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Thanks this will definetly help!I'm very sorry about your chicken.
Are the eyes intact? Or are they damaged also? There are many threads about chickens with missing beaks, you can search for them. They can sometimes adapt and do OK with some special care and considerations for their handicap. While she is healing, you will probably need to tube feed and get fluids in her, she's going to have a hard time getting enough on her own.
Good info on tube feeding here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/go-team-tube-feeding-updated-12-29-2019.805728/
If she recovers, then feeding her mash, her feed mixed with water to make a gruel, and raising feeders and waterers up some, can make it easier for her. If she still has any bottom beak then she can learn to scoop with that, if not some will learn to dunk their heads in it. She will likely always find it difficult or impossible to pick things up off the ground. I would start weighing her regularly (an inexpensive digital kitchen scale works well - walmart has them) to make sure she is taking enough in.
For the leg, below is attached a splinting manual, explains how to do various kinds of splinting. You can also use a chicken sling for periods to help take the weight off and keep her upright and comfortable, just supervise, you don't want her to freak out and hurt herself more. Examples below.
You can also use rolled up bath towels to help prop her up comfortably.
You can use plain neopsporin, or plain triple antibiotic ointment on her wounds.
I would watch for any signs of infection, pus, or bad odor.
If it comes to where you think you need to euthanize, I find this to be the simplest, quickest, most error proof way:
https://www.muranochickenfarm.com/2017/06/the-easiest-way-to-cull-chicken.html
