PippaHall
In the Brooder
- Feb 12, 2021
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Hi all
Sorry for the gruesome pics, I first assumed the injury was as a result of somehow being mauled but could it be Cannibalism? I'd like advise on treatment as well.
Poor thing has lost most of her back muscle down to the rib bones. She must be in some sort of shock and a huge amount of pain though doesn't seem be reacting as such. I've moved her into her own pen. But she is desperate to get back to the other girls.
I've been spraying the wound with an equine iodine spray. Given her avian antibiotic in her water.
Problem is she now turns as is to preen herself and is pecking at the raw flesh she can reach.
I was wondering if I should try and somehow bandage her to stop that? Any advice on treatment would be welcomed.
I really expected the shock to get to her and she not make it past mid-morning, But she has battle on all day.
She even escape her enclosure when I went in to check on her and took off across the garden back to the coop where the other girls have been locked up all day till I know what must have caused this.
Some background on this if you wish to read on.
I'm still baffled by what happened. I didn't see her at dusk yesterday afternoon when I locked the girls away as she was already on her roost in the shadows. She often puts herself to bed well before the other girls. But woke to this morning. I first assumed she must have been mauled by something i not sure what could have got into the property. My neighbour has a young daschund that I guess could at a squeeze get under our solid wooden fence in one spot of their side.
I only started to wonder if it be cannabilism later this morning because I all the missing feather, but there are not that many feathers in the coop. however I was surprised to notice yesterday morning when I let the girls out that this leghorn actually had all the feather at her tail area were roughed up, but all the girls this past year or so have had their feathers lose at their tail area often near molt time. The flock have always been very harmonious together the past three years.
We have a young 10 month old Lavender roster along with two hens that has been raised from a day old chicks( he was wrongly sexed at the time) with his surrogate sussex mum he has grown up with the girls and is generally gentle with them now he's older. Though I had noticed he's been trying to nab this particular girl of late trying to jump her and she's usually way too quick for him to catch her. So I assumed the feather roughing on her back might have been from his feet.
I'm still baffled as to how this happened.
Sorry for the gruesome pics, I first assumed the injury was as a result of somehow being mauled but could it be Cannibalism? I'd like advise on treatment as well.
Poor thing has lost most of her back muscle down to the rib bones. She must be in some sort of shock and a huge amount of pain though doesn't seem be reacting as such. I've moved her into her own pen. But she is desperate to get back to the other girls.
I've been spraying the wound with an equine iodine spray. Given her avian antibiotic in her water.
Problem is she now turns as is to preen herself and is pecking at the raw flesh she can reach.
I was wondering if I should try and somehow bandage her to stop that? Any advice on treatment would be welcomed.
I really expected the shock to get to her and she not make it past mid-morning, But she has battle on all day.
She even escape her enclosure when I went in to check on her and took off across the garden back to the coop where the other girls have been locked up all day till I know what must have caused this.
Some background on this if you wish to read on.
I'm still baffled by what happened. I didn't see her at dusk yesterday afternoon when I locked the girls away as she was already on her roost in the shadows. She often puts herself to bed well before the other girls. But woke to this morning. I first assumed she must have been mauled by something i not sure what could have got into the property. My neighbour has a young daschund that I guess could at a squeeze get under our solid wooden fence in one spot of their side.
I only started to wonder if it be cannabilism later this morning because I all the missing feather, but there are not that many feathers in the coop. however I was surprised to notice yesterday morning when I let the girls out that this leghorn actually had all the feather at her tail area were roughed up, but all the girls this past year or so have had their feathers lose at their tail area often near molt time. The flock have always been very harmonious together the past three years.
We have a young 10 month old Lavender roster along with two hens that has been raised from a day old chicks( he was wrongly sexed at the time) with his surrogate sussex mum he has grown up with the girls and is generally gentle with them now he's older. Though I had noticed he's been trying to nab this particular girl of late trying to jump her and she's usually way too quick for him to catch her. So I assumed the feather roughing on her back might have been from his feet.
I'm still baffled as to how this happened.
