Separating an injury

[Gwyndarlin]

okay

I just got four two week old chicks two days ago and have them in my brooder with all of the fixin's

Today I discovered one of them had obviously been injured by another chick. She has a lot of feathers missing an bleeding from the thin little flap of wing between her back and wing. I cleaned it but don't want her in the brooder until she gets to healing.
I have her seperated on the other side of my brooder pen with heat and food and water but she keeps trying to fly out. The top is covered with wire but I'm afraid she will injure herself more if she keeps trying to escape? She keeps hitting her head on the wire.

Any recommendations that aren't culling?

 

[4 ever Orpington]

okay

I just got four two week old chicks two days ago and have them in my brooder with all of the fixin's

Today I discovered one of them had obviously been injured by another chick. She has a lot of feathers missing an bleeding from the thin little flap of wing between her back and wing. I cleaned it but don't want her in the brooder until she gets to healing.
I have her seperated on the other side of my brooder pen with heat and food and water but she keeps trying to fly out. The top is covered with wire but I'm afraid she will injure herself more if she keeps trying to escape? She keeps hitting her head on the wire.

Any recommendations that aren't culling?

 

[rebrascora]

You have to weigh up the risks and decide whether it is safer to leave the chick in with the other one and risk further injury or isolate and risk it killing itself trying to get out.
What have you divided the brooder with. If it is a solid partition, then maybe consider using wire instead so that it can still see the other one or perhaps give it a mirror and a small cuddly toy and see if that helps it settle. The longer you isolate it, the harder it will be to reintegrate and the greater risk there is of it getting injured again, so better to keep it with the others if you can.