Possible need to cull a scapled pullet?

[Mirrium]

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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

 

[coach723]

I had a hen get scalped by flock mates once, her skull was visible. I flushed it out really well and covered it liberally with plain triple antibiotic ointment, reapplying as needed 2-3 times a day, to keep it covered in it and moist. I crated her in the run with the others so she would be less stressed, until it was healed enough that it wasn't going to get pecked at. I don't have a picture of it when it happened, but below is a picture about 5 weeks after, feathers are starting to grow. Once they were filled in you couldn't tell it happened. As long as there is no infection there is a good chance it will heal up. The scab may be very thick, and will slowly peel off from the edges in as it heals. I kept ointment on it even after the scab formed to keep it softer and try to prevent cracks. You can see on the bottom of the back of her comb where it was also damaged. That also healed up fine.

 

[Mirrium]

I had a hen get scalped by flock mates once, her skull was visible. I flushed it out really well and covered it liberally with plain triple antibiotic ointment, reapplying as needed 2-3 times a day, to keep it covered in it and moist. I crated her in the run with the others so she would be less stressed, until it was healed enough that it wasn't going to get pecked at. I don't have a picture of it when it happened, but below is a picture about 5 weeks after, feathers are starting to grow. Once they were filled in you couldn't tell it happened. As long as there is no infection there is a good chance it will heal up. The scab may be very thick, and will slowly peel off from the edges in as it heals. I kept ointment on it even after the scab formed to keep it softer and try to prevent cracks. You can see on the bottom of the back of her comb where it was also damaged. That also healed up fine.
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Thank you so much for your help I will look into ointments, are there any specific ones youd recommend? Also did your bird also suffer from a wobble after the incident and lose balance or not really?
Mine keeps wobbling her head around a lot and ends up sleeping with her beak on the ground, she's also had a hard time eating but I can't yet tell if it's from shock still or a brain issue.

 

[coach723]

I don't recall any wobbling, it's been a few years. You can give a b complex or super b complex, 1/2 of one daily. Human ones, any brand. It's possible that yours may have concussion or other brain injury, I would give it some time and see if that improves. You may need to hand feed or help her until she can do it on her own. Make sure she's hydrated.

 

[Strawberry74]

Do you have any Alushield? You can get it at most farm stores. It's a miracle worker!

 

[Mirrium]

I don't recall any wobbling, it's been a few years. You can give a b complex or super b complex, 1/2 of one daily. Human ones, any brand. It's possible that yours may have concussion or other brain injury, I would give it some time and see if that improves. You may need to hand feed or help her until she can do it on her own. Make sure she's hydrated.

I'll definitely do that thank you for your advice, I hand fed her last night after I sent the last message but she's super slow to respond to it only seeming to realise there's food if I leaned her neck up normally, otherwise she'd just sit there with the food in her mouth and of the food I did feed her, most of it just came back out when she shook her head. (I felt her crop so I know she at least got some of it)

 

[Mirrium]

Do you have any Alushield? You can get it at most farm stores. It's a miracle worker!

I've never heard of Alushield but I can definitely look into it! Is that the ointment that Coach mentioned?

 

[Strawberry74]

I've never heard of Alushield but I can definitely look into it! Is that the ointment that Coach mentioned?

It's like a spray Band-Aid. It's silver and it's got really good healing properties.

Also I would try feeding her mashed up egg yolk and yogurt for probiotics. It might be easier for her to eat and also really enticing and smell yummy. How old is she?

 

[Strawberry74]

I've used it on chickens potbelly pigs and goats with great success.

I believe vitamin B's were mentioned as a appetite enhancer. You could also put poultry vitamins in her water or in a pinch apple juice in her water is a quick sugar boost which will help with their energy level.

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[WingItRanch]

Alushield is intended for minor scrapes. This would is too open and deep. As Coach said, use regular ointment to keep it moist. Think neosporin type but make sure you don't get the kind with pain killer in it.