What happened to this girl? Bleeding so much

[Ilovechickens2525]

I was in the run with them, she was just coming out of the coop and I heard her freak out. I saw blood on her beak and splattered on her. I can’t figure out what must have happened? It’s a lot of blood and doesn’t look like an isolated pecking sore. I can’t even tell exactly where the blood is coming from.

I’ve applied banixx twice and tried to apply pressure, I put her in a small kennel in the coop so they don’t bother her. Every time I checked on her still bleeding so I have her in and put cornstarch all over her comb. She’s been in for at least 15 min now and doesn’t seem to be bleeding so I’m hoping it’s finally stopped…

 

[DobieLover]

Someone may have ripped a chunk of her comb out. Combs and wattles bleed A LOT. It looks worse than it is.

I would now focus on getting the blood off of her feathers and face and clean her up very carefully so as not to disturb the new clot. I would keep her in the crate inside the coop for a day to give it plenty of time to scab over. You can use a q-tip to put tiny dots of blukote or some other disinfectant over the wound(s) without disrupting the scab. Then let her out and keep an eye on her.

Do you have lots of room in the coop and run for her to get away from whoever doesn't like her? Sometimes someone just gets in an unlucky shot and tears off a large enough piece that it bleeds profusely.
I'm glad that the bleeding seems to have stopped.

 

[Ilovechickens2525]

I have been spraying her with banixx, will that disinfect? How do I clean her? There’s blood all over her back. I am worried about giving her a bath or getting her too wet because it’s very cold here, -14 tomorrow before the windchill.

My coop is 80 sqft and I only have 9 chickens, they’ve been going out in the run everyday, they have tonnes of space in the run. They are only using the back half right now because there’s a bunch of snow in the front but it seemed to be going ok because they can go in the coop to get more space or out in the run.

She was in the coop with my one who is moulting, at first I thought she had pecked the poor moulting one who has been staying inside more. Then realized that she was actually the one who was hurt.

 

[Wyorp Rock]

The Banixx is fine to put on the comb. I agree, she may have cut it somehow or something.

I wouldn't give her a bath.

To get blood off Feathers, I'd use Peroxide. It will take most of the staining out and help dissolve some of the dried on sticky blood.

Glad you got it to stop bleeding. I've found eventually a comb or wattles will stop bleeding on their own, but it takes time. What often happens is the bird feels the blood running down the comb or face, shakes the head to get rid of that feeling and the wound opens back up, this is also where a lot of that blood splatter comes from, shaking the head.

 

[orelsi]

She might have gotten stuck in something and the violent pull to get free could have ripped part of the comb. It bleeds profusely. I've seen it happen to chickens stuck in fences. Is there something obvious that could trap her head like that? Fences? Wire? Slaces between planks?