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    Help! I messed up pulley introductions

    Thank you!
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    Help! I messed up pulley introductions

    The “loner” pullet is 8 weeks. The new ones are 10. The run is 4X12. They have a good amount of space so they should be able to stay apart
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    Help! I messed up pulley introductions

    Thank you!
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    Help! I messed up pulley introductions

    I recently purchased four pullets from a local breeder. After a few nights in the starter coop, a snake killed three of them. 😢 Because I was concerned about the remaining bird being alone, I just got three new pullets today. Unfortunately, the three new ones are picking on the original “loner”...
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    Injured bird advice needed

    She is not laying right now. I don’t expect her to start until sometime in March. She’s never been a big layer. I don’t think she has any trouble with the other hen.
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    Injured bird advice needed

    Right now there are only two hens. I had a third and she was killed by a possum. My girls are older. The one in the picture is about six years old.
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    Injured bird advice needed

    I just went out to check on my chickens and found that one of my hands is bleeding from the mouth and has a severely swollen crop. I can’t tell if she got into a fight with another hen or if she is sick. Any help would be appreciated
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    Egg Bound or just fat?

    So if it is ascites, should I cull it?
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    Egg Bound or just fat?

    So I have a hen that I thought might be egg bound. She was waddling and her belly looked swollen.(Other than that, she is acting pretty normal) I used lubricant and did an internal digital exam but didn't feel an egg. Any advice?
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    Chicken with right eye closed, right foot held up

    My 4yr old hen seems to be injured on her right side. Her right eye is closed and she is holding her right leg up. Her right wing is slightly droopy. Any ideas? I thought she may have been stung by a wasp because I saw a wasp nest being built on the outside corner of the coop. Any ideas would...
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    Possible Cannibalism-Input please

    Thanks Erica- We do have a fence and a roof. There is a small ( several inches) gap in the fence at the gate, but that is all. I see no evidence of anything getting in, and these two were always in the nest boxes (I was worried they wouldn't get enough food and water). I agree about the...
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    Chicken Cannibalism? murder? Input please

    It would appear so, but we have them in a 20x20 fenced run with a fenced roof on it. We looked for possible openings and can't find any. Also, the piles of feathers were about 15 feel apart and there was no blood by the feathers just the bloody corpse
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    Possible Cannibalism-Input please

    I have two hens (Prissy & Greta) who were broody and insisted on staying in the same nest box for about a week. If I removed Greta or moved Prissy, Greta would follow her and climb back in the nest box with her. I just went outside to collect eggs and noticed Prissy dead in the back of the...
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    Chicken Cannibalism? murder? Input please

    I have two hens (Prissy & Greta) who were broody and insisted on staying in the same nest box for about a week. If I removed Greta or moved Prissy, Greta would follow her and climb back in the nest box with her. I just went outside to collect eggs and noticed Prissy dead in the back of the...
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    Lethargic and limping EE Hen- Please advise

    UPDATE: Unfortunately we lost the hen. I'm afraid it might have been Mereck's. I have a friend who is an Avian vet and will update him tomorrow. I need to know if a necropsy is needed, or if I should just bury the bird
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