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    Diary of a Crossbeak: Support for Special Needs Chickens and their Keepers

    We have a 7 month old rooster (brahma-cochin mix). When he was born his foot was club-like and his toes were curled under, leaving him unable to stand. We made little casts to reset his foot and it's mostly straightened out. He sometimes walks a little sideways, but he can get around pretty...
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    Pullet injury

    The bad thing is that she has learned to climb up and down the steps, which means she finds us anytime we go upstairs she comes up with us!
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    Pullet injury

    None of them seem particularly aggressiv that I've seen. She's doing okay now. She's in the house and has a "recovery room." She's been snuggling with the dogs or following me around. Eating and drinking good, resting off and on and when she's up she has a lot of energy and is running around happily
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    Pullet injury

    . Not the best picture. She usually turns and faces the camera lol it's scabbing over now and we've been putting neosporin on it
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    Pullet injury

    Makes sense. No mites. She was only pulling her foot feathers when she was alone, so I was thinking it was stress or being in pain from the injury? During the day she's been with our dogs and seems to be fine, she was only pulling her feathers out the first night, but her feet are almost bare...
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    Pullet injury

    I don't see hawks very often though. I've seen them a lot more frequently other places we've lived. We do have some owls, but I've only heard them and they're pretty far back in our woods and the chickens are always in at dark
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    Pullet injury

    No idea what kind of hawks they are. They free range for the time being. We're in the process of building an enclosed run. Right now they're only let out after we're done with work until the enclosed run is finished. Our injured girl seems to be behaving normally for the most part, but I'm not...
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    Pullet injury

    Hawks mostly. Every now and then a dog, but usually we know because our dogs freak out. I haven't really seen much else.
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    Pullet injury

    One of our girls got hurt on Saturday afternoon/evening. Not sure how. I came out to check in them outside and saw blood on her neck. I took her inside right away and we were able to get a better look at the injury. We got it cleaned and the skin back in place. She's inside where we have a...
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    Attached rooster?

    He's a little over a year old at this point from what we were told. He's been doing fine lately. The girls are out in the coop, although he has a separate coop right next to them because they're still a bit small if he's looking to get lucky. He spends a lot of his time in front of their door...
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    Attached rooster?

    thanks. I'll be keeping a close eye on him. We did have a visitor yesterday with no issue and he kept his distance. He's such a beautiful boy I hope he's just adjusting to the change of the rehoming and not having a flock. The picture was taken just a little bit ago. When I sit outside he always...
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    Attached rooster?

    He is with his ladies during the majority of the day now. At first they were separated just in case, but now they're able to be all together while the girls are put outside to acclimate to the cold weather. Like I said, he's been great with them. They can share food and be in the same area and I...
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    Attached rooster?

    The other hens are 7 weeks old and we just got them recently. Some of them were not fully feathered and since there are not any other hens in the unheated coop we were worried about the drastic change in temperature being too much of a shock, since they had a ton of other hens in the cage with...
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    Attached rooster?

    He's close to a year old. He was rehomed because the previous owners ended up with multiple roosters and it wasn't going well. No young kids just adults here! When we do have kids around, they're all teenagers. I'm kind of confused by me picking him up that he's submitting to me because I've...
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    Attached rooster?

    The hens are not free ranging yet like he is. They have a penned in area that they are in until they are more acclimated to the cold and can go into the coop. He does get really excited to see them and has followed me into the basement when I bring them in, but he will often go back and forth...
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