Injured chick alternatives to blue kote

[boyswillbeboys]

I came home today to find one of my 5 week old chicks bleeding, he is missing wing feathers where he is bleeding, and the feathers from under that area (picking, I presume) likely it is a pin feather or pecking injury, they are in with full grown chickens but have an enclosed safety area, to get away from the big chickens, where their food is.

I have separated him for now, with food and water in a cat crate, until I get my kids in bed, then I will bring him in, and clean him up properly. I don't have anything to put on it to deter picking after (blue kote, is it?) is there a way I can make something to serve the same purpose? This is my first injury of this type

 

[Eggcessive]

Iodine or betadine would work. also you might try some blue or green food coloring with a little antibiotic ointment mixed together first.

 

[boyswillbeboys]

Thanks eggscessive, once again, you are awesome.

Now to find the ointment while the kids finish a very late supper

 

[Eggcessive]

Thank you, I hope it works. I would probably not let them get with the big chickens until they are closer in size. Can you just keep a little fence between them inside the coop? You can use vinyl poultry wire pretty easily to divide a coop. It is the green fencing in the roll in this picture. This is how I introduce chicks to big girls, but I also put bird netting on top to keep out the meanies, and to keep the little ones from perching on the sides. It can be flipped over for little chicks, and like it is for old chicks.

 

[boyswillbeboys]

They have been in there for about 2 weeks now, this is the first incident I've had. I have a wire dog crate on it's side, the bars in the 'bottom' now the side, are far enough apart that the chicks can come and go as they please, but keeps the big girls out. There is enough room in there for them all to stand or lay around, I don't feel it is enough room for them to be locked in there all the time, as there are 12 of them, and they are all trying out their wings, even at 3 weeks, when they went in, without being allowed out of the cage, they were flying and bumping into the top, and it's not a small crate, it's for a 100lb dog.

 

[boyswillbeboys]

Its worse than my initial assesment led me to believe, I have him back isolated for the night, in the cat crate after cleaning his wounds, the one on his wing is about the size of a nickle, and then his vent was also injured, the area between his tailbone and vent has been ripped open, until both areas are fully clotted, the colored ointment won't stick anyway.

I'm hoping he won't pick at them to much overnight, but he shouldn't, as the coop is dark now for the next 10-11 hours, until I open it again.

 

[Eggcessive]

Clean his wounds as if they were yours--weak betadine or hibiclens, and then apply neosporin or triple antibiotic ointment daily. Wounds can heal pretty quickly if no flies get on them. Good luck.