🚨emergency! chicken nail 🚨

[chix4lyfe]

How did it happen? How much blood did she lose?

I think someone may have dropped the coop door on her. I wasn't there but that is where i see blood. She has lost a bit of blood but not so much that i'm worried

 

[sourland]

I think someone may have dropped the coop door on her. I wasn't there but that is where i see blood. She has lost a bit of blood but not so much that i'm worried

As my mother used to say, "It's a long ways from her heart." A chicken has never bled to death from a broken nail.

 

[chix4lyfe]

As my mother used to say, "It's a long ways from her heart." A chicken has never bled to death from a broken nail.

Thanks for that! I'm not worried about her dying so much as what to do to help her heal quickly. Right now she's alone in a crate away from her friends and she's trying to escape. The snow is pretty hard because its kind of frozen and I'm scared it might break open again.

 

[chix4lyfe]

Silver nitrate/styptic pencil would stop the bleeding. If that is not available corn starch may help.

thanks! I will give the cornstarch a try