Chickens comb is bleeding on both sides!!! What to do? Pics included

She wont move from my lap. 🤕😕🐓❤️

Chickens like closeness and comfort: watch a chick with its mother hen sometime. After all, they're flock creatures and need companionship.
She seems like she's been a bit left out, so I think that's natural... She'll be fine soon with good care though :-)
 
I will get some today.
Get Vetrycin instead of Blukote, it won't stain ev.ery.thing nor will it impede your being able to monitor the wound.
I'd let her rest in a crate, get her eating and drinking.
Might put crate out with the flock, in the run or coop.
 
I just noticed something since I think you're new to chickens:

IF you use the Blue-Kote spray on her, shield her eyes from the spray when applying it with some clean "chicken" towels held firmly against her upper eye area between the wound and the eye - probably will need to cover both at once, kinda wrapping the edge of the towel all the way around the front of her head like a bandana, exposing the injured area, but covering her eyes.

You may need help to do that and WEAR GLOVES! The stuff will stain your hands for days.
 
Get Vetrycin instead of Blukote, it won't stain ev.ery.thing nor will it impede your being able to monitor the wound.
I'd let her rest in a crate, get her eating and drinking.
Might put crate out with the flock, in the run or coop.
Always good advice from aart, and they will not steer you wrong! :cool:
I have used Blu-Kote with success, but not the Vetrycin...
 
I have used Blu-Kote with success, but not the Vetrycin...
It's not a bad antiseptic but the staining is a PITA and there are other thing that work jsut as well.
Heck, you can just use a triple antibiotic ointment...which most folks have on hand anyway.
 
triple antibiotic ointment...which most folks have on hand anyway.
I'd caution that the one most people have on hand is the type with pain relief. Or maybe not, I have no evidence either way.
 
I'd caution that the one most people have on hand is the type with pain relief. Or maybe not, I have no evidence either way.
I believe the pain relief toxicity issue has been debunked,
@casportpony would know,
but yeah plain would be best.
 
I believe the pain relief toxicity issue has been debunked,
@casportpony would know,
but yeah plain would be best.
That would be great as it's hard sometimes to find the plain stuff. Then again, it's been hard to find a lot of things. I ended up buying a brand name peroxide at 3x the price because that's all they had.
 
It looks like you have 2 8ft roost bars less than a foot apart. I’m wondering if you should just remove one of them. With 6 birds everyone would have more than a foot of space and no one would be in front of anyone else. Do you know what is happening at roost time? Maybe go out there at night and watch to see what area the bickering is happening and which bird(s) are causing it. When she does go back in, maybe take out the biggest bully for a few days and see if that changes the dynamic, get her reintegrated without the bully. Just a thought.
 

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