Raccoon attacked pigeon /pictures of wounds

[ChickenTenderKesha]

Here’s some pictures of the wings spread out, it’s just me so it’s hard to get better images of the skin where the missing feathers were

 

[ChickenTenderKesha]

So the raccoon wasn’t in the shed and there was only a juvenile pigeon (the same age as the one I’m caring for it looks like) where they had been nesting/where I saw the raccoon. There was a generous amount of feathers on the shed floor that weren’t there before and the horses haven’t been going in there much as their hay has been outside since the raccoon sighting.. we haven’t seen any pigeons flying around today either

I’ll check tomorrow and keep an eye out for more pigeons flying about but if it’s just the other juvenile left should I try to capture it and put it with the sibling I’m caring for already?

 

[ChickenTenderKesha]

I was going over the wounds this evening and came across this air sac?? I hadn’t noticed it before when handling the bird but it’s fairly large on a pigeon scale.. there’s no opening on that wound anymore that air would get into that I’m able to tell. I heard a suction noise like air is being sucked into something when I was first probing the area and moving the feathers away this evening. When I rub the featherless part of the sac with my finger it sounds as though I’m rubbing a blown up balloon. Hence me thinking it’s an air sac and not full of fluid..

Any other animal, if I had one available, I’d just grab a needle and see if it’s actually full air or not. What can I do, if anything can be done, for tonight and overall with this sac? Thank you in advance!

 

[glassdragonfly]

Looks like air under the skin. I have had to deflate chickens after a wound has healed. I used a needle without the syringe and found a spot clear of blood veins. Looks like the wound is healing nicely!

 

[glassdragonfly]

What did you decide about the other chick? have you seen the mother around?

 

[ChickenTenderKesha]

Looks like air under the skin. I have had to deflate chickens after a wound has healed. I used a needle without the syringe and found a spot clear of blood veins. Looks like the wound is healing nicely!

Alright so it’s nothing too big to worry about. I can just do the same and deflate it after getting a needle tomorrow then! Yeah it’s healing up a lot better and quicker than I thought actually! I must be doing something right thankfully

What did you decide about the other chick? have you seen the mother around?

Unfortunately no ther pigeons had been seen so I went and “collected” the second pigeon from the barn the other night. It’s content and healthy without a wound to be seen! They are both eating lots and just hanging out while the one’s open wounds heal up and I build them a mini coop inside my main chicken coop....I didn’t account for pigeon math when signing up for chickens, I think I need to go back to school or get some glasses because those fantails are looking mighty pretty right about now

I have another thread going that updates more on the two kids and some base ideas for their coop over here! Rescued a pigeon, next to no knowledge

 

[glassdragonfly]

Great! I'm glad you got the other one,pigeon math

 

[ChickenTenderKesha]

Photo of the one babies back! The wounds are all sealed and there have been pin feahers coming in for the past day or so now!

I still have both babies but I did see what I think was a pair on the barn’s roof the other day.. they took off when I went to take the horse’s fly mask off and I didn’t see them again. Still unable to tell if they are apart of the tagged ones missing from the nearest town, they just don’t hang around at all anymore

Edit: to fix spelling