Scalped Peahen-need advice

[bdfive]

This has got to be the worst breeding season ever with the birds fighting. A 3 year old male has just about scalped my favorite peahen. He was so close to getting shot....I am so angry. What can I put on the large wound to keep flies off it? Usually they aren't a problem but with all the rain we've had they're terrible. I keep my pens super clean but they are still bad. Please answer ASAP. Thanks much.

 

[zazouse]

This has got to be the worst breeding season ever with the birds fighting. A 3 year old male has just about scalped my favorite peahen. He was so close to getting shot....I am so angry. What can I put on the large wound to keep flies off it? Usually they aren't a problem but with all the rain we've had they're terrible. I keep my pens super clean but they are still bad. Please answer ASAP. Thanks much.

Vaseline will work but it will get dirty, can you provide her a dark place to get or put a fan on her blowing enough to keep the flies away from her?

Sorry about your girl, some males are like that I heard, the breeder I got some of my birds from told me their Spalding male killed a couple of their hens before they finely stop giving him new hens.

 

[zazouse]

Agricultural lime is what I put in areas that are wet and drawing flies, never hurt a bird here and I have 100's

 

[Trefoil]

Blu coat or scarlet oil

 

[frenchblackcopper]

bdfive, I had the exact same thing happen to one of my best bssp hens when she was put in with the new Taupe male.I came home one night to find her in a corner with her head stuck thru a crack between the metal sight barriers to keep her head away so he couldn't pick on her.She was easily missing over 1 1/2" sq inches of skin on the backside of her neck. I could see her neckbone it was so bad. I took her inside and put her inside a large dog crate. This was maybe 2 months ago already and flies wasn't a problem but the wound was clean so I left it "as-is" because I knew if anything was put on it she would have been in terrible pain. She stayed in this crate for 3 weeks until I noticed she was trying to scratch at it. It had healed on it's own for the most part and now she is back in with Roadtrip whom she was with all last year. She has one very small spot maybe as big as a pencil left to heal now but I cannot believe how well it has healed and how good it looks.I think the trauma has caused her to not lay any eggs yet this season but regardless if she does or not I saved a very valuable hen.

 

[zazouse]

Poor girl,

I haven't never had a hen scalped but I have had a couple gosling scalped by over zealous young roosters, they healed fine on it's own but the weather was cooler and there were no flies to speak of so now one of them has a tiny tuff where the wound was but I love it cause he wanted to be my pet and I can pick him out of the group very easily

 

[bdfive]

Oh darn everyone that's responded to me. I answered most of your postings and see I did it wrong and it's not shown up. Don't have time to type it all out again now but will later. Thanks so much for the help. The Emerald Spalding peahen is doing ok and has had a fan on in that pen all day and I left it on tonight. I've not seen any flies bother the wound so haven't put anything on it yet. Frenchblackcopper mentioning "pain" made me apprehensive but one fly and I'll have to medicate the wound. More later.............. Thanks so much!!