okay, so i got 8 chicks, and built them a pen with wire all around the sides and bottom... 4 feet high. anyway, 4 weeks ago, in the morning, i noticed a chick outside the fence, and another sitting on top of the fence edge. i put them back inside. then the next day, 2 were out, and i only had 4 inside.. so 2 were 'gone'. i put the 2 back in, and got wire, and covered the top... anyway, on monday (3 days ago) i opened up the pen to feed them, and the door didn't close behind me, and 2 got out. I caught them immediately, and put them back in... at which point i noticed my hand was wet... it was watery blood. so i went back in, and figured out which one was bleeding. it had 2 puncture wounds above and below it's thigh, on it's body... i rinsed it out, and put neosporin on, and taped a paper towel on. It was doing GREAT! Acting just like a normal chicken, eating, walking etc... then today, i bought some peroxide, and when changing the bandage, my 2 little girls helped me pour peroxide on, then dried it off, put the neosporin on, and bandaged it back up. during this process, the chicken closed it's eyes, and went kind of limp, the way that chickens do sometimes when they're on their backs... but then it wouldn't stand.. and was all floppy.. so i put it on the ground, expecting it to stand up, and it had what looked like a crazy seizure, and died. really, really dead.... what happened? (the bite was probably from a fox, but because it has been acting totally normally, i don't think it has rabies...)
