Wing clipping and nipped too much!

[stormylady]

I was clipping my birds wings this morning and clipped a little too close and snipped off the tip of one of my poor babies flappers ( the very tip ) it did bleed pretty good for a couple of mins. I sprayed it down with vetericin and covered it with antibiotic cream. Is there anything else I should do? I know that some chickens have way worse injuries than this sometimes but I still feel horrible that I inflicked it on her. What exactly are blood feathers? I have clipped them many times in the past but this is the first time I clipped them and one bled. Thanks Sandy

 

[SaraFL]

Is it a feather that's bleeding, or her skin?

 

[ReikiStar]

I would keep a septic powder like QuikStop on hand if you regularly clip their wings. We had a rooster grab one of our pullets through a netting and he broke off some of her blood feathers. We just put QuikStop on them to prevent any further bleeding or infection and she's fine.

 

[stormylady]

Just came back in from giving her another good once over and it was two feathers and yes they were bleeding it has stopped now. I must have really freaked myself out and thought it was the wing tip I cut off, but it was 2 blood feathers together making it look like both sides of the wing bone. Since it was two blood feathers will they grow back next molt? I seriously thought i cut the cartiledge (sp) off . like when you eat a fried wing and the cart. comes of the end and you can see the two bones.

Yes I keep Quik stop on hand for the dogs, I guess I just wasn't thinking. Happens to me when I get upset, common sense flys out the window. I think pretty straight when it is somebody else or their animals but when it comes to mine I just flip.