First time dealing with injury

[JasonWaterfalls]

Any advice welcome here. I saw this morning one of our chickens has a wound on her head. I assume I should put Neosporin or Blue Kote on it but we are leaving town in two days for a long weekend. I don’t know if separation is realistic since we are leaving. By the way we have 5 hens in our flock and don’t have any roosters. I haven’t seen any active pecking, but obviously something happened.

Thanks in advance!

 

[AidKD]

I would rinse it clean then apply the disinfectant cream. If you think that it was pecking that caused the injury I would remove her from the flock asap. Even if you apply blue kote to it that won't stop the others from harassing her further.

 

[SmiYa0126]

Clean with saline or warm soapy water, then let dry, apply plain antibiotic ointment. You'll need to repeat twice a day for a week.

 

[JasonWaterfalls]

Thank you. Here’s an updated picture. It’s deeper than I thought but not bleeding today and so looks a little improved. We have her separated and have put neosporin on twice since I posted yesterday. Think this looks treatable?

 

[SmiYa0126]

Definitely treatable!

 

[AidKD]

Definitely treatable!

x2!!