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ive just found a yb 12 days old that has been pecked so badly that its skull is showing through the top of its head its back is also red raw where its been pecked, the yb seems bright enough in itself and is trying to feed is there anything i can treat the skull with to keep out infection? ive cleaned the wound with salt water and will see how the yb is over the next couple of hours? should i try and save the bird or should i reluctantly move it on debbie
seems you have done the right thing , get some iodine solution for wounds , it will keep the infection out , i had a yb scalped looked bad but its feathers have grown back
ive just found a yb 12 days old that has been pecked so badly that its skull is showing through the top of its head its back is also red raw where its been pecked, the yb seems bright enough in itself and is trying to feed is there anything i can treat the skull with to keep out infection? ive cleaned the wound with salt water and will see how the yb is over the next couple of hours? should i try and save the bird or should i reluctantly move it on debbie
the young bird will be just fine debbie read an article a couple of weeks bk same thing happened to a young bird then it comes out an wins big style.... he/she will be grand, no need move t on or to molly coddle it either
had a young bird meself this year scalped to bits just left it alone an was grand hav her training with no bother we see how she performs
Just leave it and let it heal on its own ,best to make sure it is keept completly dry it will heal better ,dust with some kind of healing powder ,i used ordinary flour on one and it worked a treat ATB les.
id make a witty reply but dont think you would get it , however if you read your post without the comma, that didn't put in you would see the funny side.
I had one scalped Debbie, although the wound soon healed and feathered over, the bird's development was slightly delayed. It was smaller and took longer to fly than the others. However, it is fine now and I can't tell it apart from the rest!
id make a witty reply but dont think you would get it , however if you read your post without the comma, that didn't put in you would see the funny side.
pmsl let he who is without sin cast the first stone,id think before you pull somebody over there punctuation you shouldnt leave full words out never mind a tiny little comma.....yis pete
this has hapened to me a number of times and alough the bird heals and looks the part ive never finnished a season with one let alone win only my opinion
Had this happen as a teenager, one and only time I let the birds nest on the loft floor, both nestlings got scalped, heads balooned to twice normal size, yes, the birds themselves seemed bright enough.
Man that was keeping me right at the time said that they were best killed and 'that they never turn out good', so I culled them.
I'm sorry to hear that these wounds are down to the skull - never seen anything that bad, but as long as you keep the wound antiseptic and sealed ( a cream of some sort ) the bird will do all the repair work: new skin will grow out from the sides of the wound over the bone, and feathers will grow from the new skin. Hope all goes well.
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