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    Chicken attacked by bobcat, wasting away

    Yeah I checked him all over, I used to work in the veterinary field so I tried to feel for any obvious injuries and didn’t feel any either. Just trying to feed his usual food, have tried a scrambled egg too but he has no interest in eating and barely drinks water. After a ton of reading...
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    Chicken attacked by bobcat, wasting away

    Rescued our year old Easter egger roo literally from the mouth of a bobcat. This is the second time he has survived a bobcat attack. An hour before he was grabbed, another one of our young cockerels was chasing him and trying to attack him, he was pretty worked up. We got him away from the cat...
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    Hen found dead in coop

    Found one of our hens dead in their coop yesterday, within hours after they got put up. We do have several young roosters, one seems to be trying to assert his dominance over the other two. Nothing could have gotten into their coop, we checked the other birds and they were fine. The hen was...
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    Limping 6 month old hen with hard crop

    I ended up having to do surgery on her crop to remove everything, there was a bunch of feathers, long grass and what looked like sand and it was very firm. She’s lost a lot of weight so I think that attributed to her imbalance, especially with how heavy her crop was before emptying it. She is...
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    Limping 6 month old hen with hard crop

    She hasn’t laid any eggs yet, no new birds. We began treating with olive oil and gentle crop massages and it’s been slow going but her crop is slowly emptying. 12 hours ago we took up food and just gave water, once the 12 hours were up we tried giving plain scrambled egg (she didn’t really want...
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    Limping 6 month old hen with hard crop

    A few days ago my mom noticed one of her 6 month old isa brown hens limping on one of her legs. She isolated her to keep the others from bothering her and she’s been eating and drinking just fine and alert. She is having normal poop as well. She did notice her crop has stayed full/hard, so we...
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