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I gotta tell you. I have raised chickens for many years and have never had one so aggressive that he attacks himself. This is quite unique.

. Thanks for your advice and for sharing your experience. I won't breed them, regardless. My rooster to hen ratio is 8 to 14. I have a colony of roos that all coexist peacefully without hens. But these 2 are having to be put in separate pens, even from each other.

Thanks for your advice. That's where my thought process was heading. Hopefully they will calm down. I think the less I try to "manage" them, the better we will all be. But the tail chasing.. guh!

I have 6 roos of varying ages and breeds, all very sweet. I ordered 4 light brahma pullets from Cackle Hatchery and ended up with 2 roos, bringing my total roo count to 8. I say this because I have lots of experience with roosters. These guys have me stumped. When they hit their juvenile phase...

I just lost my hen by draining too. I pulled about 12-15 cc off each side. It was yellow. Within 20 minutes, she died in my arms.

It MAY be something that it is a lifelong ailment. I have a rooster that is a RIR mix. He had a leaky eye as a chick. I treated it daily at first and I handle him frequently but now as a 2 year old, he still has leaky eyes, and I just use a warm cloth to wash his face. No other chickens are...

Thank you for your kind words! I appreciate any advice given in the spirit of loving care of our animal friends. It is a challenge trying to navigate care-giving sometimes but she is so worth it. Our Wynter is so sweet, everybody that meets her is taken by her charm and beauty :) I take her in...

Geez Farmer Viola! I appreciate your response but I cannot humanely dispatch Wynter. It would be different if she was in pain but she is a seemingly happy little chicken. She only squawks if she is out of food or our cat walks too close. She is very alert and has in fact clued me in to hawks...

I have a Silkie hen named Wynter who at 5 weeks of age began displaying the classic symptoms of Marek's - splayed legs, droopy wings, and lying upside down more often than right side up. I separated her from her 5 Silkie flockmates and 7 Golden Sex Links who were all the same age. She was...

I have 6 baby Silkie chicks age 5 wks old and one of them has had several episodes where I find her, lying on her back, unable to get up, legs flailing. When I right her into standing, she usually goes on her merry way, eating, drinking, scratching, and chirping although she always seems a...

Update on my hen- my dad kindly gave me a 4 month old RIR hen from his flock. I promptly named her Cinnamon. I put her in a small hutch and placed it inside Eva's pen. After an hour or so, I released her while I sat in the pen to oversee their reactions to each other. It was pretty amazing...

Thank you guys for your valuable advice and kindness. I will get right on the quest for more hens. Yes, it was not a good day. She was my friend, too and we both miss her.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I can't tell you how much coming here and talking to you guys has helped. Peace.

I had 2 three and a half year old hens until last night when one was killed. I am left with one lonely hen. I had tried several days ago to introduce a young rooster (about 4 mos old) because I had some weird premonition that I might lose one of my hens. It did NOT go well. He chased one old...

I think we found the point of entry. It was in a corner where the chain link top met the chain link wall. There was no tie there and the so-and-so squeezed in. I will try to take a picture to show you later.

Thanks for your sympathy. I really do appreciate it! I am willing to try anything to keep my hen safe. Boy, everything out there seems to want chicken as its meal. I had no idea the hardest part to raising chickens is keeping them safe from predators. :(

Thank you for your kind words. I am so sad and feel guilty that I didn't protect her better. My lone chicken is hanging out with me. She is bound to be traumatized after last night. We are going to enclose the last wire wall with wood after reading your post. Raccoons are horrid little thieves!!!!

I went out at dawn to let my 2 girls out and only one met me. I got a sick feeling because they always are together. I rounded the corner and my sweet Delilah was lying, half eaten, at the floor of the roost. I have had these girls for three and a half years. Their pen consisted of a 10x10 dog...

So glad to read the poison from black widows is neutralized because my girls ate a bunch of them yesterday as I was moving bricks! I was going to throw away the eggs they've laid since then and REALLY didn't want to, but didn't want to swallow neurotoxins either!!! Thanks so much for the post.