wound care

  1. saracarver3

    Warning, graphic turkey injury - need help on care

    Hello, new member and new to poultry keeping (2-3 yrs.). I’ve never dealt with anything like this. I have a rooster who is a bully and I believed he defeathered my Tom’s tail and entire back end. There are some gashes as well. I had a hard time evaluating the wound by myself tonight. I cleaned...
  2. A

    Dog attack wound healing ok? Pics

    A couple weeks ago some dogs got in my yard and ripped out my Princesa’s tail feathers. I cleaned her up, sprayed with bluekote and isolated her until her downy feathers came back. She’s covered enough not to be picked at by the others, but I’m wondering if the healing is going well. I’m really...
  3. Almo

    Hen Attack from Hawk

    One of my hens was attacked by a red tailed hawk yesterday. After reviewing footage, it appears it attacked my hen for a full 20 minutes before I ran outside and scared it away. There are feathers in 3 different areas showing where the tussle took place. Thankfully I do not see any deep wounds...
  4. A

    Chicken attacked by dog, please help!

    A dog we’ve been fostering got loose on our chickens yesterday. She attacked one of the chickens by the neck. The chicken is still alive, but she sustained serious injuries. At this point, I don’t know what to do going forward. So far, all that I’ve done is applied hydrogen peroxide regularly...
  5. marissa98

    Chicken with Week Old Gash in Side- ADVICE PLEASE

    Good morning everyone. This morning, we were catching our chickens to put aprons on them as they had been losing a lot of back and side feathers due to our rooster. When we got to one of our hens, we discovered a large 3 inch long and 1/2 inch wide gash under her wing on her back. We are...
  6. lbgreenfield

    Comb Amputation Aftercare

    Hello! My australorp tore a good chunk of her comb off today while I was at work. I think she tore it on part of the pen fencing, but I will check when it is daylight tomorrow for blood and/or damage. The comb chunk was barely hanging on, so I sterilized all my equipment, cleaned her head/wound...
  7. ChelseaHungry

    4 day old dog bite wound care

    Hi! I looked for information on this site related to my question, but couldn’t find anything. I had a chicken attacked by a stray dog 4 days ago, and I have been administering first aid as follows: -Isolation -Electrolytes -Flushing with antiseptic twice a day -Bacitracin on wound twice a day...
  8. analyticalblonde

    Horrible Neck Injury...Caused by (maybe) 23 week old Rooster

    My Lavender Orphinton, Sue - the sweetest girl I have that follows me around like a puppy - was severely injured today...about 2 hours ago. I have 13 chickens: 12 are hens; 1 Rooster. He is about 23 weeks old and in the past month, he's started showing his rooster behaviors. I am not absolutely...
  9. M

    Large wound from raccoon(?) attack

    Hi! I am a first time chicken owner, and unfortunately, the coop was not closed one night. One of my two hens was attacked by a raccoon(?) which left a large wound on the right shoulder. I have raccoon question-marked because i couldn't see exactly what animal it was during the night, and it...
  10. W

    Hen been attacked by a puppy

    Hi there - I’m hoping someone can help me. I have 2 23 week old hens that haven’t started laying yet. I also have a puppy and so far they have been getting fine. Last night the puppy got a bit excited and chased the hen floored it and bit it’s neck. I couldn’t see what happened but I think the...
  11. K

    Flystrike and how to treat it?

    Can someone tell me if this is flystrike on my hens chest? I've had chickens my whole life and never dealt with flystrike before. If it is flystrike, how do I treat it?
  12. Z

    Injured chick

    OK new chicken owner here and I could use some help. My five pullets are four months old they've gotten along great up until today. This morning I noticed that one of them had some damage to her comb. I'm not sure if it was done by one of the others overnight but the blood was dried so I cleaned...
  13. M

    Earlobe area open wound, help

    My Azure blue hen Pearl has a open wound on side of head by earlobe? Noticed it midday today, could the other hens have pecked her? How do I help her to heal? Do I have to separate her from the others? So new to raising chickens, she’s my kids favourite I hope she’ll be ok, any advice is...
  14. V

    HELP! My chick is bleeding from the head!

    Our chicks were born in June and have been fine since then. Today I found that one of my chicks was pecked at on the head badly. I assume it was one of my other chicks because they had a little blood in their beaks. I don’t know how to heal the wound, and the chick has been very sleepy. I’m...
  15. K

    Large wound on hens neck***WARNING PHOTO***

    It’s going on 4 days now since 4 of my hens were attacked, 3 of which died. The one that survived has a large open wound on the back of her neck. I’m pretty sure I interrupted whatever animal it was that was attacking my hens because the bodies were still warm and one was still alive. I...
  16. Amanada25

    Lump/Infection on Back

    WARNING: GROSS PIC Hi. I have visited the site many times for helpful information but this is my first time posting here. I have a hen who is, ahem, serviced enthusiastically by her otherwise kind and protective roo (both about a year old). I had a saddle on her for several weeks but when I...
  17. I

    Wound on back needed stitches

    Hello, I started my adventure in chicken tending earlier this spring. Yesterday, I had a Fox figure out the lock to our coop and take out three of our four girls. The one left had a 1.5x1/2 inch wound on her back where her skin was missing. I could see the muscle underneath. We couldn’t...
  18. lunagrove

    Rooster Attacked by Fox! Need Advice ASAP

    My silkie rooster was attacked by a fox at dusk last night around 8pm. He was just going into the coop when he charged at a fox to protect his hens. The fox snagged him and took off with him in the woods. My partner screamed that a fox took off with the rooster and we let the dogs out and took...
  19. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Injured Feet - Bandages? Leg Mites? Ideas?

    Hi all, Our poor 1 year old GLD just bounced back from a pretty severe case of tandem bumblefoot (bottom of both feet. After surgery and with lots of R&R she bounced back beautifully. Of course, upon being back outside for her first few weeks she ended up scraping the tops of both feet pretty...
  20. jessica8804

    Fox attacked yesterday - when can I free range again? Badly injured Chick

    It was a rainy day and when the rain had stopped at about 5pm, I felt so bad locking all my girls up and I let them out. Big mistake. Luckily my husband heard the chain link fence rattle. We think that it was a younger fox, on his own. He killed one of my full grown hens before my husband got...
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