Help!!! One chick picked out all the back feather of another! *PIC

[aukuma]

I just went through this with a silkie. She has been separated for 3 weeks now and what was a huge hole in her skin has closed to about the size of a dime.

I actually spent the $ to take her to the vet. The vet recommended scrubbing the wound twice a day with Chlorhexidine Solution on a gauze pad. To put nothing on the wound, not even neosporin. I scrubbed the wound when it was open twice a day, once it had a hard scab I stopped cleaning it. She picked the scab off a week ago, I scrubbed the opening again for a few days till it made another hard scab. We are on the third scabbing of the wound and like I said it has shrunk from about the size of my palm to the size of a dime. At this rate of healing I would guess she'll be able to return to her friends next week.

Her wound was originally so bad it caused her to fall to the side when walking. It was open to the muscle underneath and had a huge chunk of skin missing.

ETA: I found the "picker" and she was relocated to my sisters coop where there were hens larger than her and a mean rooster.

 

[Miyashi]

One of my favorite hens was pretty crabby in her first year. She's an EE and she was raised with tiny bantams. She thinks she's little...so when she started being aggressive I threw her in with the "big" birds and she hasn't been mean since then. It was hard to do...but I figured it was like "See, this is what it feels like!" People like to tell me all the time that my birds don't have feelings and they don't think...but they do.

 

[wren]

I would keep her isolated until it scabs over then blu kote it. It is not as bad as it looks. Once a chicken starts pecking others this badly they tend to continue. If you want to keep the hen that did this you could try an anti pecking device that hooks into the nostrils of the bird. Make sure that they aren't overcrowded or competing for food and water.