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I just lost my only 2 hens to an owl or hawk probably. They free rang during the day and I put them up at night. I didn't put them up soon enough I guess. Murder scene with feathers all over. Found one hen in coop barely alive. I made my husband put her down. The other hen is completely...

My neighbor complained that their dog was barking at my chickens and the barking was disturbing the neighborhood. So, their dog barks and its my fault. So, I agreed to put up a solid plywood half fence against our shared fence so their dog can't see the chickens. I think it helped the dog from...

Check the yard. I just found 8 eggs in the pine needles/ferns when I thought the leghorn stopped laying for a week.

Sad. thanks for all the tips for wounds. What does apple cider in water do for them?

Ok so at 6 am I let them into the "extended pen" which gives them more room outside but still attached to the coop. By 8 am I had a white egg in the correct nesting box. Then at 8 am I let them out, and went to work. At 5:30 pm I checked again and I had another white egg in the nesting box. I...

After a few white eggs from my 2 leghorns, they all of a sudden stopped laying, I thought. I checked all over the yard, nothing. Then today, I found 8 white eggs in the ferns (I did check there!). So, now I say lock them in the coop a few days to retrain them, But my husband says to just check...

I have been using Neosporin and it seems to be helping dry it out on the really bad hen. . Still have a few spots on other hens but I'm letting them take its course. I also bought a coop safe mosquito spray and separated all around the coup. It says I can spray on the hens but I didn't do that...

It's much worse now one one hen.

Thanks. I'm going to go find one of those remedies because its just looking really bad. The other hens have a couple spots that's all and some have disappeared completely.

We have a Daisy also. From a child's book about a runt hen.

We

Thank you.

Ok one hen has so many pox on her comb that it looks like one solid sore. It was bleeding so I separated her for the afternoon and put Neosporin on it. It's still looks pretty bad but dry and not bleeding, and she acts fine and I'm pretty sure she is still laying. Any ideas?. The other hens have...