wound care

  1. Jadedx

    6mth old chick with pecking wound

    Hello, I recently added two 6mth old hens to my existing flock of three girls. I had my chicks in quarantine then introduced in a separate pen before transitioning into the main coop. They have been with the adults for a week when they went after my lil Cochin. I found her hiding under the...
  2. deepbluesea

    neighbor's dog got in, attacked my top hen

    Damn. Sorry for starting with a swear word; I'm angry and sad. Cleo, my six-year-old PBR, was just attacked by our neighbor's golden retriever, who jumped the fence that was partially blown down by the hurricane. I'd propped it up until I can get someone out to fix it and the neighbor was...
  3. SilkiesInSuburb

    Hen with super shredded backside, seems ok but not sure

    My 3 yr old hen charlie was recently beaten up by a group of pullets and had her backside almost completely skinned. We put "new-skin" on her back, it serves as a liquid bandage and scab. She has been isolated and given food and water and blankets. Breathing is normal, and she is stable on her...
  4. OzarkEgghead

    Help...pecking at wounds!

    I free-range my girls during the day & all has been good until yesterday when we had a brazen daylight raid by 5 coyotes. They killed & ran off with one hen & injured another before I could rescue her. They pulled out about 1/3 of the feathers on her back & left her with a few lacerations. I...
  5. artsygirl

    Chicken bite by possum.

    We had a possum get in our coop yesterday and my girl got bit but we stopped it from getting any more serious. The others were just scared crazy, my poor roo is in a state. Sapphire seems good, I just want to know how I would go about keeping it clean, dressing, should I take her to the vet...
  6. IamRainey

    Uh-oh, open wound on the foot

    Just noticed an open cut on my roo's foot/leg this morning. Thank god my husband was home to hold him and thank god, M. Maurice was a calm trooper through the ordeal! I irrigated it profusely with chlorhexedrine, dressed it with neosporin and wrapped it with Vetrap. I also picked up all the...
  7. Silvers

    Chicken attacked, skin ripped off

    Our Rhode Island Red hen was attacked, assumingly last night by a possum and we have discovered her just now at 6:00 p.m. There were ants crawling on it initially, but we have washed those away. She isn't lethargic, actually quite alert and eating as well as drinking a bit. Her tail and wing...
  8. Relleoms

    Hen with wound under wing

    I discovered a wound under Stella’s wing this morning while she was in the nesting box. After dark this evening, I brought her in the house to inspect further. I washed it with soap & water and then sprayed with microcynAH. She’s sleeping in a crate now, separate from the flock, but should I...
  9. CannedMonster

    PLEASE: WOUND advice for injured pullet!

    Agatha is a 5 month old Naked Neck/Turken pullet. She just laid her first egg yesterday. She has been staying on the roost in the morning for the last two days. She was fluffed up but would still move around with the flock once she came down; eating and drinking normally. This morning I...
  10. tracy.lewis

    Chicken attacked by dog

    One of my Barred Rocks was attacked by my in-law’s dog today. Wounds are mostly superficial from what I can tell... not sure about internal stuff, obviously. I have Penecillin. Just wondering about the injectable dosage OR if I can dilute it with something else and put it straight on the wound...
  11. TalullaCat

    Hen bit by dog several days ago, infected wound? help!

    my hen got attacked by my dog this last tuesday. she has a tear in her skin on the stomach with most feathers missing from that area. only the skin was torn and no muscle was visibly damaged. i stitched the wound closed, applied neosporin and sent her back with the rest of her flock. i have been...
  12. S

    Chick got scalped (GRAPHIC PICS)

    Hello, I bought 8 more chicks to add to my flock of 4. When the chicks grew to pullets, I introduced them to my older chickens. I thought everything was going well, maybe one or two pecks at each other, but nothing bad at all. Yesterday, when I got home from school, I found one of the pullets...
  13. morganurban

    Duck injury! Help! :(

    hello, I’m morgan and I have an 8 week old Peking duck, Beaker. Beaker started to get a bald spot yesterday. When we put Beaker in to swim with her best friend Eggbert, the Cayuga duck, She started to quack loudly. Eggbert was nipping at the same spot over and over again. The spot now (the next...
  14. B

    Injured chickens-fox attack

    Hi there, would anyone know how to treat flesh wounds on chickens after a fox attack? Two of my girls were bit before I could chase off a fox. One has some missing tail feathers and a couple of punctures which I've carefully cleaned and put antibiotic cream on. The other chicken, however, has a...
  15. T

    How Did I Get Here?

    We live in TN. Two years ago, we moved out of a subdivision (yuck) into the middle of nowhere; it's so great! We're a half-hour from groceries any direction we drive, so not too bad. We have four kids, but only one left at home. She is immunocompromised, and we were originally told chickens...
  16. sdifiore

    BAD pecking injuries

    We have 2 Rhode Island Red hens that are 1 year old. They free range during the day on 5 acres, and put themselves in the coop at night. We have 6 new pullets (mixed breeds) we are trying to introduce to them this week, and it isn't going well. There has been some minor blood drawn on all...
  17. L

    raising rejected chicks

    Hi! two chicks hatched early this morning and the mother was sitting on one but had already pecked and rejected the smaller one. We thought it would die as she would not care for it so we took it away (was already bleeding and injured) but the other one stayed. She is still sitting on two eggs...
  18. Sunshine Flock

    What to know about chicken pus

    I never thought I'd start a discussion with that title, but here I am. What does chicken pus look like? I found some photos on another site, but only a few. The pus was described as hard, not soft and squishy, and it was bright yellow. She removed several pieces from just under her hen's skin...
  19. Sunshine Flock

    Tips on undercarriage wound maintenance and healing

    I thought I'd start a separate discussion for this from my coyote thread. My rooster has a wound on his belly. I didn't discover it until a few days after a coyote attack. It's centered and a few inches north of his vent. At first I thought the green was bruising, but now that I've flushed it...
  20. S

    my hens attacked my rooster; what should i do for the wound??

    i have 18 hens and 2 roosters and usually the roosters will attack the hens but its never anything serious but yesterday the hens attacked one of my roosters and plucked feathers out on its back. then they pierced the flesh with their beaks and there was some bleeding and the wound looked very...
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