Hawk scratched up eye lids

[AllenK RGV]

I would recommend researching TBI and initial treatment. Possibly things have changed since I was treating soldiers 7 years ago, but at that time our treatment was simply allow them to rest they were almost always very very sleepy and lethargic. I know a chicken isn't a human but with you thinking brain injury and her symptoms seem to match I would follow that line. I would also expect some sprains or strains to her "neck" muscles that time will probably heal as well.

edit- adding link http://www.traumaticbraininjury.com/treatments-for-tbi/initial-treatment/

 

[AllenK RGV]

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[Toctoc]

Thank you everyone for your advice! Mary Anne has been back out with the others for quite a few weeks at this point . She has one foggy eye and seems to be blind in it. She gets completely lost when there is snow everywhere, I don't know if it's too bright or if she doesn't have any depth of field .Other than that she is doing really well . It was scary putting her back outside, but the other girls accepted her back pretty quick.

Thank you again, everyone!!

 

[Toctoc]

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Thank you for this, it helped alot with how a was treating her . . . I had actually come to assume we now had an indoor chicken, so I set up a dog crate for her with sand and suddenly she started eating in her own, then finally drinking, and within a couple of days she was trying to got out into the room she was in. So I knew it was time for her to go back out. I did bring her in a few times to make sure she was getting enough food. Thank you again!!

 

[Eggcessive]

I had a polish hen who was blinded in one eye, and she also was a bit dumb. She did very well hanging with buddies inside the coop and out in their large yard. Occasionally, though, she would go out our field gate and get lost, sometimes not making it back to the roost in evening, so I would find her roosting in a bush. Eventually when she was 4, a hawk forced her into a chainlink fence near our coop, and one on the other side pulled her head off. Of course polish have bushy head feathers making it hard to see anyway, and bump into other chickens.

Thank you for the update, and sorry that she is blind, but she may live a fairly normal life.