Injured rooster! Idk what to do!!!

[margaret1657]

So I have two roosters who live with about 15 hens and they usually get along okay, aside from the occasional quarrel, but for the most part my older, year old rooster is the dominant one and the other, who is 7 months old is pretty tame. So I was really shocked this afternoon to find the older more dominant rooster covered in blood on the back of his comb and his neck!! Idk if it’s from frostbite (as it’s been in the 20s where I live) or of it’s from the two Roos fighting (which would be kinda surprising bc I never see them fight). Anyways it looks pretty bad and idk what to do about it! Is there anything I can do to help it heal or should I leave it alone?? Also does anybody have any idea what may have caused this???
Here’s a pic:

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

So I have two roosters who live with about 15 hens and they usually get along okay, aside from the occasional quarrel, but for the most part my older, year old rooster is the dominant one and the other, who is 7 months old is pretty tame. So I was really shocked this afternoon to find the older more dominant rooster covered in blood on the back of his comb and his neck!! Idk if it’s from frostbite (as it’s been in the 20s where I live) or of it’s from the two Roos fighting (which would be kinda surprising bc I never see them fight). Anyways it looks pretty bad and idk what to do about it! Is there anything I can do to help it heal or should I leave it alone?? Also does anybody have any idea what may have caused this???
Here’s a pic:
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he may have caught it in the wire... I would just clean it and apply no-pick.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

As daylight lengthens hormones surge. I generally see fighting in the spring. Your boys could be working on the pecking order. Generally those wounds are in the front and on the face. I agree it could possibly be from sticking his head through the fence. Keep an eye on your boys.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Yeah, actually that doesn't look too bad. Wounds on the face/head always bleed a lot cause there's a lot of blood vessels there but they're often non-serious if they're surface level like this one is.

Wash it up with some warm water, apply some blue kote and/or triple antibiotic ointment (Normal kind, DO NOT use the kind with painrelief) and check on it every day to make sure it's healing. If you see birds pecking at it, you can dab some blue food coloring onto the top of the ointment or use the bluekote and it should stop em.

 

[Eggcessive]

Just looking at the picture, it does look like there could have been some frostbite on the tips of his comb. Those could have been injured easily by pecking or hurting them on fencing. Can you remove him to a dog crate inside the coop with the other chickens? Vetericyn Wound Spray is good to use on the comb. But I would not rub or massage the comb. You could gently dab on plain Triple Antibiotic Ointment (Neosporin) but the Vetericyn might be easier.

 

[Eggcessive]

It can be normal for a junior cockerel to challenge a rooster when they are maturing, so they may need to be separated and one rehomed. I have had 2 together who decided which one was dominate and the other was submissive, but this doesn’t always work out.