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    Chicken feet

    Yes she can move her toes on both feet she will wrap them around my fingers. I was thinking that maybe it was all maybe psychological maybe she was depressed or something.
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    Chicken feet

    I am posting the photos that I was asked about the foot that is wrapped has the broken middle toe I rewrapped in last night to add some padding to hopefully easy the pain since that is the foot she will only stand on. The foot with no wrap is the one that had bumblefoot
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    Chicken feet

    Also this has been going on for 5 weeks
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    Chicken feet

    I will post photos tomorrow but some days her crop is completely flat at end of day other times it has a little in it. I can’t figure out why her foot still hurts her foot ia no longer swollen and has no sign it had a sore on it. I was only doing hydration for awhile but put food in cage just...
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    Chicken feet

    So this is a ping one, I have road island red about 14months old had a bad case of bumble foot I preformed the surgery got rid of it but my issue is during her healing time she refused to walk on her hurt foot so I put her in a cage to sleep at night and set her up in an area inside during the...
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    Where feeder should be - pros and cons

    Mine feeders are in both I have one large feeder hanging in coop perfect height so it doesn’t spill much and a waterer on a shelf. I have no issues with mice going in my coop its pretty ceiled up my hardwire cloth covers every. I do this so when the hens are up early I dont have to rush to let...
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    Swollen foot

    Actually I did not I cut into her foot and got nothing out of it and it just didn’t want to heal so I kept soaking it for 10 mins everday for about a month and her skin began to come off on bottom of foot and one day when a patch came off it had some hard stinky pus and we got all out and rapped...
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    Egg laying with waterbelly

    Yes we are aware of what swollen belly is and that there is no cure. We are sad she has it but just going to keep her comfortable hoping if she is laying still then she isn’t as far gone with the condition. Thanks for giving me hope she can still be laying.
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    Egg laying with waterbelly

    I have a quick question I have a barred rock she is around 2 years old we know she has waterbelly and I was wondering if its possible she is still laying eggs. If she isn’t we don’t mind. She lays in the box like she is going to lay an egg (we have 14 chickens) and we are just curious if it’s...
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    Raccoon attack

    Do you have pictures of the electric wire and how you placed it. My wildlife rescue wont take them because I live in a farming community I have an avocado grove behind my house two doors down is a orange grove. I new wild animals came with my area I have had raccoons in my garden for years just...
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    Raccoon attack

    All the latches are not the simple ones and have a form of lock on them also we did fix the chicken wire on door with hardwire cloth and its tighter also it is placed on cement
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    Raccoon attack

    I have hardwire cloth with chicken wire sandwiched in between boards I used fenced boards around it screws not nails the raccoon pulled off a smaller board I had nailed on so I put a bigger board on and put screws in instead on all boards I also added more boards then previously I had I also...
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    Raccoon attack

    Hello so on Thanksgiving morning about 3 am my family woke up to sounds we have never heard our chicken make before we ran out to discover a raccoon in the coop. We managed to get all the hens out I went inside with the raccoon and started shoving them out the door telling my teens to put them...
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    Plywood alternatives

    I used fence boards to give it a different look used caulk for the cracks but I am in California so its not that cold here:
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