Hey. I went back through my photos to find these for you. I can't believe a chicken could survive from a wild injury like that! You were lucky he was alright!I had a young cockerel stick his head through the wire by my BBB turkeys and they skinned his head. When I cam into to coop I saw the turkeys pecking at him and he already looked dead. I saw him move though and rushed over, I pulled him out and this is what he looked like.
I put some neosporin on it and kept him separated, he was in shock for a while.
He slowly recovered though and this is his most recent picture:
There are lots of better ways to clean a cut and prevent infection, all I was able to do was put neosporin on it though, luckily it worked.
Great job!I had a young cockerel stick his head through the wire by my BBB turkeys and they skinned his head. When I cam into to coop I saw the turkeys pecking at him and he already looked dead. I saw him move though and rushed over, I pulled him out and this is what he looked like.
I put some neosporin on it and kept him separated, he was in shock for a while.
He slowly recovered though and this is his most recent picture:
There are lots of better ways to clean a cut and prevent infection, all I was able to do was put neosporin on it though, luckily it worked.
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I was very surprised he was even alive, he looked totally dead when I came out there.
I had a raccoon break in during a storm one night and he tried to kill my biggest rooster, the coon slipped in through a window and grabbed him, the rooster somehow escaped through the same window and survived, his neck was scratched up a bit but the main injury was his comb, the raccoon had taken a bite out of it! I do not have any recent pictures but he is fully recovered now, he looks pretty ridiculous though. He was the first bird, besides a Muscovy duck, that I ever had survive a raccoon attack, unfortunately some of his flock mates were not as lucky that night.
I understand that your birds injury is much worse than this but at the time I was horrified to find that one of my sweetest birds had been attacked by a FLOCKMATE who tried to pull her comb off.
I’m posting them because you can see the very fibrous, bulb or root of the comb.
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After cleaning:
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Poor thing! My Buff Orpington had survived from a dog attack that was pretty nasty too once, I thought for sure she was dead when I picked her up but started moving her head around. I kept her separated from the rest of the flock awhile. All of her feathers completely gone. No bloodshed at least. She is recovered now but has never tried escaping the pen again!I was very surprised he was even alive, he looked totally dead when I came out there.
Speaking of wild injuries, and comb injuries
I had a raccoon break in during a storm one night and he tried to kill my biggest rooster, the coon slipped in through a window and grabbed him, the rooster somehow escaped through the same window and survived, his neck was scratched up a bit but the main injury was his comb, the raccoon had taken a bite out of it! I do not have any recent pictures but he is fully recovered now, he looks pretty ridiculous though. He was the first bird, besides a Muscovy duck, that I ever had survive a raccoon attack, unfortunately some of his flock mates were not as lucky that night.
I don’t think it would be infected if it just happened today, infections usually take days to set in. You should try to look at the injury and clean it as soon as possible.
Wow,That looks bad! I wish I could give you some advice, but hopefully some of the more experienced chicken people on here will be able to help you out!
