Ok, so we raise chickens for eggs and such. They have a pretty good size coop and all. I know there's always a pecking order and such, but I've never seen anything as bad as this one chicken. I think her wing is broken, she has NO tissue on her scalp. In fact, at first I thought I saw brain (but I didn't). So, any advice for anything to help the chicken out?
2006-08-07 15:42:32 · 5 answers · asked by Matt A 1 in Pets ➔ Birds
This chicken has a virus, insolated it immediately so others won't get affected.
2006-08-11 14:52:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think that it is so awesome that you have these chickens and care about one that is in need of your help. It's obvious that you love your schickens. ~big smile~
We have 7 schickens, (I like to call them schickens )..anyway, we have 3 roosters and 3 hens and 1 that is a toss-up. But, they give us eggs and we have names for all of them and they each have their own little personallities.
I'm thinkin' that some rooster...that is tryin' to mate is making the top of the head be so bald and raw. Sometimes rooster get so, hmmmmmm, how do I say this..get so passionate..into what they are doing that they don't pay much attention about what the poor little hen is going through. ACK!
Can you put her apart from the others to see if her feathers (and scalp) grow back? She won't mind being away from whoever is hurting her.
If you could give her a good dowsing of peroxide AT LEAST twice a day..that would be so much help too.
Spend some time just watching them and see how they get along with each other. There may be a rooster that is totally out of controll and needs to go somewhere else.
We got our schickens fairly young and from 3 different places. There was one rooster that killed one of the cute red hens trying to have his way with her and ended upkilling her the first 2 days that we had all of them. After that happened I was spending my days on the back deck doing all kinds of things but , really watching the pecking order. We had to let him go. He was a real bully!!! He went to a nice home that could cater to his problems...(( I made sure and still visit regularly)). I was lucky enough to have a friend of mine take him, and it is on the way into town. And he is doing fine. ...with geese and ducks and some hens in the chicken pen. He isn't allowed to go in there and they don't come out unless he is locked in the barn for a few hrs.
Good luck! I hope that you figure out what the problem is. This schicken is so lucky to have you for a human friend.
Bahck....bahck, bahckbahck! hahha ~wink,wink~
2006-08-08 01:22:19 · answer #2 · answered by oodlesoanimals 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She probably has a mental illness. No kidding, she may be retarded, chickens will kill the weakest link to keep their genetics strong. If so, you don't want chicks from her eggs. So unless she's a good producer and you are selling her unfertilized eggs or eating them, I agree with the first answerer. Her name is Teriaki.
2006-08-07 23:23:45 · answer #3 · answered by viewable m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put her into a smaller coop to heal. sometimes they pick on the ill or just bully the weak. or make her supper."fried chicken"
2006-08-07 22:50:33 · answer #4 · answered by Robert F 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take the poor thing to the vet already. please don't let it suffer.
2006-08-08 00:16:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋