Best way to treat a coyote mauled roo

I had a trio of coyotes get into my coop last night and they managed to anialate my silkies, some ameracauna, my dutch mille fleur hen, and a few others on top of mauling my lavender ameracauna roo. We were able to shoot 2 of them, and wounded the third so he won`t be coming back. My poor roo is in pretty rough shape. He is not wanting to eat or drink, and is just sitting still with his eyes squeezed shut. He is missing alot of feathers, the skin is broke in a few places, but otherwise seems to be okay. I can`t find any bones that feel broke, or anything but it is hard to tell. I have him in a small dog crate in my home with access to food and water, but not sure what else to do for the poor boy. I am hoping he will pull through, but I just donot know. Any help would be appreciated!

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If you see a coyote shoot it, no matter how far away it is from your critters. This way you will always know that thier is one less coyote to kill your birds.

I have lost birds to canine maulings, and the tricky part is finding puncture wounds. These are very hard to locate in thick feathers and look small, but if lungs have been punctured, this can go bad very quickly.

I put honey on all visible wounds. I keep some homeopathic remedies on hand and give ARNICA immediately if I have it. Excellent for shock and soft tissue damage. Dissolve a tablet in water then give rooster a squirt.

Seems you are doing everything right and all you can do now is cross your fingers.

When my hen was in the same situation I isolated her and put her in a dim boxstall (it was summer and warm enough) in a crate so she couldn't flap around, and just fed and watered her (I had to force water her a couple of times until the shock dissipated). I put colloidal silver water on her wounds.

I agree that the most important things are hydration and infection control. Good luck!

I would also shoot any coyotes I could. I live on a small acreage surrounded by large acreages. They have PLENTY of space and food to sustain them outside of my coop and yard. There's no 'live and let live' rule around here where my pets and livestock are involved. Shoot them if they come around, as you did. Again, good luck. Sorry about your other losses.

I would mist the wounds with silver solution, had a badly infected Tom ( very bad open infected wounds), I misted it with silver 2 times a day for one week on day 2 it was looking much better also fed him 10cc once a day.

As for the coyotes, the ones around here are infected with canine distemper, they have caught or shot so many that have wondered into the city, the ones around me all look very sick.

A wash with colloidal silver or a chlorahexadine solution and then raw HONEY! Do not underestimate the healing properties of raw honey. My neighbour nursed a bantam back to health with a very nasty wound from a racoon and it survived. It was unbelievable the size and depth of the wound and how it healed. She treated it twice a day with honey.

Be sure to also check his vent once a day as his droppings make 'cake' given he's not moving around normally and this makes it difficult to eliminate if it builds up.

barryk wrote:If you see a coyote shoot it, no matter how far away it is from your critters. This way you will always know that thier is one less coyote to kill your birds.

precisely! Super well done said

It also wouldn't hurt to get a big dog that eats coyotes for breakfast! I have an anatolian shepherd... No coyote problems for me.. My mom used to have horizontal slabs on the bottom 3 feet of her chicken yard. It helps to keep predators from getting in the wire. They are pretty cheap/free if you get them from a small mill.. Just ask for the first cuts. I only have wire but it is welded wire and not chicken wire.. Keeps my young pup out (all pups will try to get em)..

Coyotes are plentiful enough if they show their face around here, they are dead as most everyone around here are tired of them killing their cats. I all for live and let live too but they should be mousing and eating pocket gophers, not cats and breaking into housed poultry and around here we don't care if more come they will be dead too, the only predator they have is us and when we pay 200+ dollars to fix your cats and have some lazy coyote take them, the coyote gets what it deserves. Good luck healing your bird.

Heather

Another simple predator solution is to put up a 2-strand electric fence with solar charger around the coop and yard. I strung the wires quite low so a coyote would get it in the nose if investigating. My chicken-obsessed border collie used to kill the odd chicken, but since I put the hotwire up, no losses. And, no need to shoot coyotes or tie up my crazy dog.

Get some of that electolyte replacement fluid from the drug store. (Used for babies... pedialyte or the no name brand.) I put this in the water for the first couple of days to help replace nutrients that he wasn't getting because he wasn't eating. I fed oatmeal (cooked) first with a spoon. Then he started eating a bit more and I mixed in some crumble with the oatmeal (like a mash). You could also add molasses to this for extra energy. The thing is to make sure that everything he takes in is packed with energy and nutrients for the first little while since he is eating so little. At first I had to make sure he was getting liquid by using a dropper a couple times a day.

I'm glad this January post was ressurected. Smokyriver, did your rooster survive?

He did survive. He is doing very well and is back to being second in command to my australorp roo

Mine was a coon attack two summers ago in Ontario. It ripped off a huge chunk of his comb, took his eye and a hole behind the eye. He also recovered, made the trip west along with his dozen hens and is back at work here in Alberta fathering more chicks. Amazing what they can recover from!!!

Yay for both those guys! Smoky, what did you end up using to help him, if anything? It really is amazing what they can recover from. I think they really are quite 'primitive' in some ways, and simple structures, if you will. They seem to be terrible at multi-tasking so it's "brood", "eat", "dust bathe", "Heal" or whatever. They just set themself to the task and do it.

I had some pedialyte here I mixed in the water and some hard boiled eggs mixed with milk soaked dog food and a little bit of yogurt. I also poured black pepper on his wounds and kept him in a cat crate. I was very happy he pulled through. I had lost so many birds this year I was to the point of giving up!!