Please help! hen's breast is bare & bleeding! 😥

[Dancingwnature]

In the meantime, I'd put a little A&D ointment on the raw area.

I have Bag Balm, would that be ok?
She's really acting like it's driving her mad. She constantly digs at her feathers and skin all over.

 

[Dancingwnature]

UPDATE #2
02 Aug 2020​

RE:

My 1 yr old Barred Rock hen suddenly has no feathers on her whole breast area. The area is warm but not hot.

I just got her last month. I hold her and sit with her every day - how could I have missed this?? She's gentle and lovable, and my 1st and only chicken.​

Please someone, give me some guidance? I'll do anything it takes to make her feel better. I own my home and all its acreage, in Skagit Co. NW Washington state, in the mountains. State Route 20 has been detoured to my road. The noise is deafening. Could something like that be what's upsetting her? Then loneliness on top of that? Tonight, I finally got photos of her in the dark and I used a small LED light to really get a close up search of her feathers and skin. I couldn't find a bug on her to save my life!! She could be lonely and/or stressed.

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UPDATE
She's not eating enough, she sits with her wings lifted away from her sides as if she's hot and she sometimes pants like she's stressed or frustrated. She didn't lay an egg Saturday.
She's active: she ran to me and my assistant; she chased the Stellar's Jays away from the littlest birds so they could eat.

What can I do to ease her suffering quickly? Is there a product/medicine that can bring her some immediate relief?

 

[Malquid]

It sounds like it’s time for a vinegar bath. The trick to killing anything small like mites or bacteria is a ph change. Vinegar or acetic acid is 3.4 by itself. If you have 6 inches of water in the tub, try a quart of vinegar in the bath. Soak well. Whatever it is that’s bothering her is obviously very small and probably fragile in a mildly acidic environment.

 

[Malquid]

Hey you’re in Skagit, I’m in Bellingham at lake Samish. Hi neighbor

 

[Malquid]

For an antiseptic kill of bugs, straight vinegar will do it. I can’t imagine it hurting the skin. Think of taking a shot of vinegar. That’s what the bug will feel. If things go haywire it will immediately nuetralize in the sink with water

 

[Dancingwnature]

For an antiseptic kill of bugs, straight vinegar will do it. I can’t imagine it hurting the skin. Think of taking a shot of vinegar. That’s what the bug will feel. If things go haywire it will immediately nuetralize in the sink with water

I'm sorry, I don't understand your last sentence. My fault: after being in America since University, there's still expressions that I have trouble with.

 

[Malquid]

One more thing. Epsome salts do the same thing but on the other end of the ph scale.
Vinegar is acidic, salt is caustic. Either way the bug wants roughly neutral ph of 7

Vinegar lowers the ph and salt increases it. Anything you can do to take the bug out it’s ph range should do it

 

[Malquid]

I'm sorry, I don't understand your last sentence. My fault: after being in America since University, there's still expressions that I have trouble with.

I’m sorry. I meant to say if the vinegar bothers the chicken. Put it in water

 

[Dancingwnature]

I’m sorry. I meant to say if the vinegar bothers the chicken. Put it in water

Thank you for your help and your kind patience! Irish English is sometimes really different from American English. Thanks again, sir!

 

[Malquid]

Thank you for your help and your kind patience! Irish English is sometimes really different from American English. Thanks again, sir!

Youre doing great. Most Americans can’t speak proper English anymore