Bleeding by the claw

if you have no wound powder sprinkle a little bit of cornflour onto it - this will stop it bleeding and dry it up 

If it's the claw that is bleeding I always use to have a styptic pencil (Spelling???) handing when cutting my cockateils nails in case I caught the quick.  I think they are used by men if they cut themselves shaving.... I guess you can use them on a hen.

We had this problem yesterday, we noticed that one of our new ex-batts was bleeding, and quite heavily, gawd knows how she'd done it!    
We tried the Cornflour method, but the blood just kept coming, and quite fast.  
After about 30mins of trying with the cornflour we gave up and used the fag lighter out of the car to cauterise it. I have to say, I really wasn't looking forward to this, but it stopped the bleeding immediately, and she didn't seem at all bothered by it, so I'm guessing it wasn't as painful as I thought it would be?

She went straight back to scratching around as normal, and it hasn't bled since, so all's well that ends well.  

I thought I'd just share this emergency technique with you, for cases where the cornflour has no effect.

Elaine.