Chicken Jugular Damaged, Bleeding out

[The Great Eel Man]

I got home to see my favorite chicken be completely covered in blood, apparently she had been attacked by another one of our chickens and was bleeding from her neck. My brother currently has her and is applying pressure to the wound, I don't know if she was pecked straight into the Trachea or not but I guess that's the worst case scenario. She is not looking great right now, heavy breathing, lost a lot of blood. I honestly don't know if she'll make it. We tried to put corn starch on the wound to stop the bleeding and that's helped and we've had it under pressure for about an hour and a half. The bleeding has slowed a lot but she still is not looking very good.

 

[micstrachan]

If you have any liver she could eat a little bit of, that might help replenish what she has lost, along with water, of course. I would also put vitamins and electrolytes in her water, if you have them. Good luck.

 

[chickendreams24]

The reason his comb is smaller is that he has a pea comb. I'm guessing just based on the pictures that he is a dark Brahma, but I can't be sure just from the photos.

If you want to keep both brothers you will need I would say a minimum of 15-20 pullets/hens for them.

If you have all roosters and only want to keep a bachelor group it can be done. Of course you won't get any eggs from them and they do like to go through the feed.

Roosters and cockerals will fight over dominance but usually don't keep fighting constantly as long as there is enough space, food and water.

However this being many of your boys' first spring their hormones are running extra high.

Are the boys over breeding the girls?

 

[micstrachan]

Oh no! This is awful. How is she now? If and when the bleeding stops completely, I think she needs rest, warmth and fluids. I’m so very sorry this happened. She looks quite alert in the photo. Is she still Alert now?

 

[chickendreams24]

Okay first thing's first. I'm sorry to have to tell you this but your favorite bird is not a girl. She's a he.

So now do you have any more cockerals or roosters? If so they were likely fighting over dominance.

How old is he? And how old are the rest of your birds? How many birds do you have?

What's your coop like and how much space do they have?

If you have no other cockerals or roosters my next thought is a predator. ...again questions about their coop and safety. Do they free range?

 

[ChickNanny13]

chickendreams24 is correct, you got yourself a cockerel/rooster Didn't notice it at first, seeing the wound. Being that chickendreams24 mentioned it, went back to see & saw ... He needs warmth, rest & quiet along with electrolytes & vitamins to build his strength back up. Best wishes...

 

[The Great Eel Man]

How is he doing today?

Much better, he's parading around the house in fact crowing, the only issue is, we can't keep him in here forever, we're planning on selling a few roosters to keep maybe two in the end and I would definitely want to keep him, another issue, his brother, (the one who beat him up) we would want to keep as well but I don't know how to keep them from fighting again.

 

[The Great Eel Man]

Much better, he's parading around the house in fact crowing, the only issue is, we can't keep him in here forever, we're planning on selling a few roosters to keep maybe two in the end and I would definitely want to keep him

I'm just really glad that he didn't have a punctured trachea

 

[The Great Eel Man]

Here's some photos

 

[The Great Eel Man]

The bleeding seems to have fully stopped at this point, she's calmed down quite a bit now but is still breathing with her mouth wide open.