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    Bumble foot - is this how it should be healing?

    I did today soak her in epsom and removed the scab pictured- went well, there was no hardness underneath it, just a lot of swelling that had been going down but stopped as that scab got darker. I did see on here a low dosing of baby aspirin for pain so she is wrapped in new clean bandages in...
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    Bumble foot - is this how it should be healing?

    Hi everyone- I need some advice. I have a nearly 10 year old chicken who was attacked by a racoon 2 months ago (all in the coop were injured or killed). At first she showed no outward injury- we thought she had been shoved off the roost in the panic of the other birds and it seemed the ankle...
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    Odd behaviors in my 2 year old hens since adding 2 month olds, no laying

    @oldhenslikesdogs yes that is exactly what I planned to do. They will all be moving to the new coop but so far they are able to share treats through the babies' coops and I am finding feeding/ petting the old girls first before I even go to the other pen is doing wonders for public relations. We...
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    Odd behaviors in my 2 year old hens since adding 2 month olds, no laying

    Thanks very much for the insight. I think the girls have been avoiding eating in the coop because of the new long-tailed friends so we've experiemented with placement of the feeder. Violet best likes to be hand-fed so I have been doing that today and she's been much more settled. I did also take...
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    Odd behaviors in my 2 year old hens since adding 2 month olds, no laying

    Hello I didn't find anything near my issue and I'm new to the threads. I have gotten much help just reading here in the past though. I have 3 gold laced Wyandotte hens (Saffy, Lavender and Violet). We raised them from 1 day old peeps in the house and transferred them at 7 weeks to the outside...
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