Really painful injury from rooster flogging

[ChookieG]

Swedish Flower. I also have a female of this breed who is very docile.

Try Wyandottes too......I have two SLW Roos that were rescued a few months back ....really quiet and docile and rarely crows...they were siblings I got from a breeder and I specifically wanted 2 of the closest ones...she said they always hang out together...and they still are - in our run with 8 hens and a few chicks.

 

[raingarden]

I once had a Barred Rock sink his spur into my forearm. It would not heal or stop hurting and formed a marble-size growth/lump that looked like a tumor or something.. After months, I dug into the wound and found slivers of chicken spur still in there. After getting them out it healed.

 

[Shadrach]

It's a scratch. Make sure it bleeds and disinfect it with Chlorhexedine.

 

[SmiYa0126]

It's a scratch. Make sure it bleeds and disinfect it with Chlorhexedine.

Second that! If it didn't bleed you could get tetanus, tetanus can only survive in an area without oxygen. If that's your ankle the wound wouldn't be deep, it should have bled. Dang that stinker!

 

[User635240]

Second that! If it didn't bleed you could get tetanus, tetanus can only survive in an area without oxygen. If that's your ankle the wound wouldn't be deep, it should have bled. Dang that stinker!

It did bleed, and left a blood stain on my jeans. After putting Neosporin and a bandaid on it, it stopped bleeding. Is that OK? I did get a tetanus shot 3 yrs ago.

 

[User635240]

Try Wyandottes too......I have two SLW Roos that were rescued a few months back ....really quiet and docile and rarely crows...they were siblings I got from a breeder and I specifically wanted 2 of the closest ones...she said they always hang out together...and they still are - in our run with 8 hens and a few chicks.

Is SLW silver laced or splash laced? Which hatchery do you prefer?

 

[Tonyroo]

Where did you get your Swedish Flowers from?

I keep and breed Swedish flower hen and all the roosters from that project never behaved that way with me. They were all docile towards me but sometimes aggressive towards each other.

 

[SmiYa0126]

It did bleed, and left a blood stain on my jeans. After putting Neosporin and a bandaid on it, it stopped bleeding. Is that OK? I did get a tetanus shot 3 yrs ago.

That's good! You'll be ok. He may have have you a bone bruise. They take forever to heal.

 

[Coops Dad]

Pardner, you're asking medical advice on a chicken board. There may be doctors, PAs or nurses amongst us but none of them is your doctor. FWIW, your rooster's spurs hang under your rooster's butt and are coated with whatever your rooster traipsed through, plus whatever he dug off of the hens he mounted. That kind of scratch is nothing to take lightly, much less a puncture wound.

See a doc. Maybe get a shot. Maybe some oral antibiotics. I wouldn't risk it at all.

Also, kill that bird. Life is too short to endure an aggressive rooster.

 

[JubileeFarmer]

It did bleed, and left a blood stain on my jeans. After putting Neosporin and a bandaid on it, it stopped bleeding. Is that OK? I did get a tetanus shot 3 yrs ago.

Tetanus shots are recommended every ten years so you should be okay.