injured neck

  1. M

    Chicken attacked by fox working on recovering

    Our chicken was attacked last week and a fox bit her on the neck pretty good and left a bite mark dead center on the top of her neck. we got her inside and hand fed her in an isolated coop area for several days and she's been looking better. since a couple days ago though she's not really eating...
  2. JaimeRoxMySox

    Fox attack / Rooster hanging head

    My rooster fought off a fox. No visible injury but he can't lift his head and he's panting. Drooling cause he can't lift to swallow. He's a giant Brahma the size of a turkey I don't know how to help him. He won't lay down so his head is fully stretched hanging to the floor. I'm worried if I...
  3. P

    Is this Wry neck?

    My 3 week old chick has been turning its head to the right. It is still eating drinking and running around normal. He can even turn its neck around the opposite way to nibble its feathers but there is a definite bend to the right at all times. This has been going on for a week. I’ve been...
  4. H

    Fox attack, one survivor - please help! (Warning: pics)

    Fox attacked at about 4am. Noise woke me, I ran and scared it away. It killed one and was on the other when I saw it. I throughly she was dead at first but then she moved, so I scooped her up and brought her inside. She is mostly just lying here breathing gently. Every so often she gets up and...
  5. Helpmehelpmychickens

    Please help I found my hen bloodied in the coop, alive but not moving!

    Hello everyone! I am extremely new to this so I need all the help I can get. My boyfriend and I recently moved to a farm owned by my boyfriends parents. They have a coop with chickens and ducks. We have been slowly learning how to take care of them (a man who took care of the land was in charge...
  6. CCinVT

    Interrupted weasel attack. Hen with swollen neck

    About 1.5hrs ago I was woken by commotion in the coop. DH went out to find weasel attacking hens. It had already gotten 3, and he interrupted it attacking a 4th. Weasel is now dead. Hen is inside. I see some minor wounds on her face. One tiny back of head puncture. The main thing is under her...
  7. M

    Hen Hanging Her Head, Neck Issues?

    Hi, All, I have a 7 month old hen who is hanging her head like she's having neck issues, maybe even a broken neck. My flock is open range'd. I didn't notice her coming out of the coup with issues, but shortly after, I saw her with her beak on the ground. It looked like she was foraging for...
  8. Marrionna

    Severe Head injury. I can see her skull :(

    I have a couple of chickens I added to a coop during the night and I woke up to a very terribly hurt hen and the rooster fighting the others. He is hurt as well just not to the extreme. The hen(grey/black) head is very nasty and I can see her skull. It’s A large area that looks bad and I can see...
  9. L

    Wry neck 9 week old Brahma

    I took in a chick born on Easter who's head is hung down and twisted to the side. She lifts it enough to eat and drink, but her flock started picking on her. She came to me and I have her with a 3 week old chick. From what I've read it sounds like wry neck due to muscular strain while in the...
  10. pecksandkisses

    Quail harmed in back of neck, help!!

    Hey, my male bobwhite quail has a large injury on the back of his neck. The wound is open and appears to have the skin pulled apart. He was sitting on the bottom part of a tree I have the aviary built around. He was very quiet. We have already cleaned the wound + applied antibiotic ointment. We...
  11. S

    Injured chick tossing head and “biting” the air

    We have a 9 week old Wyandotte who had a “too close” encounter with our dog almost three weeks ago. Before the attack, she was perfectly healthy and competing for the top spot in the pecking order. The result of the attack was she lost all the skin around her neck and what looks like lost...
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