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    Losing hens. Yellow coming out of behind. Please help. Photos attached

    I'm going to separate the hens tomorrow and relocate some to the old coop. I haven't had any soft or brittle shelled eggs at all. But I haven't gotten any white eggs either. I have Leghorns, Delaware, ISO brown , golden comet and Asian. If it's correct, only the leghorn make white eggs
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    Losing hens. Yellow coming out of behind. Please help. Photos attached

    I have one acre that backs to a huge field owned by the electric company. It'll never be developed. The one neighbor is right on the other side of my driveway that has the dog and the other is an acre away, no pets. I'm planning on making the back 1/8 acre into the flock area that backs the...
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    Losing hens. Yellow coming out of behind. Please help. Photos attached

    The dog is not the only problem. I just checked with a neighboring farm. He has video and trail cam of fox, coyote and cougar. And I just came in from the coop and found a raccoon trying to get into the coop. Time for a trail cam and some traps. I can just fence the back of the property. It'll...
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    Losing hens. Yellow coming out of behind. Please help. Photos attached

    They have been reduced to 58 chickens, an animal got into the coop one night and killed a good number and I have lost 12 in 2 days to the vent crap. I counted tonight and I'm losing my mind. No one can tell me what is happening to the hens that are dying. No egg binding to be found. I have...
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    Losing hens. Yellow coming out of behind. Please help. Photos attached

    They can not free range due to hawks, fox and neighbors dog. I feed then layer pellets and scratch with leafy greens, veggies and fruit. The ducks are being moved this weekend to a separate run and coop that is being built. The male ducks aren't aggressive but I do have a Delaware that mounts...
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    Losing hens. Yellow coming out of behind. Please help. Photos attached

    OK, alot to answer. 10 months old, all hens laying except Leghorns. I get 20-30 eggs a day. 10x20 coop with boxes and roosts and a 20x40 run. I feed then layer and scratch with greens and veggies and fruit. 6 roosters to 50 hens. They spend all day with the coop open to the run. They play on the...
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    Losing hens. Yellow coming out of behind. Please help. Photos attached

    A week ago I started seeing a swollen vent with a yellow substance coming out. Was told to use blue coat to see if the other chickens would stop picking on it. Works for a bit then starts again. The chickens have started dying. Please help me to know what is going on. Thank you
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    Extremely large eggs and now dead hen

    One strong writer, The ducks have been with then since the were just out of the brooder. They are 3 male Peking and 3 female Muscovy with 2 hatchling from the spring. They have grown up together. Weeg, I do have to work tomorrow so I won't be able to do the exploratory till tomorrow evening as...
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    Extremely large eggs and now dead hen

    I'll do that tomorrow. I can slaughter chickens so it won't bother me. I love my chickens. They each have their own personality. It sucks when I lose one.
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    Extremely large eggs and now dead hen

    No just an empty hole, no blood, no growths. It's like she laid the egg and fell over dead cause the egg was under her.
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    Extremely large eggs and now dead hen

    I'm just concerned cause her vent was huge when I inspected her. I have a 90 chicken flock with 4 roosters, I think, Asians are hard to tell cause the girls will mount I've found out. I also found a picked apart hen that was smaller then the rest just now. I'm hoping they aren't turning on each...
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    Extremely large eggs and now dead hen

    I have hens laying brown eggs that won't fit into jumbo boxes and are covered in blood. They are either ISO Brown or Golden comets cause the eggs are brown. I also have Asian, Delaware and Red Leghorns. They are 9 months old so I figured the cause was first laying. The first picture is a store...
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    Bloody egg shell

    I have hens laying eggs that won't fit into jumbo boxes and are covered in blood. They are 9 months old so I figured first laying. Went out tonight to put the girls into the coop and found a dead hen with a very large vent. Can the eggs be killing the hens? No blood in the coop or on her.
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