What should I put on chick to hide bloody cut to avoid pecking?

[sally4500]

HI, my polish has a few feathers broken off her top hat that are bloody. I cleaned her up and put bagbalm on it. I remember reading about something you can put on a cut to mask the blood so it won't cause pecking. I think it was colored to hide the red.

Can anyone tell me what it is? Thanks.

 

[SpringChickens]

If its a dark colored bird, you can use blue kote. It does seem to make pecking worse on light colored birds, so be careful of that.

 

[paddock36]

I also use BlueKote, although one day when I wasn't home my DH found one of my chicks that was bleeding from being pecked by another chick and when I got home he told me he put medicine on the chick. I asked him what he put on it because I couldn't find the Blue Kote and as it turns out he put liquid vitamins on it, not realizing that it wasn't BlueKote. Believe it or not it worked.

 

[Mervin]

I've used Blue-Kote on Barred Rocks with success. I don't have any "light" colored birds per se, but it did work on the Rocks. With a light-colored bird, I would probably used it. I would probably just apply it very liberally over a wide area. I would go well beyond the wound itself. The stained feathers will grow out eventually. My BR, two months later, still has a lot of purple feathers from it. I think if I hadn't been so stingy the first time, I may not have had to reapply it to a wider area.

 

[sally4500]

Yes, that is the name of what I was thinking of. Thanks. Her top hat is white, but I will give it a try if no one else chimes in.

 

[Rozzie]

I'd glop it up with a lot of Vaseline. They "really" don't like to get a beak full of that!