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    Pullet with broken feather shaft on foot

    I got everything set up to clean Roo. Even prepared an epsom bath just in case. When I brought her in, her feet were already cleaned and the broken feather with the dried blood was gone. Roo did a good job preening. I did not see the torn shaft but there were new pin feathers. So I grabbed all...
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    Pullet with broken feather shaft on foot

    Thank you. I just read your post. Been a busy morning finishing up the aux hen pen, dealing with Roo and the other hens, and cleaning the main coop and run. We looked at Roo this morning. It looks like just the tip where the feathers emerge was torn. The shaft itself has another 1/4”+ to the...
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    Pullet with broken feather shaft on foot

    Thank you for responding. I’ll try to get a photo before we start. Since the bleeding stopped and wasn’t much, I let her rest over night in the horse trailer. I checked on her first thing this morning and she’s fine. We plan to pull the feather today but had to get more lumber for the coop...
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    Pullet with broken feather shaft on foot

    I do not have a separate isolation coop. Funny thing is we just returned from Rural King with a $300 coop/run that we were going to build for the 4-week-old chicks I plan to add to my flock. My husband and I were watching the girls (six 15-week-old pullets) and talking about the placement of...
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