Recent content by lioness27

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For the past year or so, I've had a chicken suddenly die every 1 to 3 months. Most of them have been about 6 to 9 months old at the time of their death although some have been closer to 3 to 6 months. I fed medicated chick feed to the last group of chicks for the first 4 months. It seems to have...

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Thank you for the information. Upon exam there was a 2×4 inch hole in the fencing. Rat maybe? Would a rat bloody one chick's head but leave the body intact?

Please bear with me as I give background. 8 weeks ago, my broody hen hatched 3 chicks. I kept them separated in their own 3 x 9 foot run. Everything seemed fine until 1week ago. The mother hen began to peck one of the chicks. This chick was slightly smaller than the other 2. I removed the...

Thanks! I'll look into it! I'm just afraid that if I remove the bully, the next hen will take her place and be the bully. The peepers might work provided she can still see to eat and drink.

Our mystery continues. We found to 2 hens in the run one morning. Both were missing a large amount of feathers from their back to the base of their tails. No evidence of predation. No previous illness or disease. One of the dead hens was the one I suspected of bullying. It was really strange...

I don't see any parasites bit am new to chicken raising.

No roosters. The hens are all the same age of 9 months.

All my hens but onehave bald patches at the base of their tails. The skin is very leathery and dry but unbroken. No one is laying either. Could one hen be picking on all the others?