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She did not come home tonight unfortunately :(

Hi Sue, thanks for your response! They cover an area of 1.5 acre +/- of which I can find them if I just poke my head out a door and look around. I did try the treats. They go crazy over them and all come running at me even if I just walk in the general direction of where I keep said treats...

Hi all! We have 6 barred rock hens, a little over a year old. Today they are out free ranging (which they get to do about 4 days a week - when we are home). I noticed this morning, about an hour after I let them out, that one is missing. They always stay withing 15-20 feet of each other, and I...

oh, ok thank you!

So it would zap the chickens if they touched it?

Like, actually attached to the metal of the run, or put up a separate fence with a hot wire that circles around the whole structure?

Oh yeah, they have a coop but I think it was just too hectic of a moment, and they are not smart enough to think to get up the ramp and into the coop, so they all just go crazy and try to get far away. I've seen them do it before, when someone runs the chainsaw, or when my nephew thought it was...

Hi everyone. I came home yesterday evening to what I'm 99% sure was the aftermath of a dog terrorizing my girls. They were all locked in the run so, it couldn't get to any of them, but they were all bloody anyways. The game camera of course didn't have an SD card in it at the time so I can't...

Hello everyone. So I've come to the realization that at least one, maybe more, of my hens is a feather eater. We've caught her on multiple occasions pulling feathers out of the other hens and gobbling them up. All 6 of our hens have completely bare bottoms. A couple have some scabs. We...

Hello everyone. So I've come to the realization that at least one, maybe more, of my hens is a feather eater. We've caught her on multiple occasions pulling feathers out of the other hens and gobbling them up. All 6 of our hens have completely bare bottoms. A couple have some scabs. We...

On a side note, Does anyone know if there is an egg withdrawal period when using blue kote? This mornings eggs have blue stripes on the shells.

Thank you eggbert. However I did some research on vent gleet and I don't think that's our problem. There is no discharge or smell, The feathers and skin are clean. Their vents look clean and not irritated. We have no drop in egg production.No loss of appetite or weight. The hens all seem...

Hello everyone. I posted a thread a week or so ago about one of my hens that had lost all the feathers on her bum. I am writing now because, within 2 days, ALL 6 of them have lost their bum feathers. I have no idea what's going on. I have checked for mites at night but of course I don't know...

Update: I got home from work this evening to find that now 3 of the 6 girls have bare butts. What does everyone think of my new discovery? I did just put some vaseline on the butts in question.

Hi all. I just noticed last night that one of our girls is missing all the feathers on her bum. (Pics at bottom) Its not that it's patchy, or thin, they're completely gone. The skin doesn't look raw or irritated though. None of the other (5) have this problem, though I do have one with sparse...