Bloody rooster butt help

[picklestheduck]

I found blood splattered all over my run, after looking around, I found my rooster with a very bloody behind. I brought him up to the house and tried to clean him up with some warm water, and I trimmed a few blood stuck feathers. I don’t know how much blood he lost, but he’s not fighting me hard, and it was quite blood covered. At this point I’m guessing it’s a bloody feather or whatever it’s called, I just want to stop the bleeding. Any help appreciated.

 

[Eggcessive]

Has the bleeding slowed or stopped now? Do you think his vent was pecked by another chicken? Is he your only rooster? If there was a blood feather bleeding, it may have caused the chickens to peck at the red blood and make it worse. Blood feathers sometimes need to be plucked out with pliers if it doesn’t stop bleeding. He probably needs to be separated in a dog crate with food and water, until his vent is not so bright red.

 

[picklestheduck]

Has the bleeding slowed or stopped now? Do you think his vent was pecked by another chicken? Is he your only rooster? If there was a blood feather bleeding, it may have caused the chickens to peck at the red blood and make it worse. Blood feathers sometimes need to be plucked out with pliers if it doesn’t stop bleeding. He probably needs to be separated in a dog crate with food and water, until his vent is not so bright red.

Thank you. The vent itself is several inches down from the injury, and is thankfully perfectly fine. That’s the first think I checked. Yes he is my only rooster, he is also the only silkie in the flock so far, (I have two more I will add soon one they are big enough). He had been in the flock for like a month or two now and has seemed to do fine. The bleeding has stopped, but it is now like a big clot. I’m afraid it will catch the hens attention and make them peck at it. There was so much blood stuck on it and dried I couldn’t even tell if it was one feather or a few. I got him to eat a food amount of food, lettuce, peas, grapes, and he probably drank like a 1/4 cup of water. He is now tucked in for the night in a crate in my garage. Any suggestions for what to do with the clot in the morning? I don’t want to cut sticky feathers off of it since I’m afraid it’s going to cut into the feather that is bleeding if that’s what it is. I’m kinda confused by this one.