Pecked Polish head- infected? Brain damage?

[murphynhazel12]

My 13 week old polish cockerels head has been pecked at pretty bad. All his feathers in one spot are gone and there was some blood.We cleaned him off and taped some gauze around his head yesterday to try and stop the pecking, but it has since come off multiple times and his head doesn't look amy better. I applied Neosporin this time and re bandaged as thoroughly as possible, but I'm worried about him. There's a weird dark greenish spot on one side of the wound. And he seems very sleepy, if you apply any pressure to his bald spot he starts to fall asleep.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

That doesn't look bad at all yet. Gives seen the skull pecked open. I would spray it with bluekote to hide the skin color and either trim his crest way down, or put it up in a pony tail. If he's with other breeds this may be a management issue.

 

[murphynhazel12]

That doesn't look bad at all yet. Gives seen the skull pecked open. I would spray it with bluekote to hide the skin color and either trim his crest way down, or put it up in a pony tail. If he's with other breeds this may be a management issue.

It's not actually a bad wound, I'm just worried about the potential of brain damage/bleeding because of the vaulted skull. We don't have blu kote bc we've heard it can actually be toxic, but I ordered alushield but it'll only get here Friday. He is with other breeds, but most are bantams (he's a standard) and also crested. The one I think is doing the most pecking is our mean partridge silkie cockerel...

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

It's not actually a bad wound, I'm just worried about the potential of brain damage/bleeding because of the vaulted skull. We don't have blu kote bc we've heard it can actually be toxic, but I ordered alushield but it'll only get here Friday. He is with other breeds, but most are bantams (he's a standard) and also crested. The one I think is doing the most pecking is our mean partridge silkie cockerel...

If he's truly vaulted than brain damage is a risk. It might be better to separate the cockerel. I had a silkie get brain damage and she acted slow and dumpy. So watch for those types of behavior. I've used bluekote for decades without problems beyond blue fingers. It hides the skin color. Chickens are attracted to red.