Help! Rooster’s comb bleeding

[Soccerjen3]

Hi!

I went outside to shut the coop door from the run today (usually my chickens free range but itwas raining today) and I picked up one of my favorite chickens (she is a hen) and notice the smallest red spot on her and it look like blood. So I looked up and I saw my rooster covered in blood from his comb. It was dripping. Every other chicken was in perfect condition and none missing. I didn’t see any sign of any predator entry or foot prints around the run/coop ( we have the run and coop fenced with floors and roof and then a second fence around that) The picture attached to this was after I cleaned it up, applied peroxide and then baking soda and neosporen. I checked on all the chickens at 2-3 o’clock when I put them away because it started raining. We have 24 chickens and ONLY ONE is a rooster. So we have no idea what happened and he was not bleeding at 2-3 (I put them away at 5:30/6:00pm) We separated him and out I’m him in his own run in the garage with food and water and a small roosting bar. Do I need to do anything else? Do you think he will be okay? Do I need to wrap it? How long should I isolate him for so the hens don’t pick at it? Any ideas what happened?! Do hens attack roosters?!

 

[DobieLover]

Hi!

I went outside to shut the coop door from the run today (usually my chickens free range but itwas raining today) and I picked up one of my favorite chickens (she is a hen) and notice the smallest red spot on her and it look like blood. So I looked up and I saw my rooster covered in blood from his comb. It was dripping. Every other chicken was in perfect condition and none missing. I didn’t see any sign of any predator entry or foot prints around the run/coop ( we have the run and coop fenced with floors and roof and then a second fence around that) The picture attached to this was after I cleaned it up, applied peroxide and then baking soda and neosporen. I checked on all the chickens at 2-3 o’clock when I put them away because it started raining. We have 24 chickens and ONLY ONE is a rooster. So we have no idea what happened and he was not bleeding at 2-3 (I put them away at 5:30/6:00pm) We separated him and out I’m him in his own run in the garage with food and water and a small roosting bar. Do I need to do anything else? Do you think he will be okay? Do I need to wrap it? How long should I isolate him for so the hens don’t pick at it? Any ideas what happened?! Do hens attack roosters?!

That looks like a puncture wound.
In the morning, check to see if it's stopped bleeding. If it has, I'd use damp q-tips to clean the blood off around the wound then put more antibiotic ointment on it and return him to the flock. Check it each evening at lock up and apply more antibiotic as needed. Don't clean it again with peroxide as it will damage new tissue.
Combs and wattles bleed A LOT. Check around the run to see if there is an errant nail. If not that, it's certainly possible a hen did that. My head hen bloodied my rooster one fine spring morning last year. He was a mess.

 

[Soccerjen3]

That looks like a puncture wound.
In the morning, check to see if it's stopped bleeding. If it has, I'd use damp q-tips to clean the blood off around the wound then put more antibiotic ointment on it and return him to the flock. Check it each evening at lock up and apply more antibiotic as needed. Don't clean it again with peroxide as it will damage new tissue.
Combs and wattles bleed A LOT. Check around the run to see if there is an errant nail. If not that, it's certainly possible a hen did that. My head hen bloodied my rooster one fine spring morning last year. He was a mess.

Thank you! It really confused me. We have had our chickens a year and a half. my family has never had any of them bleed before so we were in shocked. I appreciate it!

 

[Soccerjen3]

Thank you! It really confused me. We have had our chickens a year and a half. my family has never had any of them bleed before so we were in shocked. I appreciate it!

this is what it looked like this morning. Should it be okay to put in back in? This is after wiping up what I could and putting neo on it so it does look a tad shiny

 

[coach723]

It looks like there is a tear at the bottom of that comb point, so maybe he got his comb caught on something, fencing or wire somewhere, some place he was sticking his head through. Depending on the amount of trauma, that bit of his comb may dry up and drop off with time, hard to say. Once the bleeding stops they usually do fine. If you put him back in, then just monitor to make sure he doesn't get pecked and bleeding restarted. The blood will draw pecking. Most comb injuries heal up fine, despite the copious amounts of blood that it began with, as @DobieLover said before, they can bleed a LOT. Reapply the ointment as needed until it scabs up, it may look black around the injury as it heals/scabs, and will gradually lighten up. There may be a pale spot afterwards for a while.