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    Help! 3 wk old chick got tail pecked bloody by sibs.

    I had this same problem with one of my young chickens, around the same age, maybe a week or 2 older. I put her in the bathroom sink and washed off all the blood with warm water, then poured some hydrogen peroxide on her tail feathers and rump area. I patted it dry with paper towel, and she...
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    Carpenter Bees bore a hole in chicken hutch perch to deposit eggs

    This is in response to Kudzu's YouTube link solution ~ I am not a gun person at all, so that would be out of the question for me. I could have killed the carpenter bee by hitting it with my shoe while it was on the perch, as it was an easy target, but I chose not to, just not the route I'm...
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    Carpenter Bees bore a hole in chicken hutch perch to deposit eggs

    Thank you everyone for your help with this, I truly appreciate all of your ideas! I will see today if the bees come back. Yesterday, I had dripped water on the bee that was on the perch to get it to leave, which it did. Then I wrapped a wet paper towel around the perch next to the taped over...
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    Carpenter Bees bore a hole in chicken hutch perch to deposit eggs

    I just put my young 7-week old pullets outside yesterday with their hutch made out of stained pine. While they were foraging around the fenced-in garden area where they are going to live, I noticed today that there was a large bee on their perch in the hutch for quite a while. I removed it with...
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