Okay, okay, trying not to panic, SO. I go out to check on my flock just now, and I notice I'm one short of six, my normal total. I go in and find one of my two Polish hiding in a corner with a bloodied head and missing feathers! I look around the pen -- his feathers are in there -- but I don't know what happened. Failed predator, other chook attacked, I don't know. Patch about the size of a nickel ripped CLEAN off, barbs and all.
After a little chick-chase, I take him in. After a short ordeal where he lept from my arms and hid behind the oven >>, I get him in the bathroom and washed off, apply Neosporin to the injured area, and put him in a separate cage inside with food and water by himself.
Of course. The vaulted skulled breeds always get the head wounds -_-. Not to be too graphic, but the patch is ripped clean off, and there IS still flesh, but, I mean, it's pretty much his brain there.
What do I do from here? Any recommended course of action? He's about six or seven weeks old, and as of right now appears to be acting fairly normal (eating, drinking, pooping normally).
Thanks!
After a little chick-chase, I take him in. After a short ordeal where he lept from my arms and hid behind the oven >>, I get him in the bathroom and washed off, apply Neosporin to the injured area, and put him in a separate cage inside with food and water by himself.
Of course. The vaulted skulled breeds always get the head wounds -_-. Not to be too graphic, but the patch is ripped clean off, and there IS still flesh, but, I mean, it's pretty much his brain there.
What do I do from here? Any recommended course of action? He's about six or seven weeks old, and as of right now appears to be acting fairly normal (eating, drinking, pooping normally).
Thanks!
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