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    Can roosters cause prolapsed vent? How to treat?

    Update: today when bathing the hen and gently picking at the black and yellow tissue, a good amount of it broke off. There was a little blood when this happened. I left the remainder on the hen since trying to pull it off would have caused much more severe bleeding. I lubricated the area and...
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    Can roosters cause prolapsed vent? How to treat?

    When I put it back in, she "poops" it out within 1-10 minutes. It's fairly hard to the touch, I think she thinks it's a poop. Once it is back inside her, the vent muscles contract like she is about to poop or pass an egg. Once it is out the contractions mostly subside. I'll keep soaking her in...
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    Can roosters cause prolapsed vent? How to treat?

    pre bath ^^^ bath :
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    Can roosters cause prolapsed vent? How to treat?

    The prolapse looks like a mushroom now. I've been trying to keep it moist with preparation h but it's now a hard and dark semi sphere, and the tissue underneath that connects to the hen is soft. Not sure how long I should be keeping this up. I apply it twice a day and try to softly work the...
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    Prolapsed hen? treatment not working, please advise.

    what happened to the hen? I am on day 4 of a similar issue
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    Can roosters cause prolapsed vent? How to treat?

    Update: I have the hen down to 6 hours of light per day to stop egg production. I have been applying preparation h and pushing the prolapse back in, but it comes out 1-10 min later each time. There is also a membrane like liquid (with a little blood) that is coming out of the vent sometimes...
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    Can roosters cause prolapsed vent? How to treat?

    What are the signs that she is egg bound? I pushed the vent back in last night and this morning, both times it came out again in a few minutes. I did notice an egg was coming this morning. What do I do?
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    Can roosters cause prolapsed vent? How to treat?

    My automatic coop door opener didn't open today, and I had to manually open the chicken coop door around 9am. It usually opens around sunrise. So today my 15 chickens (2 roosters) were stuck inside for almost 3 hours. My two roosters (just over 1 year old) can be rather rough with the hens...
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    Hen not allowed back in the group

    Is the dog cage within sight of the other hens and rooster?
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    When to cull a rooster showing signs of aggression?

    Regarding a rooster raised in a multi generational flock, I am considering having a hen hatch some fertilized eggs (not from my current roosters), and let the current roosters and older hens teach any cockerels some things before culling these roosters. I am heavily leaning on getting rid of the...
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    When to cull a rooster showing signs of aggression?

    Respectfully, these are livestock, not pets. Edit: And the hens need to be picked up from time to time for their sake. If the rooster gets in the way of this then he is a bad rooster and needs to go. I don't see this as arguable. Edit#2: I seem to recall reading that what you are suggesting is...
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    When to cull a rooster showing signs of aggression?

    Well that is the plan. I'm not going to go smack him for no reason, but I will create a situation, repeatedly, where I am showing that I am the dominant rooster - I will pick up the hens whenever I want and parade them around and ignore him. If he repeatedly has a problem with this and attacks...
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    When to cull a rooster showing signs of aggression?

    I have the chickens in an area enclosed by a poultry fence, far away from the one neighbor that we do have and far away and inaccessible from visitors or delivery people. My children are far too young to even be able to get outside by themselves, let alone into the chicken area. So these aren't...
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    When to cull a rooster showing signs of aggression?

    Has the line been crossed for culling then? I mean I did pick up the hens and the hens complained. He doesn't charge if I am holding a hen and the hen does not complain. Where is the line? Regarding the breeding, it was my understanding that cockerels are often rough with hens when the...
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    When to cull a rooster showing signs of aggression?

    I have two 10 month old roosters. A RIR and a Barred Rock. The RIR once, about 4 months ago, jumped me when I picked up a hen and the hen complained. I had to smack him away pretty hard with the back of my hand. Since then this rooster has not shown any signs of aggression towards me whatsoever...
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