6month old rooster survived a bobcat attack but won’t eat or drink

[Anon112]

Ok we will cut it down tomorrow. We bought an anti microbial spray and sprayed the area but not actually cleaned with soap and water .

Getting the wound clean is very important. After one of my hens survived a fox attack, my vet told me that the good news is that chickens can't get rabies, but that with bite wounds you have to really be on guard against infection because either a claw or a tooth can penetrate pretty deeply.

With deep injuries, you can even use a syringe to really spray a hard stream so that it pushes the liquid into the wound and not just on the surface. (Don't put the syringe into the wound, just use the syringe to generate a stream of water with some force).

If you have any access to a vet, you might be able to get some antibiotics or at the very least something anti-inflammatory.

 

[akitafriendakita]

This bird should be inside in a plastic tub with bedding or something, it's way too stressful for a bird that injured to just be walking around outside trying to manage. They need to be isolated, very close to food and water, possibly handfed for a while depending on how bad the situation is.

Mine survived a hawk attack recently, and the first three days she hardly moved, mostly because they'll be very sore after an attack like that. I had to smear all her wounds with neosporin and flush them with saline water a couple times a day until they closed up. Also had to hand feed her for a while because she was too sore to move on her own.

Keep in mind that most cat salivas will melt down meats and bird tissues - if you do not wash it away, it may keep eating away at the wound and harming the bird more. Cat saliva is essentially like poison to a bird. Cat bites are also very dirty and that wound is likely very infected without any treatment.

Him being outside this whole time and trying to manage alone probably means that he hasn't really been able to do anything for himself and the wounds may be very infected by now. Given that you haven't really been helping him much, he's likely very weakened and it's hard to say if he'll make it at this point. It doesn't look like the wound has been cleaned at all given that he's still covered in dried blood.

You have to be pretty on top of taking care of a bird that is that injured if you want it to survive.