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    11 month old hen falling off roost

    Our Easter egger Coco is flying free now 😥 went south quickly so we had her put to sleep.
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    11 month old hen falling off roost

    Meh, vet thinks she may not make it. They are doing x-rays. Said that they will do calcium and fluids, but said good chance that she won't make it :(
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    11 month old hen falling off roost

    So she was OK through the night the couple times we checked on her. This AM she has a egg membrane sticking out, so it's a compacted egg we think. Gave her a warm soak and at the vets office now waitingto be seen.
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    11 month old hen falling off roost

    She's about 11 months old, no moldy food around or any fluids around, we keep everything kept up good. Will check her out in the AM as suggested.
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    11 month old hen falling off roost

    Yes, we brought her in the house and she was walking all over and even jumped out of our arms 3 times. Could it be she was sleepy and just disoriented? We have her in a huge plastic bin with pine shavings and she appears to be sleeping in a corner of it. Just not sure what to think of it all.
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    11 month old hen falling off roost

    Hello, we have a Easter egger who was falling off the roost like she couldn't keep her balance. We brought her in the house and she did eat some meal worms and was walking around the house ok. She seems ok holding her and can't see any visible trauma. She was fine all day that I noticed. Not...
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    Cold Temps

    That's not feasible to do currently. The coop it's self hasn't had condensation nor do I smell ammonia or anything. I am adding a 36x5 vent on the back below the current one, still should be well above the roosting bar. Will start here for now.
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    Cold Temps

    That would be almost as big the largest side of my coop. It's a 3x5 lean coop.
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    Cold Temps

    Inside pic isn't full pic of ventilation, Coop has decent ventilation I thought, but what do you all think?
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    Cold Temps

    Well it looked like the start of it, white-ish on our green egger and our Australorp. We put some bag balm on their combs, which the of course is black from my raised garden they are going into. I made winter area for them in the garden. I think they maybe got the frostbite on the days it...
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    Cold Temps

    I have not, I have read so many conflicting things about heating the coop. I was at one point opting for a dog house heater thats safe and would be mounted so not near the girls or pine shavings, have also been looking at the Sweeter Heater to put above the roosting bar. Not sure of either as...
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    Cold Temps

    Hello, I live in MN and we have some cold nights here, a few nights already at -5 and worried about the nights and days that will hit -20 or worse. I insulated my coop with reflective insulation roll material and stacked hay bales arounf the bottom and sides as much as possible. The...
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    Integration

    Yes they are all in the same coop. I put a small divider of cardboard on the roost as the older ones were picking on the little ones.
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    Integration

    Thanks, I assumed as much. They chase them away some now but no chasing them down and attacking. Barely see them even peck them, but that may be because the chick's are too fast 😅
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    Integration

    Hello, We are integrating our two 10 week old chick's to our 6 month old flock. We set them up in separated spaces for about a week on and off and then let them be together a bit. Due to weather here in MN we put them together sooner than we wanted. For the most part the older girls chase them...
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