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    Sneezing chicken

    Thank you. It's raining in So Cal today, (YEA!) so I will wait until tomorrow when the sun reappears to gently clean her sinus cavities. I have been mixing the pellet layer feed and the crumbles, but your suggestion of her two feeders sounds good. I use shavings only in their sleeping...
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    Sneezing chicken

    My healthy looking, curious, independent, and alpha chicken (barred rock) has always had a tendency to sneeze. We went on a two week vacation and left them in good hands for that period. When we returned, I noticed she was sneezing a bit more significantly. I've noticed she seems to have a...
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    Bobcat attack!

    I just want to report that my Butterscotch survived the bobcat attack ordeal and her puncture wounds, ripped skin, and feather loss have miraculously healed. The attack happened four weeks ago. For two weeks, I fed her high protein mixtures, gave her plenty of water, and dressed her wounds...
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    Bobcat attack!

    It's been 8 days since the bobcat attack. Butterscotch is still not herself. I treated the wounds for five days and they seem to be healing as well as can be expected. However, she has developed projectile water diarrhea. She is not eating much unless I 'spoon feed' her a paste mixture of...
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    Bobcat attack!

    Thank you! My chicken (Butterscotch) is hanging in there from her bobcat attack. I mixed up some of her regular food mash, and high protein vitamin food additive and electrolytes with yogurt and H20, and a few pomegranate seeds (which she normally loves off our tree). Then I spoon fed her off...
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    Bobcat attack!

    Thank you for the encouragement. She seems better this morning and is actually drinking! I'm not quite sure how to clean her puncture wounds…and she lost a lot of feathers. Poor little thing! I put her in a separate compartment in my coop. One skin cut is particularly large. I'm going to...
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    Bobcat attack!

    A bobcat attacked my best layer this afternoon. She lost feathers and its talons ripped her skin. I put neosporin on it and separated her from the other three peeps! She is just standing there with her eyes closed, obviously in shock. I don't know what else to do!!
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    Help! Chick may be shrinkwrapped!!!

    Three teachers saved a shrinkwrapped chick by wrapping her in warm damp washclothes under a gentle heat lamp and dipping q-tips in warm water and soaking the membrane enough to loosen it and gently tease it off. The chick (named Peeps) miraculously survived despite an initial 'leg deformity'...
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    Do chickens get constipated?

    My golden sex link 12 week pullet still has her tail feathers drawn and still seems to have a lump under her feathers where her tail is drawn under. She is 'resting' in the corner a lot. However, she continues to eat and drink. We inspected her vent area today and it seems normal. I gave her...
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    Comment by 'Bernice Clark' in article 'Skunk - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Skunks'

    Yikes! I don't know where to turn. Last night we counted six young skunks and the mama living under my tool shed which is about ten feet from my coop/run that holds my four pet pullets 12 weeks old. I have called the local animal control center and they recommended using repellent which we did...
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    Do chickens get constipated?

    Thank you for your help. I'm new to raising backyard chickens and I may be overly concerned. I haven't noticed a strong odor. I will check her for poopy butt in the morning. But meanwhile, I'll research that as well. Thanks again!
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    Do chickens get constipated?

    Would 'egg bound' happen to a pullet who is only twelve weeks old and not laying yet?
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    Do chickens get constipated?

    One of my four pullet's tail feathers have curved down in the last couple of days. She appears to have a sort of a lump on her behind just above her vent. I noticed a very minor trembling movement, and I also noticed her neck feathers flare but return to normal quickly.. She's eating and...
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    My Girls

    Thanks. I'm looking forward to learning lots more about back yard chickens. I recently retired as a school teacher and am so excited to replace my past human 'chicks' with future egg producing chicks. My husband is in the process of building an awesome protective coop and run. We live in...
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    My Girls

    Hi! Meet my new girls, Blackie, a Barred Rock; Rosie, an Auracana, joined a week later by Butterscotch, a Golden Comet, and Sunnie, a Buf Orpington. Love my Babies!
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