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    Hen with spinal injury after dog attack cant walk or stand! Is this going to be permanent?!?!

    I know this is years later but I was just thinking about my chickens, I gave them to a freind of my dads last summer. As Im going through high school I was losing time to take care of them, and I dident trust anyone in my family to shut them up at night and counting to make shure they were all...
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    Maggots in wound above vent.

    Semi graphic pictures attached. I have a RIR 2 year old hen who has a wound the size of a half dollar coin above her vent. There were about 30 maggots in it. I picked them all out and am unsure of what to do next. As a backstory, this hen was attcked by the nehbors dog a year ago. She was bitten...
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    The road to quitting chicken keeping?

    I found her in the barn in the morning, she must have gotten out of the pen somhow and was hiding.
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    Do rooster collars really work?

    I never got one due to the fear of him choking. Beleave it or not but of all the nehbors I have talked to they all don't mind his crowing and some like it. You can try it I would just make shure its not too tight and I would take it off on hot days so he can breathe
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    The road to quitting chicken keeping?

    Thank you for all the replies, the kid with the business is also quitting chickens do to the rising feed costs taking alot of the profits out of it. I live in an area where animals are valued well, most people would mean well when getting them but they don't all know what they are doing. I think...
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    The road to quitting chicken keeping?

    Actually I know a kid at school who has a poultry business, he makes alot of money off it and haches his own chicks so I will have to give him a deal on them but I will know they will be in a good home till then stop laying and then he will do what needs to be done with the least amount of...
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    The road to quitting chicken keeping?

    I can keep them as long as I would like but when they stop laying I will have to start footing the feed bill. My parents buy the feed now becuse I charge them $2 per dozen they eat and keep track of all that and I also sell eggs, if they don't eat as many eggs some months I will give them the...
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    The road to quitting chicken keeping?

    I'm trying to make up my mind about if I should quit chicken keeping or not. Nothing bad has realy happened except for a dog killing 6 of my 23 a year ago. Since then I have hatched more and am back to 22 hens and one rooster. I'm in high school and tired of having to be home to put them away...
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    Hen came back after missing for 5 days!

    Guess who decided to lay another cluch of eggs outside of the chicken pen. I should clip her wings but I don't want to limit her if something decides to kill chickens. She decided to spend tonight outside again, but she laid them in a spot that they have laid eggs in the past so I found her...
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    Hen came back after missing for 5 days!

    Well mabey she just went to get some food and water. She was back in the bush when I took those pictures
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    Hen came back after missing for 5 days!

    You can see the crater i made in it when I went looking for the nest.
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    Hen came back after missing for 5 days!

    WARNING- This is a long post, I don't need help just sharing a story. Saturday I went out later than I usually do to count chickens and to close the coop door. I counted and I was one short, I was missing one of the RIR×Buff Orpinton crosses. I was kicking myself for counting them that late...
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    Egg bound hen? Lethargic, tail down, wings dragging.

    Thank you.
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    Egg bound hen? Lethargic, tail down, wings dragging.

    I went into the barn at 1pm to check on her and she was dead. I'm just glad I didn't get too attached to her in the week I had her. It's still very sad though.
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    Egg bound hen? Lethargic, tail down, wings dragging.

    She has been sleeping alot so I think I'm going to let her sleep in the barn to die peacefully with food and water within reach like you said. If she makes it till Monday I will have my dad put her down he is on a trip right now and I dont think I have it in me.
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