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Wound care (and behaviour advice)

I have two long bonded buns, one of which has a nipping behaviour associated with food/stress but today they had a scuffle. I check both but poppet has a wound where Celestine has ripped the skin. Pic below. How should I treat the wound?

Also, any advice in terms of should I separate them, reintroduce etc? I have two long term fosters arriving in two weeks which will be near their enclosure aswell (stress).

Thanks guys x
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I'm no expert on this sort of stuff but I would gently dab some boiled, cooled salty water on it and I think you can put a little bit of Sudocrem on and keep an eye on it because these things can turn into abscesses. Might be a good idea to check it out tomorrow at the Vets. If it doesn't happen often I would just put them back together but try to keep the fosters as far away as possible.
 
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