Suspected cannibalism may spell the end for pullet

[rosiekitty94]

I have my pullets in a separate coop from my hens which I was just cleaning out today. When I was pulling the girls out, I noticed my blue andalusian was just lying down. Just the day before she was up on the waterer as usual trying to fly out the door. When I pulled her out, her entire vent area was covered in blood. I separated her immediately and finished cleaning up after the others. I noticed that all but two of the other pullets had minor scratches on their rears and a few feathers nipped off. There wasn't any blood though. I also separated the two without any scratches at all. I suspect they were the ones doing the picking.
After inspecting the andalusian more closely, I'm not feeling optimistic about her chances. Her actual vent seems mangled and out of shape. It's really sliced up. There's also a hole in the skin below the vent which is down to the meat. I gently wiped the blood and poo away with a warm, damp rag. I put some vaseline all over the area and tomorrow I'll clean the area out with some bactene and maybe use some neosporin and blu-kote. I don't think she can go to the bathroom though. She can't really stand either. She's just laying on an old burpie cloth on top of some fresh wood shavings. I was able to get her to drink some water through a syringe.
So, to prevent this in the future, I'm going to start mixing in some dry cat food for extra protein until I feel comfortable free ranging them. Is there any other kind of treatment I should give her? I'm going to try to get some activia or other live culture yogurt to see if it will help her stomach. I can post pictures if anyone needs them but I didn't want to disturb her again tonight. I can't believe this happened overnight like that. I feel awful!

 

[Sarevan]

I would check to see how close the roost bar is to the ground and to the other bar if one is next to it or below it. A twitching vent can be a target to be pecked especially if the feathers around it flutter.

For extra protein, I feed back the nest cacked eggs to them. Boiled, scrambled with the shells smashed to fine pieces as yours are pullets they don't need the shell. I also get a bag of the higher protein game bird feed and mix it in with regular feed. Some places sell smaller than the 40lb bags, 20 or even 15 lbs. Meal worms, earthworms (they dig up and go insane tug of wars over) small cut up pieces of left over chicken. I add poultry nutridrench to a small waterer the main waterer has acv in it.

You could try to put her in a sling, holes cut in the cloth so she can hang suspended with legs touching the ground and area cut out so she can poo. She sounds shocky, so keep her warm and quiet may be up to a day.

Check her vent area out very well, see if any damage inside vent, soak in warm bath, can add epsom salt and gently clean her hinney. Use the neosporin to help keep area moist and for healing. The bluekote may actually dry out mucus membranes and sting.

Hope she is feeling better.


I would also post pics when you are able, good for more advice and learning.