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    I need HELP i have an injured chicken

    not new wound? 5 days now but I know a lot from this experience if it ever happens again
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    I need HELP i have an injured chicken

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    Dog attack - chunk of skin torn open

    My hen got attacked 5 nights ago.. one hen is gone with feathers over a long trail so I believe a predator bird got in the coop when the rains swelled the wood and a storage area over the roost opened up so . . other hen has a big ear of skin pulled back she is not walking a lot or eating a lot...
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    I need HELP i have an injured chicken

    last night A predator got into a 4" circle ceiling opening of my coop- I think in rain wood swelled and kicked open hinge (it's fixed now) but I have only the feathers remaining of my big maran and my favorole has a huge gash to her thigh. I have treated the wound and separated her from the...
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    ⠀ chicks only 7 1//2 months old...it's WARM here but no egg laying

    THANK you for the response re the lighting- help for the young hens who had begun to lay then ceased. I started to give them more layer food and less scratch and 3 of them WENT BACK TO LAYING. Only the Morans have not laid again- one of them is HUGE and never has laid. They're a winter...
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    ⠀ chicks only 7 1//2 months old...it's WARM here but no egg laying

    we did check for mites and could not find a thing no signs of a predator.should I just treat for mites anyway? ? thanks for response
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    ⠀ chicks only 7 1//2 months old...it's WARM here but no egg laying

    5 of my hens had begun to lay between 5 1/2 and 6 mo of age then they all stopped. Morans Amerucana favorole & Andulusian
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    ⠀ chicks only 7 1//2 months old...it's WARM here but no egg laying

    (First time for me & chicks: they are 7.5 months old) My chickens get layer feed and lots of green/ fresh herbs as well as oyster shell grit. they are friendly, look healthy have a large enclosed run but they ALL stopped laying in late september. it is still real warm in San Diego. Is this...
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    Cawing chicken w/ hiccups?

    I am a new coops mom and yesterday afternoon I was convinced my 6 hens all 8 months old and all had stopped laying a month ago. (unrelated) were going to die of respiratory infection though they all look and eat healthy. ONE CHICKEN WHEEZED AND SNEEZED FOR 3 HRS. I put her in separation and...
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    Help my chickens stopped laying!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    in Mid October after a very hot San Diego Summer One chicken (hens all born in March began to lay about 5 months old except the fat one) started to brood and that took 20 days to stop but on about day 5 all of the others had stopped laying, some did just just B4 the broody. I have a Faverol...
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    it's mid Oct and my Favorole has been broody for 2 weeks

    I HAVE read a lot and tried a lot of "other ways" but now my instinct tells me I have been giving way too many treats / scratch & freeze dried worms and maybe they just are not getting enough layer food and that is why I have not received one egg in weeks! I still have "Ms broody" in dog crate...
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    it's mid Oct and my Favorole has been broody for 2 weeks

    My broody Hen has no eggs under her and has not laid one in over a week and sadly has not allowed the other hens in ANY of the nest boxes while she puffs up and shrieks at them (& me when I lift her out a few times a day) there is no rooster and she way laying just fine prior to this episode...
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    Pecking

    thank you for the ideas I found other chickens picking on the "pecked One" so I have put her in a separate station nearby so she can get to food and recover.. she has a big scab on the top of her head and I have been treating that per my chicken literature. In her separated home she is a bit...
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    is it cannibal behavior

    I only have 6 hens in my coop/ run: 2 Ameraucana, 2 black Maran, 1 Faverolle and 1 blue andalusian. The later 2 of these stayed in the brooder a bit longer as they were 1 and 2 weeks younger (DOB Mar-7 12 and 18/ 2014). It was a bit of push away for the younger newcomers and then...
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    2 youngest chicks bullied by 4 'toddlers"

    I started with 6 chicks, but one of the the 2 that were a week younger had accidental death when they when first when first given run vs brooder. I replaced with one even a week younger then put 4 oldest in run/ coop full time and left the 2 youngest in brooder. NOW THEY ARE ALL IN THE COOP...
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