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Update: the white/gray pullet has died. But the frizzle is currently preening, so it should be fine. The culprits have another 3 weeks in quarantine, then they're going into the tractor with mature cochins. With more space and canned fish in their diet, hopefully they will not be so vicious...

Danna, yesterday they had intact skin and pin feathers growing in. And this today. So sure seems like it. The frizzle is acting pretty lively, vocalizing and flapping around. The white one just lays puffed up with her eyes closed. I need to run get the betadine (I only had iodides tincture...

About 6-8 weeks. Not sure what they were getting before, I'm feeding chick starter which I think is 18%. I think grower has 20%. I have betadine and I did have campho phenique if it didn't run out. And I have cans of tuna, salmon, and "beef with juices" that someone gave me, so I can do that...

Thanks! So betadine on the injuries and increased protein for everyone? I'm working to scrounge up a heat lamp for the "hospital" which is a hamster crate and a cat crate in my bathroom.

I picked up 6 bantam cochins from a friend. They were crowded and had picked the tails bald on a few. I put them in a bigger cage for quarantine and it was all going well. Yesterday I needed the bigger cage so I put them back in a small one. It was 24 hours. This is the first casualty: I'm...