Introducing 8 week old chicken with full grown = fight?i have a 8 week old young rooster that i had incubated myself. it was my first time trying this and i did 3 test eggs and one hatched. i have been slowly introducing it into the flock for an hour or two about every other day. and of course they would have a little pecking but no damage. So i decided to introduce him at night and left him there to live with the flock. He has been in there for 3 days and when i went to check on him today, one of the chickens had attacked him. they plucked his feathers around his left side wing, and had broken skin on the joint of his wing. He still acts normal, and doesnt seem too affected by it except that it was hiding from the others. i have isolated it, in hopes that it will heal better this way. any suggestions on what i could do to help it heal? my main concern is that the flys will lay eggs on him and when they hatch they will kill him. (happened to a family pet duck several years ago) Plan so far is that i will apply some neosporin or vasoline to help keep the wound covered. any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated! I Would hate to have my first hatched chick die from a fellow chicken attack.
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