Help!!!injured chicken just started blood!!!

[RAM1991]

PS, what are you putting on the wound?

Peroxide to kill bacteria,iodine,and antibiotic ointment. Have any suggestions?

 

[EggSighted4Life]

She is eating and drinking with no problem. All the other severely injured hens seem to be doing well in the pen

Ya, that doesn't sound like coccidiosis then.

What's this talk about animal control?
This is your neighbor, correct? What about being a good one to this person?

Your neighbor has trusted you with their birds and let you into their yard to care for them... that right there tells me the neighbor is concerned and cares for their birds at least reasonably well. They didn't take off on vacation and leave the birds without any care or anything. Why then, would you stab your neighbor in the back by calling Animal control? It doesn't matter if their care standards are not the same as your standards. Food, water, shelter. Sounds like the neighbor has the bases covered.

I hear what you're saying... to a degree.

I agree that not everyone's care standards or resources are the same or automatically equals neglect. Injured animals (over mated with wounds and not just broken feathers and balding)... and allowing it to continue with no plan to change anything or even acknowledging there is a problem... once someone has been approached gently and educated if possible or needed, maybe even helped with some viable options... then sometimes you do need to have the authorities involved.

I'm fortunate to have great neighbors right now. But not so along ago I lived where there were squatters across the street, puppy left to run in the street and got ran over not 10 feet from the school bus stop shortly after the kids left in the morning (not their own kids who were taken by child protective services, barely the lesser of the two evils for them children), peeper spray my dogs behind their own fence, dumping their trash in my alley, steal the sprinkler off my lawn, tweaking POS's who the police can't kick out of the foreclosed home that the owners have vacated and the bank owns because welcome to California the law's on their side.

I still did what I could while the kids were there to show them some kindness. It wasn't their fault.

But I am all to aware of just how awful some neighbors can be.

Also.. when I was a kid... my grandma used to take dog's (others would bring home without permission) out to the country and drop them off. I wasn't raised knowing the full truth about the difference between right and wrong. Though I have learned... some people never will.

I'm also aware that things are not always as they appear from the outside. And we may not know what someone (the neighbor) is facing (medical, mental, financial) or what kind of challenges their animals may have that they are trying to deal with. I TRY to give people the benefit of the doubt, since I too am not perfect. Every day is a learning experience for me.

 

[RAM1991]

I just wanted help to take care of this baby not to be criticized for trying to do so.

 

[ValerieJ]

I just wanted help to take care of this baby not to be criticized for trying to do so.

Well, I think it is very noble of you to step up to the plate for the animals and birds being neglected by your neighbor. What a terrible ordeal for you, especially since you obviously have a tender heart toward the critters. My suggestion is to call the Humane Society, not the animal shelter. If there is no local Humane Society, try the National Humane Society. They are always getting money from us to care for all these neglected animals. Hopefully, they actually will come out and take care of the neglected animals you are concerned with. I worked for a local HS before and I can assure you they would. That was in Jacksonville Florida. Depending on your area you may or may not have one. Good luck to you and thank you so much for caring for the animals and birds.

I'm not a seasoned enough chicken raiser myself to guess what is wrong with the hen, but I sure hope you are able to help her.

 

[21hens-incharge]

Peroxide to kill bacteria,iodine,and antibiotic ointment. Have any suggestions?

I think you should just do the iodine and antibiotic at this point.
Prolonged use of peroxide has been shown to slow healing.
(Learned that when the end of my thumb was lost to a work injury.)

As to the blood...I have no answers but would definitely try the corid.

Sorry about your neighbor being such a not good neighbor.

 

[RAM1991]

I think you should just do the iodine and antibiotic at this point.
Prolonged use of peroxide has been shown to slow healing.
(Learned that when the end of my thumb was lost to a work injury.)

As to the blood...I have no answers but would definitely try the corid.

Sorry about your neighbor being such a not good neighbor.

I will try that! When I get home I will try to upload a better pic of the wound.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I will try that! When I get home I will try to upload a better pic of the wound.

After initial cleaning... peroxide (and iodine) is not preferred to be continually applied...
https://www.marshfieldclinic.org/sports-wrap/identifying-infected-wounds

 

[MomJones]

I like salt water drenching for post wound care.

 

[DuckWhisperer06]

First off,this lady is NOT my friend. And she didn't entrust me to take care of the animals. She just wants me to make sure her house and Bill's get paid. She has starved and killed her horses,shot her pigs ba people complained about flies,and takes newborn kittens and throws them in the woods so she doesn't have to deal with them.


I AM being a good person by BUYING FOOD for her animals and feeding them and watering them. I take HER animals to the vet without being paid back.
THAT IS WHY THERE IS TALK ABOUT ANIMAL CONTROL

Plus she told me she would be gone a week and has been gone two months!

Well, I think it is very noble of you to step up to the plate for the animals and birds being neglected by your neighbor. What a terrible ordeal for you, especially since you obviously have a tender heart toward the critters. My suggestion is to call the Humane Society, not the animal shelter. If there is no local Humane Society, try the National Humane Society. They are always getting money from us to care for all these neglected animals. Hopefully, they actually will come out and take care of the neglected animals you are concerned with. I worked for a local HS before and I can assure you they would. That was in Jacksonville Florida. Depending on your area you may or may not have one. Good luck to you and thank you so much for caring for the animals and birds.

I'm not a seasoned enough chicken raiser myself to guess what is wrong with the hen, but I sure hope you are able to help her.

I think this lady needs to think about what she takes on, she clearly doesn’t want to buy food for any of her animals or even take them to the vet.

If this goes on for much longer, I’d sue her for all of the feed and vet bills and cost of the other coop you’ve built. Is she paying you to house sit? Where did she even go? You can’t just go on vacation for a week or two and just decide you want to stay there for months. I don’t know much about the laws anywhere but is it possible that you could get ‘custody’ of her animals? I’d take them all in, fix them up, and give them good homes, where they’ll have food and be taken care of on a regular basis.

I know I don’t know the whole story, but jeez leweez those poor animals.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

she clearly doesn’t want to buy food for any of her animals or even take them to the vet.

Many of us will treat what we can ourselves but are not able to take most our animals to the vet. If we can't treat the wound or illness... we euthanize.

The OP was not asked to do anything and is doing it from their own heart. There is nothing to sue for aside from it just adding extra stress. Calling animals control or other authorities and then if they can prove what you claim they may press criminal charges.

Video tape what you see... are there animals without shelter from snow or extreme heat? Are they without water? Have open fly infested wounds? Any of that type of stuff... pics/vids are time and date stamped and sometimes even location. They are not he said she said. Write down dates and what is seen or done for the animals to build a case for the authorities.

It's possible someone is coming by and not being seen, or that the owner made arrangements and someone has failed them and they don't even realize it yet. I'm SOOO nervous about leaving my animals for a week for our planned family vacation this year. But I have made arrangements and have to trust all be mostly well when I return.

@RAM1991 One day at a time! We can't save them all... we do our best.

How is that girl???