Roosters tore up the dominate hen GRAPHIC

[Barnyard]

I don't think I would use the supper glue, JMHO...... Super glue tends to close the wound up and seal in infection and doesn't allow it to drain. I would leave the skin like you have it if it is laying flat. Keep it cleaned with Betadine, not peroxide, and keep Neosporin (without pain relief) on it. I think your girl will be just fine. As for the rooster's...you can keep them and give them one more try. If this happened again, you may want to consider getting ride of all of them but 1. I hope your girl pulls through ok.




ETA: Because I can't spell

 

[Barnyard]

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If you intend to ever eat this hen don;t use the Blue Kote...apparently you are not supposed to eat an animal that has been treated with it. Anyone that can confirm?

I don't like using the Blue Kote either

it seems to me that this gives the other chickens something to peck at. Unless, you stop using it before you put her back with the flock, then it would be ok I guess...

 

[Warfrost]

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I would not use peroxide at all. Peroxide kills healthy tissue. I think your best best is to keep the wound clean with clean water and maybe apply some neosporin. I had a hen that was much, much more badly torn up(by an asiatic hen that we later ate because of her viciousness) and all I applied was a thin layer of neosporin. I cleaned it daily for 3 days and applied fresh neosprin. After the third day I did not mess with the wound anymore, and she has made a full recovery, with the exception of very little remaining comb.

 

[rmc85]

Just a little update.

She seems to be eating and drinking fine. I left her confined in a large dog crate all day today except for 30 mins prior to dusk. I let her out to walk around and she was acting normal. She was shaking her head a little more than average, but I can understand that. She even plopped and egg down in the back of the crate this morning.

I tried to clean the wound a little more tonight and it didnt seem to really bother her.

Fingers crossed!

 

[Barnyard]

WOOHOO!!! I am glad she is doing ok. A few more day's and she should be ready to go back with the flock. Goodjob!!

 

[Tala]

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I don't *have* Blue Kote brand product, but I have Pad Kote which seems to be essentially the same thing. It's isopropyl alcohol, gentian violet, brilliant green, cod liver oil, cade oil, balsam peru, tannic acid, terpentine. All of that stuff is kinda "old school" medicine, and even though it says "not for human use" --- lets face it, I've gotten it all over me when applying it on the dog and I haven't died yet.
I don't think it would hurt to eat a bird later that had some applied to it's skin in the past. At least I wouldn't be afraid of it.


I prefer to use saline flushes intead of hydrogen peroxide. H202 is a serious oxidizer and it actually destroys skin. I also prefer to leave the wound open so it can get air and drain.

Glad to hear the hen is doing well!!

 

[Cetawin]

Just keep it cleaned out with a good sterile saline solution or betadine, keep neosporin WITHOUT pain reliver on it and she will heal up fine. Do not put peroxide on the area because it kills good tissue and do not use superglue on her head not to mention it burns like the dickens.

Are you sure roosters did this? If she was so far away from the chickens and in a place they have never been, I would look for a predator. I have a dominant girl too and there is nothing wrong with that whatsoever. Your girl will be fine when she is healed up.