So sorry for your loss. How did he get in?
I used an old greenhouse frame for my tractor with chicken wire wrapped thoroughly around and underneath. It was intended to grow out my babies until they were big enough to incorporate with the big girls. It was wrapped, pinned and ziplock tied at any corner but he chewed at a corner enough to fray some wire. We caught him in the act this morning, couldn't get a good shot, by then I realized all but two were gone or dead. One is pretty badly injured. Alive, with several punctures.
TSC didn't have any electrolytes. Not sure what else I can give. He's inside now and I'm watching him. He's feisty and doesn't want me to get a closer look, and it didn't want to stress him. His friend is screaming for a buddy but I'm afraid to put them together with his injuries.
If he makes it to Monday I can get some stuff at work. (A vet) just not sure what to put topically or injectable that is safe?
From 16 eggs, to 9 chicks to, 1 blue ameraucana roo, and 1 black Ameraucana unknown. (Probably a roo with my luck!)
Haven't had a loss in over a year in our big run/coop, but we learned we needed a roof or netting in the run area the hard way. We buried the wire 12" deep and aproned it out away from the pen about 2'. When we tried free range we had too many losses for me to have eggs be satisfying enough for all my hard work! Now they are penned up unless I'm home working in the yard. The critters would scare my girls into the trees and all about, then pick them off. So without netting they learned it was easier to spook the birds than try to get into the pen. Even with a hot wire we had diggers and climbers. Fat raccoons!
Raccoons, skunks, possum, weasels, were at night. Fox issues were dawn and dusk. Coyote was broad daylight and awfully brazen, which is why we shot her. With 3 large dogs, and only an acre in Kennebunk Me, we have quite the critter problem!
Hope someone can learn from my losses!
A secure coop run combo so you don't have to worry about locking them up each day/night is ideal. With only 10 birds at a time, it's devastating when you lose a few. It messes with all my partnerships, my girls have to readdress their hierarchy, and I have to re raise chicks. (Not that I mind it, it's just I want those eggs as a reward for 6 months of feeding and caring for!) I was really hoping for my foundation stock for Ameraucana breeding. I wanted to try to breed and hatch my own for the first time! Next year!