Baby chick with head injury - advice?

[Westmarch]

Early Monday morning, a chick from our hen's clutch hatched earlier than the others. But the hen is apparently a bad mama, and gave it several pretty harsh pecks. We removed the chick to a safe area, cleaned the wounds with a bit of saline, and have been putting polysporin on the primary wound on the head daily.

Should we keep doing polysporin? Do something else? Visually it's hard to see what's going on, or how deep the wound originally was. Thankfully the chick is in high spirits, eating and drinking and peeping normally.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Do you detect any odors from the wound?
You mention she is in high spirits - is she moving around o.k.?

You can keep applying the polysporin. If you fear the wound is getting hard to monitor, you can clean it again really well, trim the fluff out of the wound and take a look. Reapply the polysporin and keep watch on it.

 

[WVduckchick]

Wow, glad you caught it and she survived!

Good advice from WR. Hope she recovers fully.

 

[Westmarch]

No odors so far, and she's moving around fine. Fingers crossed, and thanks for the advice!

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Sounds good

 

[ChickNanny13]

Wyorp Rock always has GREAT ADVICE Assuming she's got more under her, may consider removing as they hatch.

 

[omilona]

They can recover surprisingly well. I had a 5 week old leghorn chick that had the whole top of her head pecked bloody. You could literally see the skull in a nickel sized hole. It healed up with a bald spot scar and she lived for several years, perfectly happy. Good luck!