1of my 3 Brahma pullets was missing from the "gang" when I went to put them to bed last evening. I found her with her head stuck through one of the chain link holes with a nickel to quarter size of her neck skin up by the base of her head missing. I brought her in, cleaned with warm water and baby soap. Then I put some new skin around the edge of the wound where it was still bleeding some, and bacitracin on the rest. I kept her inside in one of my cat carriers with a towel on the bottom to let her dry, and so the other chickens don't bully her, and hurt her more. She's my childrens favorite chicken because she's really the sweetest out of the bunch. She's low man on the totem pole, and is the smallest. After scaring the poop out of me I'm almost of the mind the other 4 chickens can go into the freezer and get more chickens than have my little Skye attacked. What else should I do to help her, and also could this be from trying to mate her, or dominance? It looks like someone almost took a cookie cutter to her. I didn't give her any food or water when I put her in the carrier, but did this morning. I only gave her a little to start. I can easily give her more later. Please give me some advice on this. It's the first injury I've ever seen on 1 of my Brahmas.
