Mirrium
Chirping
- Mar 19, 2025
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Hey everyone sorry its been a while since I've been around, we have a new batch of chickens and with a new batches comes new problems.
We had an incident yesterday with one of our birds in the run getting scalped (we assume by the other chickens since we have a camera on the coop and saw no predators). The birds were all perfectly fine when I went to feed them at 8am because that's when I do my flock checks but by 10am we saw a gruesome injury on one of our birds. We heard to warning calls or anything during this time but she somehow went from normal bird to scalped in 2 hours.
We brought her inside and are periodically giving her chicken friendly disinfectants as well as anti-fungal. She's switching a lot between full of energy chirping and running around to so tired she can barely stand so I wanted to get people's thoughts, I'm really not sure if she'll make it or what to do with her if not. Any info at all is greatly appreciated.
After first discovering the chick ^
After cleaning the wound ^
I don't have any pictures from today but it has scabbed over around the edges
Hey everyone sorry its been a while since I've been around, we have a new batch of chickens and with a new batches comes new problems.
We had an incident yesterday with one of our birds in the run getting scalped (we assume by the other chickens since we have a camera on the coop and saw no predators). The birds were all perfectly fine when I went to feed them at 8am because that's when I do my flock checks but by 10am we saw a gruesome injury on one of our birds. We heard to warning calls or anything during this time but she somehow went from normal bird to scalped in 2 hours.
We brought her inside and are periodically giving her chicken friendly disinfectants as well as anti-fungal. She's switching a lot between full of energy chirping and running around to so tired she can barely stand so I wanted to get people's thoughts, I'm really not sure if she'll make it or what to do with her if not. Any info at all is greatly appreciated.
After first discovering the chick ^
After cleaning the wound ^
I don't have any pictures from today but it has scabbed over around the edges