Chicken butt very bloody. Obvious injury

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So I checked on my chicken and I came across one pecking this others butt. I looked at it and it’s very bloody and raw looking. Not sure what to do from here.
 

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Can you clean up the blood as much as possible then take a picture? You could rinse and/or soak it with warm water until you get the blood cleaned up. It is hard to see what is really going on with all that blood. Also, as the previous posted said, separate her.
 
1. Treat for shock as the number one step. Give warm Gatoraid or mix a half teaspoon of sugar into a fourth of a cup of warm water with a pinch of salt and baking soda. Have the patient drink it all or syringe it into the beak.

2. Flush the wound well with saline. This is better than soap and water as it maintains the PH of the tissues. But warm soap and water will do. You need to wash away the bacteria from the wound.

3. Inspect the wound carefully. If it has a skin flap dangling, keep that. Do not cut it off. Look for bite, tear or puncture marks indicating a puncture wound. If you see this, the patient will need an oral antibiotic such as amoxicillin. Bacteria from the predator’s mouth can be injected deep into tissue and can kill in as little as 24 to 48 hours. You can order this https://www.kvsupply.com/item/aqua-mox-250mg-capsules-100-count/P06184/250mg once a day for ten days. Or you may be able to find this or something similar at TSC or a pet store.

4. Spray with Vetericyn wound treament and let dry. Use a topical antibiotic ointment such as Neosporin or a generic without pain killer in it to coat the wound. If there's a skin flap, lay it across the wound that has just been coated with the ointment. Then smooth on a generous amount over the top of the skin flap to hold it in place.

5. It's useless to try to stitch a wound on a chicken. Don't even try. It's also useless to try to bandage a wound other than on the feet. The chicken will not tolerate it. It will be pulled off faster than you can blink an eye.

6. Clean the wound every day following the above steps. Keep the wound covered with the ointment. Never allow the wound to get dried out or it will not heal.
 
Good advice from azygous above. Be sure to separate her until she has recovered. She may have had a prolpase that they started pecking at, or they could have seen so blood or red tissue that they pecked. Vent pecking can result in death by cannibalism. She may recover with soaking her vent in warm warm with salt 2 tsp per every quart daily, and then coating her dried vent in Neosporin or vaseline so that it doesn’t dry out. Try to find out why they were pecking her vent, to prevent it happening to another. Do they have enough room, are they getting outside to roam, and what type of feed are you using?
 

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