California - Northern

[juststruttin]

It must be all that hot Spanish blood. Penedesenca and Basque. I won't mix those again!

Sounds like The Spain-ETA conflict if you ask me. Even the chickens are in on it.

 

[ronott1]

Quote:

I like them to be like this:

I did not know one of them was like this:

 

[debs_flock]

Poor little babies wing has been pecked down to flesh, and all the feather are gone. I have no idea who could have done this. I doubt it was momma, so maybe siblings??

I separated the baby to a shoe box with a heat lamp, and cleaned the wound with diluted hydrogen peroxide, and benadine (spelling?).
S/he doesn't seem affected by this, as far as attitude. Just carries her/his wing lower than normal.
Anything else I should do?

If the only birds there were momma and siblings, I'd say it was the hen. She may be rejecting this chick for some reason.

Don't use hydrogen peroxide. The current medical thinking is it actually harms living cells, slowing down healing. I would get a bottle of veterycin spray. It is amazing stuff, even if a little pricey. You can get it at a feed or pet store (I've even used it on my own wounds....). It is well worth the price and you just spray it on. The gel form seems to stay in place a little better than the liquid (both sprays). Be sure and keep the little one separate, warm and quiet. The other birds will go right back to picking until it is healed and then you will have a little problems with integration. I think as soon as the raw was healed over, I'd see if I could find a smallish chick for company.

Good luck,
Deb

 

[zooweemama]

Whoa! Welcome to all the new faces!

Silkies for ever- your poor sweet chick! Hope she heals fast!

My little chick is doing wonderful!

She is eating and drinking like all the others. Preening. Can track movement and run away from me so it appears that she can see from both eyes. Both eyes are open. Still slightly off and swollen but really improving. Her head is healing.

I did neosporin on her head. Vetericyn drops in her eyes. That's really it. And didn't separate her from all her sibs but kept an eye on the pecking. The red brooder light was good in this case because it makes everything red so it didn't seem to scream "peck me!" To all the others lol.

 

[chiqita]

Sadly I do not know which of the four beat her up so badly.

She is much better today--The wounds look much better and she was chatting with me last night and this morning. The EO Basque is almost completely healed.

Chickens are tough boogers. With that amount of skin damage I would be down for days with lots of pain meds.

Ahh, I missed you had an attack! Yes it IS amazing how much chickens can come back from. The last rooster fight I had ( first silkie fight) was brutal. They have not a lot of room to escape there . Orilley got his name because I thought he had lost an eye ( from the famous one something else orileey) that side of his face went up like a balloon and his earlobe is still not totally down weeks later ( not infected either) . You could see the bone on his scull on his little silkie vault. WHYYY do silkies always get hurt there??

I put blue kote on it, gave him the pain med spray for poultry, and once his swelling came down washed his eye out 3x day with eye-drops from the drug store. He is fine now teaching the bresse how to crow, I can imagine how your poor pullet felt.

It SUCKS when you don't know who the bully is.

BDM, are you going to Fresno? I still have one pure cottage hill FCBM roo left that is of breeding age. After him I will not know for sure who the mothers are, but he was from only 2 hens were laying and Louie the prize roo was his daddy. I could bring him. He is about 4-5 months old, he doesn't crow right now because he is low on the totem pole.

Shoot. Just went out to my broody hutch to find this.



Poor little babies wing has been pecked down to flesh, and all the feather are gone. I have no idea who could have done this. I doubt it was momma, so maybe siblings??

I separated the baby to a shoe box with a heat lamp, and cleaned the wound with diluted hydrogen peroxide, and benadine (spelling?).
S/he doesn't seem affected by this, as far as attitude. Just carries her/his wing lower than normal.
Anything else I should do?

Praying for Amy and her little chick. Poor thing is much, much worse than mine.

You got some great advice, but I use Blue kote on stuff. Neosporin without pain meds first then blue kote to form a layer like skin. Also keep them or other chickens from picking out stuff. I should probably pick the other 2 up, but I haven't yet.

It is a beautiful day today, I'm happy I got home early. we are going to forage kitchens festival dinner tomorrow, i am hopeing to find out more about if they are getting chicken processing equipment for their forage kitchen they are building. We donated in the hopes they would and there would be somewhere you could take your poultry and get it legally processes so you could sell it .
It would be fantastic if more people could sell extra heritage roos processed legally!

 

[chiqita]

Whoa! Welcome to all the new faces!

Silkies for ever- your poor sweet chick! Hope she heals fast!

My little chick is doing wonderful!

She is eating and drinking like all the others. Preening. Can track movement and run away from me so it appears that she can see from both eyes. Both eyes are open. Still slightly off and swollen but really improving. Her head is healing.

I did neosporin on her head. Vetericyn drops in her eyes. That's really it. And didn't separate her from all her sibs but kept an eye on the pecking. The red brooder light was good in this case because it makes everything red so it didn't seem to scream "peck me!" To all the others lol.

YAY!!!
I thought she had passed and you didn't say anything because you were sad.

 

[juststruttin]

I like them to be like this:

I did not know one of them was like this:

 

[juststruttin]

Whoa! Welcome to all the new faces!

Silkies for ever- your poor sweet chick! Hope she heals fast!

My little chick is doing wonderful!

She is eating and drinking like all the others. Preening. Can track movement and run away from me so it appears that she can see from both eyes. Both eyes are open. Still slightly off and swollen but really improving. Her head is healing.

I did neosporin on her head. Vetericyn drops in her eyes. That's really it. And didn't separate her from all her sibs but kept an eye on the pecking. The red brooder light was good in this case because it makes everything red so it didn't seem to scream "peck me!" To all the others lol.

Oh Amy, I'm so happy she is doing so well.

 

[Happy Chooks]

If the only birds there were momma and siblings, I'd say it was the hen. She may be rejecting this chick for some reason.

Don't use hydrogen peroxide. The current medical thinking is it actually harms living cells, slowing down healing. I would get a bottle of veterycin spray. It is amazing stuff, even if a little pricey. You can get it at a feed or pet store (I've even used it on my own wounds....). It is well worth the price and you just spray it on. The gel form seems to stay in place a little better than the liquid (both sprays). Be sure and keep the little one separate, warm and quiet. The other birds will go right back to picking until it is healed and then you will have a little problems with integration. I think as soon as the raw was healed over, I'd see if I could find a smallish chick for company.

Good luck,
Deb

Great advise here. It should have no trouble healing from that, they really are amazing at what they can heal from.

Whoa! Welcome to all the new faces!

Silkies for ever- your poor sweet chick! Hope she heals fast!

My little chick is doing wonderful!

She is eating and drinking like all the others. Preening. Can track movement and run away from me so it appears that she can see from both eyes. Both eyes are open. Still slightly off and swollen but really improving. Her head is healing.

I did neosporin on her head. Vetericyn drops in her eyes. That's really it. And didn't separate her from all her sibs but kept an eye on the pecking. The red brooder light was good in this case because it makes everything red so it didn't seem to scream "peck me!" To all the others lol.

Awesome! I was so worried that she wasn't doing well and that's why you weren't posting. Phew!

 

[WildflowerJLH]

Every Sunday... For the rest of my life. ;-)

LOL! I will see what you have when we get closer!