Her is my 10 week old Welsummer pullet, I had been intergrating 23 pullets (6-SS, 6 Welsummer, 5 Black Maran, 6 Salmon F) into my flock all was fine for a week then yesterday I found this poor baby huddled in a corner, I picked her up and gasped at the bald to the muscle neck. Poor thing must have just hunkered down and the savage big girl or girls just pecked her.
I have a very large 10x20 inside coop and the big girls free range during the day and lay thier eggs in the coop. I have had these pullets out in the coop for over a month in my 3x8 brooder but they ARE getting crowded in there as they grow with 23 (note to self too many for me to manage for my set up) anyway, so I have been letting the pullets out and supervising the introduction, only minior peck to get out of my way stuff. So after a week of supervision I left them more unsupervised and darn it this is what happened.
So back to square one, now I let the pullets out in the coop about 3pm when I think the big chickens are done laying and then I lock the big chickens out of the coop and the side fenced in yard so the pullets can start enjoying the outside and streach thier wings.
I have been flushing her wound with betadine solution and putting some neosporin on it. I force fed her water, gave her some probiotics and force fed some scrambled yoke.. She was pretty down yesterday and I am sure shocky, she is in the brooder with my 5 EE chicks so she gets some nice heat. Today she looks much perkier, I think she ate some of her chick food last night and finished off more of the scrambled egg yoke by herself and her water was lower in her bowl.
Welsummer pullet
Sharing the brooder with 5, one week old chicks
I have a very large 10x20 inside coop and the big girls free range during the day and lay thier eggs in the coop. I have had these pullets out in the coop for over a month in my 3x8 brooder but they ARE getting crowded in there as they grow with 23 (note to self too many for me to manage for my set up) anyway, so I have been letting the pullets out and supervising the introduction, only minior peck to get out of my way stuff. So after a week of supervision I left them more unsupervised and darn it this is what happened.
So back to square one, now I let the pullets out in the coop about 3pm when I think the big chickens are done laying and then I lock the big chickens out of the coop and the side fenced in yard so the pullets can start enjoying the outside and streach thier wings.
I have been flushing her wound with betadine solution and putting some neosporin on it. I force fed her water, gave her some probiotics and force fed some scrambled yoke.. She was pretty down yesterday and I am sure shocky, she is in the brooder with my 5 EE chicks so she gets some nice heat. Today she looks much perkier, I think she ate some of her chick food last night and finished off more of the scrambled egg yoke by herself and her water was lower in her bowl.
Welsummer pullet
Sharing the brooder with 5, one week old chicks
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