Injured chickens after dog attack

The issue with aspirin is that it thins the blood and that's not a good thing if there is bleeding. Since there could be internal injuries, and we haven't seen pictures yet, I would hold off on that. At this point, cleaning and flushing out wounds, treating for shock, are the most important things. If you have electrolites put that in their drinking water. Try to get them drinking and hydrated, dip their beaks if needed to try to get them to drink. Put them in a safe, low light, warm, quiet place. Sick or injured birds can become hypothermic easily, so warmth is necessary. Fluids should be room temperature to slightly warm. If a bird seems cold you can put towels in a dryer to warm them and then roll them and put them around the bird. So sorry this happened. It never happens at a 'convenient' time, always at the worst time it seems. They can often recover from some pretty horrible injuries if there is not infection, internal injuries are harder to know. Sadly dogs tend to squeeze and shake.
 
The issue with aspirin is that it thins the blood and that's not a good thing if there is bleeding. Since there could be internal injuries, and we haven't seen pictures yet, I would hold off on that. At this point, cleaning and flushing out wounds, treating for shock, are the most important things. If you have electrolites put that in their drinking water. Try to get them drinking and hydrated, dip their beaks if needed to try to get them to drink. Put them in a safe, low light, warm, quiet place. Sick or injured birds can become hypothermic easily, so warmth is necessary. Fluids should be room temperature to slightly warm. If a bird seems cold you can put towels in a dryer to warm them and then roll them and put them around the bird. So sorry this happened. It never happens at a 'convenient' time, always at the worst time it seems. They can often recover from some pretty horrible injuries if there is not infection, internal injuries are harder to know. Sadly dogs tend to squeeze and shake.
I know they do I've been attacked by dogs before. I will be getting pictures added in a moment
 
I came out of my house yesterday and found a dog that we have never seen before 2 days ago chewing on one of my hens. I got over to find her dead so we went looking for the other 11 hens. After a 6 hour search we found 3 dead and 5 injured and 4 not injured. They range in the ages of 6 months to 5 years old. The injured ones (some worse than others) all have tears and holes in their back and one also has a broken wing on top of those injuries she is 5 yrs old and the one that is injured the worst is wheezing and i think she might have a punctured lung she is also 5yrs old, the other 3 injured are 1is 2 yrs old and 2 are 6 months. I am frustrated and very saddened by all of this and vet is not an option. All 5 injured made it through the night. I do not have any pictures yet. By the time we found them all and put the survivors up it was dark out. Will be doing a more thorough look at them today and cleaning them up more. Any help is appreciated.
This is Bella our boss lady she's 5yrs old. She's the worst. A big wound on her back and pretty sure she might have a punctured lung and when I was out there sneezed out some blood.
 

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I came out of my house yesterday and found a dog that we have never seen before 2 days ago chewing on one of my hens. I got over to find her dead so we went looking for the other 11 hens. After a 6 hour search we found 3 dead and 5 injured and 4 not injured. They range in the ages of 6 months to 5 years old. The injured ones (some worse than others) all have tears and holes in their back and one also has a broken wing on top of those injuries she is 5 yrs old and the one that is injured the worst is wheezing and i think she might have a punctured lung she is also 5yrs old, the other 3 injured are 1is 2 yrs old and 2 are 6 months. I am frustrated and very saddened by all of this and vet is not an option. All 5 injured made it through the night. I do not have any pictures yet. By the time we found them all and put the survivors up it was dark out. Will be doing a more thorough look at them today and cleaning them up more. Any help is appreciated.
The first is Mocha the red and black one she's 5yrs and the second worst. Good sized gash on her back and pretty sure had a broken left wing.
The second is Violet the black one she's 2yrs old has a lash on her lower back not very deep.
 

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I came out of my house yesterday and found a dog that we have never seen before 2 days ago chewing on one of my hens. I got over to find her dead so we went looking for the other 11 hens. After a 6 hour search we found 3 dead and 5 injured and 4 not injured. They range in the ages of 6 months to 5 years old. The injured ones (some worse than others) all have tears and holes in their back and one also has a broken wing on top of those injuries she is 5 yrs old and the one that is injured the worst is wheezing and i think she might have a punctured lung she is also 5yrs old, the other 3 injured are 1is 2 yrs old and 2 are 6 months. I am frustrated and very saddened by all of this and vet is not an option. All 5 injured made it through the night. I do not have any pictures yet. By the time we found them all and put the survivors up it was dark out. Will be doing a more thorough look at them today and cleaning them up more. Any help is appreciated.
The first is Ruby the red one she's 6 months old has a decent sized gash on her upper chest under her left wing and a small tear under her right.
The second is Layla the black and red she's 6 months old and has a gash on her lower back like like more of a tear and not deep
 

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I would clean the bites with saline solution and keep the chicken separate so I didn’t want packing at each other.
You can carefully spray with Vetericyn or Silver Honey to help prevent infection.
 

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