Mystery injury from flock members

[Hollybb31]

When cleaning our coop today, we found these bloody roosting bars. We examined all 15 of our chickens and found one chicken with some abdominal blood. Most of what you see in the photo here is where my husband has used the wound spray. The wound itself is relatively small but caused an awful lot of bleeding and it looks like she hopped from one roost bar to another. This chicken in particular seems to be bullied by everyone. She’s very passive, very docile. We often call her our special needs chicken. In the yard the flock seems to stick close together, but she is always wandering alone. She’s over a year old and we don’t think she’s ever laid an egg. (We have a camera on the nesting boxes). We can’t figure out how the wound is on her abdomen? Nothing on her head back or sides. Thoughts on this? Note: they only sleep in the coop nothing else. They are out, free ranging dawn to dusk.

 

[Eggcessive]

It is hard to pinpoint the wound in the picture. Is it near her crop or breast bone or farther down? How long is it? I would clean it with Hibiclens chlorhexidene and water, and apply some plain antibiotic ointment twice a day. Chickens will tend to peck at a red or bleeding wound. A missing blood feather can bleed quite a bit. She may need to be placed in a wire drpog crate with food and water near the others while she heals. If the wound is not too obvious when feathers dry, they may not notice it. I have had good luck using BluKote wound spray to hide the red wounds. But let it heal a bit before using that if you chose to use it, and then make sure they do not peck at her with the BluKote.