First time owning chickens unsure how to treat head injury 🤕

[Nevad]

First time owning chickens woke up to find one of my hands with a head injury we have only hands

 

[Chicken boy 1156]

Try and clean the wound first then separate her from the flock and put her in your house in a tiny coop or box with food and water so she doesn’t get infected or bug infested

It looks pretty bad she might not make it now that I’ve seen it again. Sorry

 

[RubelliteRose]

I just had a girl with a head wound just like that a few months ago. We cleaned it really well with saline and then slathered it in triple antibiotic 3 times a day for the first 2 weeks and then twice a day. We also gave her Aqua-mox for a week since we already had it. We kept her in 2 extra large dog crates lined with news papers in the house so she could heal without the others picking at it.
Her wound healed in about a month. The feathers grew back over part, but not all of skin. I will warn you, it will look worse before it looks better. After a month, we put Hazel back outside, separate but near the others. After a couple of days, we allowed her best friend to move in with her. We kept them separate for everyone else for just over 3 weeks and then started to allow them to have supervised time with the rest of the flock.
While Hazel's wound completely healed, unfortunately, her original wound was caused by a fellow flock member (we never did find out who and no other chicken has had anything even slightly similar happen) and within a couple of weeks of re-integration, she was attacked again. We decided that we could not ask her to go through another month of healing and ended up putting her down
It takes a lot of time, but chickens can heal from a wound down to the muscle like that. Do you know who or what caused the wound?

 

[Wyorp Rock]

First time owning chickens woke up to find one of my hands with a head injury we have only hands

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Looks like a pecking injury. Clean with saline or chlorhexidine, apply triple antibiotic ointment. It will take time for her to heal up, so she'll need to be protected for a while.

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