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    Getting my chickens to use my coop.

    Make sure you provide your chickens with a roost inside their coop. Close them in for a couple of days and get rid of the roost outside. If you can use their outside roost and modify it to fit inside your coop that might be best. Also chickens are great at adjusting to cold weather as long as...
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    Free range vs run

    We keep 9 hens. Over the years we have had some loss, mainly due to predation. Hawks, coons, possums and neighborhood dogs when we free ranged. We have settled on an electric fence which has eliminated everything but the hawks. When the spring/summer foliage is good we give a big area, which...
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    chicken with hurt leg

    it has been a week since leg injury. Happy to report some improvement, long way to go but things are looking up.
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    chicken with hurt leg

    Thanks I have not found any evidence of swelling or mechanical abnormality. Just hope its a sprain. I am worried she may become egg bound due to lack of movement. No egg today. Any advise regarding this. Thanks
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    chicken with hurt leg

    Not sure how long I should expect to see improvement
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    chicken with hurt leg

    The foot is contracted and she holds her leg up. No visible wounds or broken bones that I can tell. Very weak although she has put the leg down and weakly stood on it on day two
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    chicken with hurt leg

    My nephew was holding one of my hens and she got a wing out and left his arms and landed on the ground on her side. My dog was behind us and lunged in and must have punched her nose down on the hen. No feathers or wounds can be found but she is holding her leg up and will not walk. I separated...
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