Neck skin missing on young chicken after attack

[Paladin]

So, the skin was actually missing on her too. I am concerned about how moist we need to keep the area to encourage healing. Thanks for the information, it's encouraging.

 

[threehorses]

Just as moist as a little antibiotic ointment will do. Honestly, I had a bird missing both skin and muscle and she was dry and healed.

 

[Paladin]

Oh, thanks, that's good to hear. She seems to have a light yellowish membrane (for lack of a better word) that developed over most of the non-skin area and I figured if it covers it all then I don't necessarily need to keep subjecting her to my smearing stuff on her sore area all the time. I thought if it looked relatively healthy I'd try just dripping e-oil on it which will help with healing and will give it a 'moist' coating too. I appreciate your comments, I hope you know.

 

[jcoleman13]

My poopsie was singled out and pecked to within an inch of her life. All skin was gone from head to shoulders and her rear end was ripped apart.first thought was put her down but she seemed alert and eating ect. I separated her and in. 6 weeks u never knew. Now shes one of my best layers

 

[Kayresinmo]

I'm new to this forum, but you guys have great advice so I'm looking for help with one of our young (maybe 3 or 4 month old) chickens. It is probably a famale black astrolorp cross.
A creature(s), likely foxes, got into our chick pen night before last and killed or carried off several but we found this gal running around outside with about a third of her neck skin simply missing. I'm guessing someone had a bite of skin and she got away, leaving them with the skin. I've pulled skin back together before, after hawk attacks, but this is just missing and there isn't enough left to pull and cover the muscle tissue showing on the back of her neck. About a third to half the skin is gone in a patch from the back of her comb to her shoulders (maybe 1 1/2" wide and 3" long). The muscle tissue is intact and there doesn't appear to have been much bleeding.
Initially, I applied good old 'wound powder' to the area, not being sure how to clean something like that. Later, after it was obvious she was not otherwise damaged, she felt well, and she was not in shock I tried to look at it more closely. The wound looked clean, so I clipped away the feathers that were sticking to the open area, applied a liberal coating of vitamin E oil, figuring something needed to keep the tissue from drying out, and took a non-stick gauze pad and smeared it with triple antibiotic ointment and used it to cover most of the open area, trying to pull the skin up as much as possible using masking tape (which I've found works well on chickens and comes off readily when you want it to). She's not very keen on the bandaging arrangement, but she's not pulling it off, either.
I don't know whether to use some sort of anitibiotic in her food or water. Is there any hope for some kind of healing, since there's no skin there? I don't know how it can possibly heal - skin doesn't spontaneously regenerate over that large an area, does it? I considered trying to stitch it, but there just isn't enough to bring to even an inch apart. She does not, and has not, shown any sign of discomfort and she'd like to be outside with her siblings.
Naturally, we're keeping her in the house in a box with paper we can change often to keep anything from getting dirty. She's eating and drinking fine and is perky and chatty.
Sorry for the length, but I wanted to give helpful people as much information as I could. Any suggestions would be very appreciated. She's such a plucky gal I would love to see her pull through somehow.

Mine was just attached by a dog, she has control of her neck, I can see inside her body from the back of her neck, she is eating worms and drinking, this is 2nd time in a month for her, have her inside in playpen.