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    Some of Our Chickens are missing Feathers - Help!

    The Chicken Kingdom is pretty big, nearly 500 square feet. There’s a smaller coop that holds seven with two nest boxes and a bigger, two-story coop, that can hold a bunch more than that. We’ve had 16 chickens, up until today. We just introduced six more, but they’re separated from the gen-pop...
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    Some of Our Chickens are missing Feathers - Help!

    No lice. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of bullying or fighting. We’ve caught several rats in the yard and shed. But none lately. Yet it seems to be getting worse.
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    Some of Our Chickens are missing Feathers - Help!

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    Some of Our Chickens are missing Feathers - Help!

    Any ideas about the issue above?
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    Some of Our Chickens are missing Feathers - Help!

    Some of our chickens are missing feathers. But there are no loose feathers in the coops or yard. It almost looks like something is eating their feathers right off their bodies. I’m
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    Buffy in Trouble!

    This started with a hurt left leg, that was hot to the touch, but has cooled over time. We have her in pen rest. It’s been a little over a week. As you can see from the pics, she has black tar-like poop in her feathers. When we picked her up, the skin and feathers slipped easily away from her...
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    Buffy in Trouble!

    OK, this isn’t looking good. It started with our 10-month old buff Orpington hen with a bum leg Now, she soiled herself with black tar-like, very stinky poop. And, it looks like the skin has slipped loose from her chest. It just slips back. She doesn’t seem to be in pain. It’s just freaky.
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    Bum Leg

    Great place to start. We'll get right on it.
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    Bum Leg

    Thanks! we'll keep a sharp eye out for any of those symptoms.
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    Bum Leg

    She's an 8-month old buff Orpington. I first noticed her hanging out in the coop a couple of days a go. I tried nudging her to get her to move, and she just stumbled around. I picked her up and checked her vent area to see if it was "butt-rot." She was clear. So, I set her down in the open...
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    Bum Leg

    What do you do for a chicken with a hurt leg?
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    Very sick chicken

    What would we have ever done without BYC? Thanks for all the great responses. Luckily, little hen appears to have been broody. We isolated her in an old dog crate with a wire bottom. Within three days, she was herself again, running and squawking with her old pals in the Chicken Kingdom.
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    My Chicken Just Lies There

    Thank you for the thorough and informative reply. I'm holding out hope that it's nothing that drastic. We isolated her and she seems to be bouncing back to her normal chatty self.
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    My Chicken Just Lies There

    She doesn't show any of the normal signs of being broody. She's really listless, doesn't yowl or peck. Could this be something else?
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    My Chicken Just Lies There

    We have a chicken that has been on the nest for days. No eggs underneath her. She just sat there. We boosted her of the nest and she walked around for a bit, but then laid down, with her head down. She made her way back to the coop and laid all day on the floor of the coop. This morning, I...
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