- Feb 14, 2012
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So I had a chicken loose a wing to a fox attempting to get into the run. It somehow pulled the hardware cloth from the post far enough to where it could reach its grubby little arm in there and snatch a chicken wing. So I removed the injured chicken thinking it was a gonner for sure, and isolated her, dressed her wound with neosporin and vet wrap, and went to work re-securing the chicken run. I picked up some antibiotics at my local agrisupply store, and dissolved them in her water. Well to my surprise my hen has made a very slow but full recovery. The problem is that every time I try to reintroduce her to the other hens, they gang up on her, and continually peck her until I step in and remove her again from the group. The first time I tried it they drew blood from her, so back to isolation she went until that healed. I'm not sure how to get the other hens to accept her again, and if she stays in the house much longer my wife might actually kill her...or me...or both. I don't know if they can sense the weakness, the fact that she has only 1 wing, or if they just wont let her back into the pecking order at all. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.