My roo has a torn wattle from fighting, advice?

[distincthead]

My big blue Orps were fighting yesterday and one of them got a 3/4" tear on the outer edge of his wattle. It bled surprisingly little and I put antibiotic ointment on it when they were roosting last night and this AM. It's black-ish from clotted blood and the torn bit looks like it's shriveling up - all in all I'd say I should leave it be, it doesn't look bad from a medical perspective. But just in case I'm missing anything, should I snip it off? I'd rather not, since it's clotted, likely healing and re-opening it might present a problem for opportunistic bacteria.

As a rooster, he is of course acting just fine and dandy and doesn't seem to care.

EDIT: As of a few mins ago, he's got another nice chunk ripped out of the same wattle. I put the offender in the coop by himself. Methinks it's time for a bachelor coop or a pot o' soup.

Do alpha roosters break up fights? My alpha was seemingly trying to stop the instigator (two betas fighting). They are too evenly matched and will spend all day together getting along, and fight for 5 to 10 minutes until they're completely exhausted, which doesn't take long with 13lb roos.

 

[couuntrygirl13]

Keep putting neosporin on it.

 

[centrarchid]

Leave it alone.

Alpha can attack subordinates fighting when between members of same flock. Normally it is to suppress aggression between two hens. A multiple rooster setting is artificial but likely involves same mind set when dominant attacks combatants. I do not understand how dominant roster would benefit from engaging combatants.

 

[distincthead]

Yeah I don't understand how he would benefit either. Sometimes he just rounds up the hens and scoots them way to a safer(?) place. They're odd.

 

[boyswillbeboys]

I had that happen to one of my hens once, but once she stopped bleeding, I haven't been able to notice which one it is now (12 white leghorns, I can't tell them apart, I've had them a year, and am just starting to tell the 7 brown ones apart, and they look different from eachother.)