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    Fox Attacked my Buff Orpington pullet, but survived with injuries. Advice?

    Update on our fox attacked chicken "Pancake". She is doing just fine. In fact we believe the antibiotics we gave her (erythromycin and a sulfa drug in her water for 10 days) has increased her maturity rate. She has bigger waddles and comb than the rest of the flock and is a bit larger. Once...
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    9 week old Buff Orpington, rooster or hen!?

    I'm guessing Roo as well! We have 9 Buff Orpingtons about the same age, and I've been asking myself the same question. I think the tail is the give away. The hen's tails have more rounded feathers, and your Roo looks like they are more pointed. Also his waddles are bigger. He is very...
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    Fox Attacked my Buff Orpington pullet, but survived with injuries. Advice?

    She's still looking good, eating, pooping, etc. We still have her in a separate cage, but have let her occasionally hang out with "the girls" as she is rather lonesome. No one seems to pick on her or care about the bandage under her wing. I had not heard about the hydrotherapy option before...
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    New Chickie-Mom from Vermont!

    Hi, like so many others this spring, we decided due to the covid scare that we'd try raising chickens for eggs. A friend of ours was in the process of ordering from a hatchery and offered to split the order with us. We ended up with 9 buff orpington chicks, which I knew nothing about when we...
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    Fox Attacked my Buff Orpington pullet, but survived with injuries. Advice?

    Hi, last evening while I was home and had just walked into the house, a fox snatched one of my free ranging Buff Orpington pullets! A neighbor witnessed the fox trotting away with her in it's mouth and quickly drove over to tell me thankfully! We quickly put the rest of the girls back in the...
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