Golden Sebright Hen bleeding.

[LukebotTectonic]

I walked out to the barn where we keep our chickens currently and found my golden sebright in her nesting box with blood over her wing, neck, and head. She was missing feathers but I'm unsure what happened. Usually she stays in the nesting boxes along with one of our lavender bantam ameraucanas (We keep the five bantams and the ten large birds separate besides one silver sebright rooster who stays with the bigger chickens). We have another silver sebright rooster who's in with the other four bantam hens including the golden sebright hen however I don't think he can peck all that well due to having a crossed bill (If you know otherwise please tell me!) I quarantined her and put her in a box with some water, food, and an egg for her to sit on. I'm really worried about her as she's one of my favorite hens out of the flock, she was acting mostly fine besides flinching when I reached out to her. Any advice or information would be of great help, thanks!

 

[NatJ]

Isolating the hen somewhere safe with food and water was a good choice

Did you look carefully to find where the blood was coming from?

Wounds on the comb tend to bleed a lot, but usually heal quickly with no treatment.
Wounds in other places might be more serious. Sometimes wounds are hidden under feathers, where they can be hard to find.

She could have been pecked by another chicken. If they were leaving her alone when you found her, then they probably did not peck her to cause this, but it is a possibility.

She could have gotten hurt on something. Look around in case there's a nail point, or a sharp edge, or a piece of wire mesh that came loose, or something like that.

She could have been hurt by some kind of predator. Look at what kind of injury she's got, and look around to see if there are holes, pawprints, toothmarks or claw scratches, clumps of hair, unfamiliar droppings, or some other evidence of what it could have been and how it could have gotten in.

If you can post pictures of the chicken, it's easier for people to help figure out what's going on with her.

I hope she is able to recover quickly

 

[LukebotTectonic]

Isolating the hen somewhere safe with food and water was a good choice

Did you look carefully to find where the blood was coming from?

Wounds on the comb tend to bleed a lot, but usually heal quickly with no treatment.
Wounds in other places might be more serious. Sometimes wounds are hidden under feathers, where they can be hard to find.

She could have been pecked by another chicken. If they were leaving her alone when you found her, then they probably did not peck her to cause this, but it is a possibility.

She could have gotten hurt on something. Look around in case there's a nail point, or a sharp edge, or a piece of wire mesh that came loose, or something like that.

She could have been hurt by some kind of predator. Look at what kind of injury she's got, and look around to see if there are holes, pawprints, toothmarks or claw scratches, clumps of hair, unfamiliar droppings, or some other evidence of what it could have been and how it could have gotten in.

If you can post pictures of the chicken, it's easier for people to help figure out what's going on with her.

I hope she is able to recover quickly

Thank you! As far as I can tell there is no way a predator can get into our barn, however I will investigate. I didn't see any bleeding on her comb, and more around her neck area. Tomorrow when I go out there I will take some pictures.

 

[LukebotTectonic]

Isolating the hen somewhere safe with food and water was a good choice

Did you look carefully to find where the blood was coming from?

Wounds on the comb tend to bleed a lot, but usually heal quickly with no treatment.
Wounds in other places might be more serious. Sometimes wounds are hidden under feathers, where they can be hard to find.

She could have been pecked by another chicken. If they were leaving her alone when you found her, then they probably did not peck her to cause this, but it is a possibility.

She could have gotten hurt on something. Look around in case there's a nail point, or a sharp edge, or a piece of wire mesh that came loose, or something like that.

She could have been hurt by some kind of predator. Look at what kind of injury she's got, and look around to see if there are holes, pawprints, toothmarks or claw scratches, clumps of hair, unfamiliar droppings, or some other evidence of what it could have been and how it could have gotten in.

If you can post pictures of the chicken, it's easier for people to help figure out what's going on with her.

I hope she is able to recover quickly

Here are some pictures of her wounds. Thanks for waiting!

 

[NatJ]

The head looks pretty much fine. Missing a few feathers, and I can't see if there is a small injury or not, but I think it will heal fine.

On the back & shoulder area, I'm seeing a bare spot on one side and the bloody part on the other side. Bare spots usually heal fine, I'm not sure about the one that's bled so much. It's definitely important to keep the other chickens from picking at it as it tries to heal, and it's also important to watch out for infection.

I've never dealt with any similar injuries myself, but I have seen threads about injured chickens that did heal from nasty-looking wounds. I don't know enough about chicken wounds to assess whether this one needs any special treatment, or whether it will heal best if you leave it alone.

I wonder if the rooster caused that while mating with her? The bare spots and the bloody spot are in about the right places for that.
You should probably check how long and sharp his spurs are, and keep an eye on the other hens in case it is him.

If it wasn't the rooster, I think either she got stuck somewhere and scraped herself up wiggling free, or else a predator got in and grabbed her and caused it. I don't know which of those is more likely.

I don't think the wounds were caused by other chickens pecking her (although of course I could be wrong here.)

I would say to keep her safely away from the others, with food and water, and there's a good chance she can heal up. But watch out for any repeats, because until you find the cause, the others might be in danger from whatever did this to her.