Unfortunately, I felt the need to have a kidney stone today, so I wasn't home for all this. My mom bought my son his pheasants since the ER trip made it so I couldn't go get them. The male and one of the females have bleeding head injuries from flushing against the cage. I walked my son through stopping the bleeding with flour on the phone and as soon as I got home, we set everyone up in quail cages with low chicken wire or plastic mesh roofs to prevent reinjury. No one is currently bleeding, and the two with injuries are in separate cages from everyone else. Do I need to get some type of antibiotic ointment to keep on them until they are healed? The weather is warm now and I don't want to have issues with flies or whatever laying eggs in the wounds or infection setting in. Otherwise, they appear healthy, and they are very active and strong. The injured female laid an egg in my mom's car on the way here, haha. I plan to put Nutri-Drench in all of their waters tomorrow.
So...anything else I should add for stress and being in tiny pens right now? And what should I do with the injuries? I plan to keep them separated until they heal and while I build their flight pen. Thanks for any advice, we haven't had pheasants before. They do not appear to be full grown (Or it's possible they have been kept in small pens, none of them have full tail feathers.), but they are laying. I *think* they may have been hatched in October 2018.
So...anything else I should add for stress and being in tiny pens right now? And what should I do with the injuries? I plan to keep them separated until they heal and while I build their flight pen. Thanks for any advice, we haven't had pheasants before. They do not appear to be full grown (Or it's possible they have been kept in small pens, none of them have full tail feathers.), but they are laying. I *think* they may have been hatched in October 2018.
