Urgent:My chicks are injured

[Nicanor]

Hello. We rear free-range chickens.Yesterday as our custom, we close the chicken coop for the night. The smaller chicken enters in to their own coop and the grown up into their own. However, we released new young chicks to the background.We then forgot that the newbies would not know the culture .When it came to going back to the coops, they entered into the grown-up coops, only for us to find them at morning injured at their heads.One of them eye was injured a bit. I will also post their homes. I later disinfected their wounds and separated all the newbies as you can see below.What else should I do to improve their recovery?

 

[Debbie292d]

Oh my, poor things!

I later disinfected their wounds and separated all the newbies as you can see below.

I would put something on their wounds like either triple antibiotic ointment or Blue-Kote. The latter will keep the red from showing and prevent picking.

I'd also get them some poultry vitamins to put in their water. A vitamin boost would help with healing too. Not sure what you have there, but here we have Poultry Cell and Nutri-Drench, the two most commonly used and that go in their water, but anything that says "poultry vitamins" should work.

The one who got hurt in the eye, could you rinse it out with some saline solution? Hopefully, the eyeball itself isn't damaged. You can put some of that antibiotic ointment in the eye, too, unless you have some Terramycin. Either will stop any infection that might be starting. I'd do that two to three times per day for a few days until it looks healed.

 

[Crazy Chicken Keeper]

The one who got hurt in the eye, could you rinse it out with some saline solution? Hopefully, the eyeball itself isn't damaged.

Yes this is a good idea.I'd treat the wounds with iodene or betadine, bandage them, and seperate them in a different coop. I has a chicken attacked by a dog once both her eyes went blind and the dog ate her a month later, but I had another one that got one eye blinded, a Barred Rock Araucana cross and she survived until I sold her and she lived like a normal chicken. The eye wound is what I would be most worried about young chooks skin heals rapidly.

 

[Eggcessive]

Since you are in Kenya, you may or may nit be able to get antibiotic ointment. You can rinse their wounds and the injured eye with normal saline or homemade saline. Recipe below. If you have disinfectant such as povidone iodine or chlorhexidene, you could put a drop of that on the wound and coat it with petroleum jelly/vaseline or coconut oil. Do this twice a day, but do not put the disinfectant in the eye, just saline. To make homemade saline add 2 tsp or 9 grams of table salt to a liter of water. Bring it to a boil, and let it cool before storing in a clean container. Hopefully the chickens will heal. Usually to integrate new chickens, it should be done gradually. I keep new chickens in the coop 24/7 before letting them outside, because they then know where they sleep at night and will return.

 

[Nicanor]

It's healing .
God is Faithful

 

[Eggcessive]

Thanks for the update. I hope they continue to get better.

 

[Crazy Chicken Keeper]

Cool! That is awesome

 

[BoundlessLove]

It's healing .
God is Faithful

What an answer to prayer!