Emergency! Chicken found bloody

I would just clean it with saline, and apply some plain neosporin ointment on the wound. Tomorrow, I would call around and see if a local vet might see her. It does look deep with some exposed tissue underneath. Vetericyn Wound Spray is very good to use on deep wounds. Keep flies away from her. I would let her be with the other chickens daily in a dog crate with food and water, so the others do not peck the wound. She sounds like she will make it as long as no internal organs were damaged.
 
Make sure to clean off all the blood and identify whether the injury is fatal or not. Even if she is acting like herself, chickens and other animals tend to hide their pain. They naturally do that as an instinct, in order to prevent clear signs of injury to predators.
 
Make sure to clean off all the blood and identify whether the injury is fatal or not. Even if she is acting like herself, chickens and other animals tend to hide their pain. They naturally do that as an instinct, in order to prevent clear signs of injury to predators.
I’m afraid to spray water on her because her ear canal is exposed. I don’t want to flood water into her ear
 
The skin is completely missing. How will this heal. Her tissues are completely exposed
 
I think she needs to be stitched up. Her insides are completely exposed.
I won’t bring her to a vet for stitches it will cost you a fortune. From the pictures I suspect that she snagged it on some wire or other sharp item.
Isolate her from the other chickens and flush the wound, apply some neosporin to the exposed tissue, then apply blue kote spray to the wound and be very careful not to get it in her eyes or on her beak cover her face if you have to. I think she will heal up fine in no time.
 
Chickens are very resilient and recover amazingly well from some pretty terrible looking injuries. Preventing infection and giving it time to heal are most important, if there are no internal injuries and it does not get infected she has a very good chance of recovering.
These may help you, first one has lots of pictures of what the healing process looks like.
http://richie-cunningham.com/2012/04/11/chicken-wound-healing-process/
https://the-chicken-chick.com/how-to-care-for-injured-chicken-and/
 
The skin is completely missing. How will this heal. Her tissues are completely exposed
As long as it isn't too deep, it should heal on its own, no stitches needed. As everyone else is saying, keep her isolated from the other birds, and make sure to keep it clean!!!
You can use hydrogen peroxide to clean it, and you can use aloe vera solutions and crushed garlic cloves as natural remedies to reduce pain. Garlic will also stop the bleeding if it continues to bleed. If you have coconut oil, it will help soothe the wound and will help reduce or prevent scarring.
I hope the best for her!
 
No peroxide, since it can keep the skin from healing. This is from someone who used it for many years in hospitals before it was found to damage tissue. Saline, Vetericyn, chlorhexidene, are all good for cleaning a wound. Plain neosporin ointment can help it to heal. Dressings are not necessary, and the tissue will usually close up gradually over a few weeks.
 
The skin is completely missing. How will this heal. Her tissues are completely exposed
I've seen some 'skinned' birds heal up quite well, not mine but a ~dozen threads on BYC.
It takes a lot of care, and some luck, tho.
Up to you if you want to go down that road.
The missing ear flap could be tough, rinse her using a syringe with her head tipped down to where you don't flood the ear canal.
 

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