Using green montmorillonite clay mixed with a few drops of organic grapefruit seed extract to pack the wound and with a follow up treatment of organic tea tree oil we successfully treated a deep and infected wound on a young female fantail pigeon. In organic smallholding and farming these are some of the essential items in a first aid kit but I had never had to deal with such a horrendous wound before. If you are wondering why I am holding a sparrowhawk, it's because on a previous attack, when I surprised this bird of prey, she flew into and was caught up in the hedge. Unthinkingly I reached down and took hold of her and seeing she was badly stressed gave her some of my emergency electrolyte treatment, after which she recovered well enough to close those talons round my fingers, it was excrutiatingly painful! Needless to say I let her go after which she took a few turns around the kitchen. We later took her several kilometres from the house to a distant and very beautiful wood, away from any farms or human habitation. Months later we now have had another attack but this time by a smaller and juvenile female sparrowhawk, which after a few failed attempts at catching a fantail, has thankfully left the vicinity, like most predators, sparrowhawks are opportunists, if you make life difficult for them, they seem to move away. There is a blogpost to accompany this film at: http://holistic-hen.blogspot.fr/2012/11/free-ranging-fantails-predator-attack.html Volaille bio: - Le traitement d'une plaie profonde et infectée par de l'argile verte, extrait de pépins de pamplemousse bio et d'huile essentielle de Tea Tree bio. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ3bp63MIP8