Please help. Predator attack and a sick acting Hen!

Yep, thats what i though but it is a good sign that she is pooping so i dont really think that the color matters. :)
I have no idea what we have in our fridge, lol, but I will try to get to TSC and Kroger before we go home tonight.
 
She seems fine. We got some Duramycin-10, some electrolytes/vitamins powder to mix in her water and some Vetericyn to spray on the cut. I'm not sure the spray feels good I sprayed a bit on it last night and she fidgeted and tried to get to it so maybe it just didn't feel good against the bare skin where I moved feathers or something.
She drinks fine but she isn't eating her food so her poo is awfully runny and mostly just liquid. Hopefully after I get the powder into her water tonight she may start eating. I've tried to feel her crop just to see if she had anything in there but she doesn't like that either so I just try to get her to eat what she will, which happens to be corn she likes that but she won't touch the food pellets they are fed.
 
Did you try bologna? Yogurt. Corn is not the best diet for her. Also, try adding a bit water to her feed and make a mash. You could add a bit of corn in it to entice her. My hens love oatmeal, too. Got to get her eating.
 
No, I couldn't get to the store last night. I will get some bologna and cheese and yogurt and make some oatmeal into a mash tonight. Is that a good idea? :) I'll also add the vitamins and stuff to her water as well.
 
Lol, yes and already she seems better. Her poo has been really runny. Like, all liquid and it was like egg white consistency but this morning I woke up and checked on her and she had laid a big huge pile of 'normal' looking poo because earlier it looked like snot with boogers or something.
I know this may be a bit gross but I had been so worried about that problem that when I saw that I nearly yelled for my mom. :) But that means she is eating and I even watched her eat some of her layer pellets. I got some plain yogurt so I'll make a little mash for her tonight if I can. :)
That's the good news.
Last night I took her out of her cage to spray some medication on her side and I noticed that she kept moving her neck and that there was a ring of neck feathers that stood out. So I moved them around and saw another cut. It was like a circle. Honestly, to me, since she moved as I was looking it pulled the skin and I thought it looked like her vent. Just saying, it didn't have a scab because it was on her neck so the blood just matted the feathers under it. I sprayed that well and I'll keep looking at it. It didn't look too deep which is a good thing so that means there was no nerve damage or anything. :) So all in all she should be on the last stretch of this race and soon shell be back out. :) Hopefully.
Thanks so much for all of the help chickflick. I will try to get a picture of her sometime soon. She definitely looks better, even the cut on her side isn't so ominous looking. :D
 
Lol, yes, I think my Dad is done with her in the house though. :D
We actually had to move her into our kitchen because it got cold and snowy so our dog had to take up the mudroom. Lol, I've been taking BIG pains to keep the bottom of her cage clean of any poop so it doesn't affect the clean, food-is-prepared-here atmosphere. Lol!
Yes, I'm completely relieved, I was worried that if she didn't start eating id have to maybe force feed or tube feed her or something and id hate to do that.
 

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