Chicken attacked by red tailed hawk this morning.

[PHMurray]

This morning a red tailed hawk decided to try and eat one of my chickens. I frantically ran outside into the snow in nothing but my boxers and scared the damn thing away, however there was some damage to my poor bird:

I am not sure of the type of chicken it is exactly since I got him from a random guy who had them in the back of his van(Whole different story).
She is responding well at this point and is not making any pained noises.
She was being attack for around 30 seconds before I managed to get rid of the hawk.
She suffered lacerations to her head but nothing serious(her eyes are fine and all bleeding has ceased).
The more worrying symptom is that when she drinks water a drop of blood/water falls from upper neck where I noticed a very small puncture wound. She occasionally makes a gurgling sound accompanying drinking.
The picture below is the location of a small red mark no larger than the tip of a ball point pen which is the only injured area on her neck.(her feathers look ruffled from me inspecting her neck)

As per the suggestions I've seen on this website I immediately took her inside and cleaned her wounds and set up a room for her to heal in for the next few days.
She is having no problems eating and is drinking lots except for the above issues. She also is having no problems breathing and does not appear to be in any pain.
My girlfriend works at a pet clinic(dogs and cats only sadly) but is going to grab some baytril on her way home from work today to help with any infections that may come up due to the wound being a puncture.

Should I be doing anything else at this point to aid her healing?
How dangerous is the small puncture wound if she can eat/drink/breathe okay?

Thank you all for being such a wonderful resource for chicken lovers!

P.S. sorry about not having a straight image of the wound but I did not want to grab her head since it is injured.

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC We're so happy you've decided to join us
So sorry for your girl @casportpony can you lend a hand here?

 

[Abriana]

Poor girl!
Just as a warning the hawk will come back. I suggest a covered run or a rooster (mine is known as the hawk fighter among my friends-he’s a Colombian rock)

 

[Lazy Farmer]

I have seen some really fast miraculous healing with our chickens over the years. as long as it can eat and breathe properly just keep it clean and infection shouldn't be an issue. as for the Hawks, it is an inherited risk..especially this time of year when food is scarce at winter time. Sorry about the tragedy that you have gone through. Spring is around the corner welcome to BYC.
-connie

 

[Snuggiepug]

You’ve definitely done the right thing. I have a red tailed hawk that has attacked my birds before. I had a duck that received some puncture wounds and we separated her and applied neosporin to the wound. Since the wound is small I would just watch it and keep it clean. As for the hawk, he will return. I recommend getting some fake owls to mount around the yard. That helped our flock for a long time. We also got ourselves a good rooster who does a great job of spotting the hawks. I hope your hen gets better!

 

[PHMurray]

Thank you for the replies everyone!
She is no longer dribbling when drinking at this point(I think the blood must have clotted around the hole)!!
Still I'm going to keep her inside for a few days to make sure she okay.
Abriana and Snuggiepug, I wish I could have a rooster but I keep my small flock of 6 in the city and while the laws on chickens are a bit vague, roosters are specifically forbidden.
I do have a decently sized fully enclosed run made from scrap wood, pallets and chicken wire, this just happened right after I opened the gates for them to bawk around the yard in the morning. I'm thinking that I'm going to limit their time out of the run to just when I'm doing stuff in the yard until spring rolls around again.
Thanks for the neosporin tip, I'm going to put some on her right now!