Scalped Cockeral

[MotherOfPeepPeeps]

Conner is singing today. Chirping, trilling long songs and snuggling every chance her gets.

Yay! It sounds like he is on the road to recovery!

 

[HeiHeisMom]

Conner is already growing muscle and skin back on his neck area. It's amazing to watch these beautiful birds heal!
His eye is still there, but he is blind in it now, it appears dried up...
Don't know if Chooks are as amazing at healing eyes as they are muscle and skin. He already has two new feathers coming in.
Just amazing.
He's still singing when he visits for cuddles, and not sleeping as much. He's up and out of the brooder and roaming around the room where the brooder is kept.
I am concerned that as a cocCocke he is starting to see me as a chook instead of his provider...
Any experience advice out there?

He's taken up residence on my shoulder. He thinks he's a parrot..lol

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Their healing capacity is amazing. Not every handled rooster turns bad. Just keep an eye out for too forward behaviors and be prepared to push him back or block him as he starts to feel better.

 

[HeiHeisMom]

Their healing capacity is amazing. Not every handled rooster turns bad. Just keep an eye out for too forward behaviors and be prepared to push him back or block him as he starts to feel better.

He wants to preen me and has started getting beak to nose and chattering to me.
Not sure if that's good with a roo.
But he's barely six weeks old...

 

[blackandtan]

I’m so glad he recovered! I had that happen to a pheasant, they completely skinned him from the neck up, and he was very much alive, one of the worst things I’ve ever seen, all I could do is end his suffering immediately.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

Once he gets around the other chickens, he will probably stop that.
I would probably stop the beak to nose though

 

[HeiHeisMom]

Update on Conner:
One week ago baby Conner was attacked by older flock and we weren't sure he would live.
He's a happy singing boy now and has healed quite a bit.
Today was first contact with his own flock. We brought Bernadette in to visit as she's the sweetest Ranger.
Conner and Bernie have enjoyed visiting, she's a little wigged out that he has sleep terrors still, but she cuddled and preened him and coo trilled him back to sleep.
I'm thinking one more week before he gets to go outside, only because as his face heals it itches and he clawed himself near his bad eye and bled all over this morning. The eye is there, moving, he's blinking it, and the pupil is responding to light. We were so afraid he had lost the eye completely!
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One week of healing.

Bernadette

Bernie calming Conner down.
He fell asleep on my foot and woke with a screetching loud, shrill trill that lasted a good 6 seconds.
Hopefully he'll continue healing quickly and the trauma will subside so he can get to go back out to the coop.
He's becoming, very attached and clingy towards me.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

That sure is amazing.

 

[HeiHeisMom]

One week ago I found my 5 week old Cockerl, Conner, dying. He had half his face and the back of his head and neck pecked off.
I brought him inside, made him his own 'hospital room' and cleaned him up, have been doctoring wounds, etc.
For the first several days he wanted to be held, he was terrified all the time.
Now he sleeps with lights off in a room alone, but he has started a wierd thing this evening.
For the first time since I brought him in, we allowed one of his flock mates to come inside and have "chook time".
Since the Pullet came in Conner has been coming to me, climbing and onto my lap too poop, then getting back down!
Before, if he needed to poop he would get on the floor to poop and come back to my lap.
Is he marking me to keep her from coming up into my lap, or is he upset she us in and punishing me for allowing another chook inside?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I'm glad he is doing better!
I don't believe chickens have the thought process to mark someone. He may be a bit confused since you brought Bernie in and changed up his routine a little.
I think that once she is with him for a few days he will become more interested in palling around with her. He's still very young and cockerels can be slightly clingy anyway. Give him a little time to bond with her.