- Oct 13, 2017
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About 3 days ago my chickens got attacked by, I’m presuming, a group of coyotes while free ranging. 2 hens and 5 pullets are now missing and one of my pullets (assuming its a male but not 100%) survived and escaped and is now acting pretty sick/strange. He sleeps most of the day, but will only sleep standing up, he has wounds and dried blood around his neck but it doesn’t seem to be punctured or heavily injured, I noticed his head is a bit lopsided and out of shape, his jaw id slightly unaligned and one eye protrudes more than the other but its not out of socket or bulging or anything just a lil off, every movement he does is quite sparse and slow, and i don't think he's eaten since the incident which is probably from pain as he cant fully bend his neck down, i noticed this and i hand fed him a bit of water and immediately he drank a good amount so I’m assuming ill have to manually feed him for a few days if not weeks which i don’t mind. Im hoping hes just shaken up and his pain will go away as it doesnt seem like hes been biten too deep, but i also dont know if he has any neurological conditions either. He moves around pretty frequently so I think thats a good sign? I don’t want him to die, hes a super sweet little roo and was very lively before. Any suggestions?