Rooster with bad head injuries after a fight.

[SleepyDinos]

I came outside to check on my chickens this morning and collect eggs but halfway through I notice one of my roosters’ face was covered in blood. He has been getting in fight more often recently, I know of 2 former fight in the past 2 weeks that have been nasty, but the injuries had been nothing terrible. I was more worried about the roo that was fighting with Omelette (the injured one), Tater-Tot (his dad). So I had been keeping an eye on them. They had rarely fought before and when they did there was almost never any injuries. So I had thought that they might have been trying to settle something in the pecking order and I had let them do their thing. But now Omelette and Tater-Tot had gotten in a really bad right sometime between last night and early this morning. Omelette’s comb is caked in blood and his eye is sealed shut. He is 1 and 1/2 year old, a Favorelles/Orphington Mix. He has very rarely had any problems in the past. I tried soaking the eye and a little of the comb in a Luke warm water/hydrogen peroxide to see if I could get him to open his eye, but no luck, his comb started to bleed a little though so I left that alone. His beak is also a little messed up from the fight. Here are some photos (kinda graphic)

 

[McChooky]

I came outside to check on my chickens this morning and collect eggs but halfway through I notice one of my roosters’ face was covered in blood. He has been getting in fight more often recently, I know of 2 former fight in the past 2 weeks that have been nasty, but the injuries had been nothing terrible. I was more worried about the roo that was fighting with Omelette (the injured one), Tater-Tot (his dad). So I had been keeping an eye on them. They had rarely fought before and when they did there was almost never any injuries. So I had thought that they might have been trying to settle something in the pecking order and I had let them do their thing. But now Omelette and Tater-Tot had gotten in a really bad right sometime between last night and early this morning. Omelette’s comb is caked in blood and his eye is sealed shut. He is 1 and 1/2 year old, a Favorelles/Orphington Mix. He has very rarely had any problems in the past. I tried soaking the eye and a little of the comb in a Luke warm water/hydrogen peroxide to see if I could get him to open his eye, but no luck, his comb started to bleed a little though so I left that alone. His beak is also a little messed up from the fight. Here are some photos (kinda graphic)

Having more than one rooster can be chaotic is why many people have only one.Unless you're raising several breeds and have lots of hens you don't need more than one .He needs to be separated .

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

I came outside to check on my chickens this morning and collect eggs but halfway through I notice one of my roosters’ face was covered in blood. He has been getting in fight more often recently, I know of 2 former fight in the past 2 weeks that have been nasty, but the injuries had been nothing terrible. I was more worried about the roo that was fighting with Omelette (the injured one), Tater-Tot (his dad). So I had been keeping an eye on them. They had rarely fought before and when they did there was almost never any injuries. So I had thought that they might have been trying to settle something in the pecking order and I had let them do their thing. But now Omelette and Tater-Tot had gotten in a really bad right sometime between last night and early this morning. Omelette’s comb is caked in blood and his eye is sealed shut. He is 1 and 1/2 year old, a Favorelles/Orphington Mix. He has very rarely had any problems in the past. I tried soaking the eye and a little of the comb in a Luke warm water/hydrogen peroxide to see if I could get him to open his eye, but no luck, his comb started to bleed a little though so I left that alone. His beak is also a little messed up from the fight. Here are some photos (kinda graphic)

You should isolate him until his wounds heal, and maybe consider re homing him or getting more hens. Could also be a territorial fight. How much space do they have, and how many girls between the two?

 

[SleepyDinos]

they have ten - 15 hens for each rooster, planning on culling his dad though so we can continue his bloodline for my FFA project without as much trouble. Omelette is doing better now, eyes are open and is eating. I couldn’t get a good photo because he was mad at me for putting vetricyn on his comb.

 

[Maryb Heisner]

I came outside to check on my chickens this morning and collect eggs but halfway through I notice one of my roosters’ face was covered in blood. He has been getting in fight more often recently, I know of 2 former fight in the past 2 weeks that have been nasty, but the injuries had been nothing terrible. I was more worried about the roo that was fighting with Omelette (the injured one), Tater-Tot (his dad). So I had been keeping an eye on them. They had rarely fought before and when they did there was almost never any injuries. So I had thought that they might have been trying to settle something in the pecking order and I had let them do their thing. But now Omelette and Tater-Tot had gotten in a really bad right sometime between last night and early this morning. Omelette’s comb is caked in blood and his eye is sealed shut. He is 1 and 1/2 year old, a Favorelles/Orphington Mix. He has very rarely had any problems in the past. I tried soaking the eye and a little of the comb in a Luke warm water/hydrogen peroxide to see if I could get him to open his eye, but no luck, his comb started to bleed a little though so I left that alone. His beak is also a little messed up from the fight. Here are some photos (kinda graphic)

 

[Maryb Heisner]

Did this one heal? If so, how did you treat it?

 

[SleepyDinos]

Did this one heal? If so, how did you treat it?

Yeah! He healed very well! I washed his comb with a warm wet paper towel, I think triple antibiotic or vaseline, and vetericyn on it for the first few days, but I didn't really touch his eye because I didn't want to make it worse. After ~5 days his eye opened back up and has vision in both eyes. I stopped treating him then because it was stressing him out and sometimes reopening scabs. His beak is still growing back but is doing pretty good. We did cull most the other roosters, and Omelette seemed to heal quicker once we did. Part of his comb issue was also because it hit -40 for a night or two and -20s for the next two weeks and he had really bad frostbite that was being hidden by the dried blood from when he got attacked.