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    Need advice re: lonely recuperating hen

    Thanks Patricia...I haven't put my recuperating hen in with the other three except for a couple of "visits". The largest one in the coop wants to bully her so I was considering taking her out and keeping her by herself for a while. After such a tenuous recuperation, I can't see submitting my...
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    Need advice re: lonely recuperating hen

    So...I got three grown hens...not sure of their ages...from one of my daughter's friends who had to give up some of her flock. I put them in the coop by themselves with the hope of one day adding Sybil - the injured pet - to the coop. Sybil is in a rabbit hutch still recuperating; and doing so...
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    How to deter bobcats?

    Thank you all for the information and comments! In response to one of you...nothing was left of the chickens other than a few feathers and some blood caught on the fence. The hens were small...only 8 months old. I am going to look into traps because I am so curious as to what took my hens...
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    High Desert, California!!

    I am in Pinon Hills and have a predator question. I lost all but one of my chickens to a predator. The one surviving has been getting better after 2 1/2 weeks in the house in a dog crate. I found her on her perch with a gaping hole in her neck. It wasn't bleeding, but was red and raw. Her...
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    How to deter bobcats?

    You all suggest the predator went over a fence, but the coop/yard is totally enclosed and both instances I could see where the animal entered...at ground level and the hole was not more than 4 inches in diameter! The critter had to be strong as well - the chain link was hard to move. And no...
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    How to deter bobcats?

    I lost all but one hen to what I think was a bobcat. I had 3, then one morning had only two and one severely injured and a hole about 4 inches diameter pulled on the edge of a chain link fence. I repaired the fence (it was a strong booger - I'm assuming bobcat due to the size and no carcass...
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    Need advice re: lonely recuperating hen

    Do you think she would get picked on by another hen? That would be the last thing she needs! She had her whole throat area torn up and it is still scabby and unfeathered.
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    Need advice re: lonely recuperating hen

    My chickens were all killed by a bobcat except for one who was severely injured a few weeks ago. I brought her indoors and kept her in a dog kennel in the living room and she has recuperated! ...almost. She didn't move for about 10 days, then began standing occasionally, and now will walk a...
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    injured hen won't get up

    My hen is doing amazingly well! She has advanced to standing occasionally and tonight even ventured -slowly- out of the kennel (I open it up when I'm near by)!! I'm thinking of two things...At what point do I move her outside? I have a rabbit hutch that I had her in when she made the...
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    injured hen won't get up

    Thank you for your encouragement. My hen is still hanging in there! She actually moved a bit during the night! This is the first activity on her own in 11 days! She is having regular water and mash with whatever I can find that she might like. She eats very little...maybe a couple of...
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    injured hen won't get up

    I have an 8 month old hen who is the lone survivor of a bobcat attack! It happened 9 days ago. She is in a dog crate in my living room in a nest box lined with a towel. She drinks water and has begun pecking at her food that I have in her reach. (I had started her with sugar-water, then...
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    emergencies

    Thank you all...I'm trying to learn how to navigate this site!
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    emergencies

    My chicken is still hanging in there! She has gone from sugar-water and vegetable soup to eating regular mash in the last week. She still eats very little but is hydrated and beginning to cluck a little now and then. I have her in the living room in a large dog crate. She does not stand...
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    emergencies

    I am fairly new to raising chickens and had a disaster! I had 3 hens that were 8 months old. One of them had been laying 5 eggs a week since she was 6 months old. They were in a totally enclosed chicken coop (wood on one end, top and sides, and chicken wire with a chain-link gate on the other...
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