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My Orpington hen just reached in my jacket pocket and got a generic allegra. I think she ate it. She ran under the porch and the other 3 chickens followed her. I got the rake and made a commotion hoping she would drop it. But I don’t know and the space under the porch is too small for me to get...

I have big Orpington hen 3 years old. Her sole purpose in life seemed to be to eating. But in the last 3 days she is not eating except for grass. I had mixed a little bit of brewers yeast and a little bit of 24% protein crumbles in their crumbles.i also have (3 juvenile hens) that haven’t been...

I have 1 Orpington hen left since a raccoon got in the run and killed all but her last fall. I am going to be getting 3 Orpington chicks with a hatch date ~May 15th. The weather will be nice enough to leave them out in the pen and I also have a brooder lamp if need be. The adult hen uses that...

Late last summer a raccoon got into my coop and killed all of my hens but one, a blue black splash Orpington. Since then she has been alone. I am getting 3 Orpington chicks with a hatch date of May 15. It’s not as long a wait as it has been but it still has a way to go. I have come out here and...

Unfortunately, it seems the only time I come to backyard. Chickens is free, and I have a I I I have a dire emergency. Like now. Last summer a raccoon got into the coop and killed all but two chickens They were e loved pets. So until last night, I only had the two chickens. And then one of them...

I am in a dilemma. Last summer I had seven hens. A raccoon got in the coop and killed all but two of them, and an injured one of them badly. So I have been nursing the injured one and she seem to be doing good until now, and I don’t know if she is eggbound. I don’t know what is wrong with her...

My previous posts were about my chicken Rosie. She is still alive. She still has that same waddling posture. She cannot jump up on the roost. Now she goes to the nest box. And seems to do that well. She is very vocal and talks to me when I talk to her. She is eating as long as I put it in front...

I posted here several months ago because a raccoon got into my coop and killed all but 2 of my hens. And of the 2 left I was afraid one of them would not survive. I posted pictures here and most everyone agreed that she didn’t look like she would survive. But I nursed her and fed her and tried...

I made a post on Saturday about my four chickens that a raccoon got into my coop and killed two of my chickens and there was one that was not in that area but still she seems affected. I cannot see any wounds on her she does limp. I called the hatchery while I bought these chickens and the owner...

I have posted here so many times over the years. Two years ago I got five chicks. I raised them from one day old. I was hyper vigilant about keeping them safe. I live alone and I am 77 years old and they were my family, they really were. The other night I was waiting for them to go to roost. But...

I have a 2 year old sex link hen. She’s always active and is a prolific egg layer although for me she is a pet. In the last week or so she just doesn’t seem well. She is hardly vocal at all but hasn’t separated herself from the flock and she is still eating and drinking. But her chest (not her...

I have a year and a half year old sex link hen that came to me free in a clutch of 5 chicks I bought. She lays eggs like nobody’s business and eats like a horse but she is a little frail thing. She never missed a day laying an egg but then she started molting and no eggs and I knew that was why...

I have a Wyandotte hen that is almost 1 1/2 years old. Abt 6 months ago she got bumblefoot which I had never heard of or seen. I took her to the vet and he lanced it and I gave her Baytril orally for 14 days. That was the worst ordeal of my life. I am widowed, live alone and have arthritis in my...

I have really had a hard time raising chickens. It’s not because I don’t love them, This summer I have lost 2 to predators, one just a week and a half ago and that has broke my heart,:hit I get so attached to them. And they seem to get sick a lot. First they had mycoplasma, and I know that they...

I have this chicken coop I bought with the roosts put in. The chickens have adjusted the the coop fine the one problem I see is that the roosts are 1”x1”. These are fairly large breed chickens with some Orpingtons in the mix. They keep falling off the roosts after going to bed. The vet said...

I posted on March 21st about my hen that had bumblefoot. I took her to the vet and he lanced it and I had to give her Baytril orally for 14 days. She never had a scab on her foot after lancing.!She is up and eating and all but she still has that place on her foot, very much smaller of course...

It seems like I have posted to this forum almost to the exclusion of all others. I have a blue red lace Orpington hen. She is a big beautiful bird. About a week or so ago I noticed she was laying under the coop a lot but it took a few days for me to realize she was laying down too much. She had...

I have a red/blue lace Wyandotte. She is one year old. She has always been a big healthy chicken. About three or four days ago she seem like she didn’t feel well. She would get under the coop and lay there. She seemed alert and when I called her she would look at me. She would eat lettuce, a...

I posted back in December about my five chickens having diarrhea. I bought them as day old chicks in April. I feed them good quality food, I change their water every day, and clean their coop every day. Other than their crumbles the only thing I give them is a little scratch and some lettuce...

I have 5 hens, I got them as day old chicks the first of April 2020. The sexlink started laying first and she has been laying everyday for a couple of months now. . Only recently did the others start laying. They would carry on something awful and I would find an egg in the run, under the coop...