I Got Impaled by a Hawk While Saving my Chicken!

[RabbitGirl]

wow ! Well done on your part, and good luck with your hen. At any sign of infection in your wounds go to the ER immediately.

Will do!

 

[RabbitGirl]

Omg! You’re a hero for saving your baby! Seriously, such a cool story! How is she doing now? How’s your hand?

She's just resting right now, we gave her some mash (pellets + water)

 

[RabbitGirl]

Hey daughter... remember that time you saved a chicken from a hawk, then I saved you from a hawk... then threw that hawk over the fence?

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OMG YASSS!

 

[MROO]

We're both doing better! I'm pretty much the same as yesterday but Scarlet seems to be doing a lot better! Now instead of feeding/"watering" her she just started to drink directly from her bowl!

That's GREAT! And how about you? Can you eat and drink out of your own bowl, or are you able to milk the "Please Dad, just one more bite of that delicious pizza," hand-feeding? Oh - and I distinctly remember how a nice, cold, homemade milkshake in a chilled glass feels REALLY good when held in a sore hand. Not that you should be playing it up, or anything ... just sayin' ... ya know?

 

[RabbitGirl]

@RabbitGirl, are you and your hen both doing okay ?

Ya Scarlet is pretty much completely healed up now, we put her back with the others and she even layed an egg! My wounds are healing too, slowly but surely.

 

[RabbitGirl]

Glad your baby Scarlett is good! Update pic on her please!

UPDATE!
Were both pretty much completely healed up! Scarlet is still a little off, and sill not very talkative and active, but she is walking around, eating and she even jumped up on our water thing to get a drink (shown in first picture) And my hand is also mostly healed too! It still hurts when pressure is applied but that is expected. (shown in pictures 2 & 3)

 

[Lyranonamous]

So we had just let out our three chickens (Scarlet, GJ, and Twilight) my dad @Nifty-Chicken went inside and I was feeding them some wheat seeds when a Red Tailed Hawk came out of nowhere and started attacking Scarlet! My baby! My little one! My only thought process was “save Scarlet” I wasn’t even thinking about myself so I ran to the hawk and grabbed it! It’s claws in my right hand! My left hand holding it’s right wing! The whole time screaming as loud as I have ever screamed before “NO NO NO NO NO!!!! DADDY!!!” My dad when he heard my first scream jumped out of his office and ran over! He had to pull the claws out of my hand! Scarlet was still in the corner. I hadn’t even realized they were in me! After they were out he was holding it! My top priority was still “make sure she’s okay” and I’m so proud and thankful my dad was there because if he wasn't I wouldn't have been able to get it off my hand! His top priority was “make sure my daughter is okay” he then threw the hawk and it flew away. I was looking at Scarlet and she looked dead. She thankfully still had life in her and my dad put her in the coop and closed it. We went inside into the bathroom and I was still very worried but at that point I was a bit worried about my hand too! While my dad was helping me with my hand I kept asking questions like “Do you think we should to go to the ER?” or “Are there any animal hospitals near here?” My dad said “You should be ok, you can still move your hand.” We put Iodine on my hand and rinsed it off with water, I kept saying “Oh my god! Dude I held a hawk!” (I still am even while writing this!) I then brought her into the cage that we usually put my bunny Clover inside of when she’s there so that the other chickens wouldn’t peck at her blood. We then called my mom because she has been dealing with and taking care of our animal injuries for 12 years! She hurried over and started taking care of Scarlet after she cared for her a bit she cleaned my wounds up. I have about 5 wounds from it the two on my palm are the worst ones though. Here’s a picture.
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After she took care of me we went back to scarlet. She looked at her first then cleaned her up and took care of her wounds mostly. We didn’t get a pic of her when she was all bloody but here are a few of after she got cleaned up.
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My mom left after that and I started writing this. I just realized that this whole time I still haven’t eaten breakfast! I’m going to do that now. I’ll keep you guys posted, thank you for reading this crazy story.

You should probably go to the hospital or a convenient care place. Who knows what the hawk carries. You can't see a regular doctor until Monday-that's a lot of time if there is any infection, which is pretty likely. If it were me I wouldn't wait. At the very least do some research. I hope both of you are OK

 

[21hens-incharge]

Holy WOW!

Pretty sure I wouldn't have been that brave.


Good job saving the chicken (and dad for saving you).

 

[ladybugchickenfarms]

Wow, that is a crazy story! You are so brave! Wishing both you and Scarlet a speedy recovery. But, I agree, that hawk is a wild animal and who knows what kind of diseases it might have? You should go get medical help immediately. Again, congratulations on your bravery and wishing you both a quick, painless recovery!

 

[Fields Mountain Farm]

WOW.. what an ordeal! Brave girl you ARE!
Im glad you're both ok!