like it might be infected but it doesn't smell like infection. Still irrigating that area...

I was reading some other posts and had a question about Blu Kote...someone had posted that this will keep them from pecking at themselves. My hen is definitely feeling better or the aspirin in the water is helping with any pain issues, but will she peck at her own wounds?? They still look bad...

I've got her inside and try and clean up her poop frequently and the liner daily, I do smell something, hoping it's normal chicken smell. I'm a nurse and work in a hospital, have smelled some really bad infections, this isn't quite the same.

Just an update...Mother is starting to move around the dog crate a little more today, eating and drinking. Have not irrigated her wounds yet tonight, will do so with saline and betadine mixture. She's also starting to fluff out her feathers and preening, looks like she's combing out her...

Ok, so I trimmed some feathers last night...poor thing, her wound goes from under one wing across her back to under the other wing she's just missing feathers and some skin on her back, but I can see where the roosters spurs gouged her sides. She stayed relatively calm for the whole procedure...

Again, thanks for the advice! I'll have a helper in a little while, so I'll trim feathers then

Thanks for the advice, how much of her feathers can I safely trim? Told you I'm new at this!

I posted earlier about my rooster injuring one of my hens...I really want to know if I'm doing all I can for her. All of her feathers across he back are gone and he cut her pretty badly (it looks like) on either side under her wings. I think this happened late Friday and noticed she had...