HELP hen attacked by other hens

[thomas885]

I went out side and saw my hens head was bleeding. theres no feathers in the area and when it dryed up it terned black but mabey its just dry blood. I moved him away from all the other chickens.
please help.

thanks for reading

 

[thomas885]

I can try to get some pics if i needed

thanks

 

[TeamChaos]

Is it possible your hen got scalped? That'll mean a flap of skin was torn away from the skull. Is the blood from the comb or the head?

 

[WooingWyandotte]

Pictures?

 

[HamburgCross21]

Its just the pecking order, and i'm guessing that hen is at the bottom of it.

 

[thomas885]

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Is it possible your hen got scalped? That'll mean a flap of skin was torn away from the skull. Is the blood from the comb or the head?
The blood is coming from the head i am almost 100 percent shure.

 

[country chick13]

I am having a similar problem. It is not just one of my hens that is getting pecked, we have 15 hens (3 are 2 yrs old rest are almost 1 yr old). There was no major issues until we got a huge amount of snow, and the girls have been staying in their coop (their choice, they can come in and out of the coop as they please). There are a few hens that seem to be fine, but the majority of them now have patches of missing feathers. I watched them and noticed that my two older RIR are the most aggressive, but they also seem to have taught the others their bad habits! I have tried adding protein to their diet, it hasn't seemed to help at all. I am going to TS today to get some blu kote to see if that helps. I can't do anything about spacing until the spring, we were planning on making another coop anyway because we will be getting 15 more hens this spring. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

 

[thomas885]

would any one sugest blu-kote or hydrogen proxide on the head area

 

[thomas885]

i hered that hydrogen proxide isnt so good so blu-kote mabey