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    Surprising solution to egg-pecking!!!!

    I had not thought of that! It could definitely be a jay. We have them all over and they are very aggressive and mischievous.
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    Surprising solution to egg-pecking!!!!

    I have a RIR, two marans, and three Cream Legbars. This is their first laying season and about a month after they started laying, one (or some) of them started pecking the eggs incessantly. Sometimes we would get 4-5 eggs a day but 3 or more would be pecked and broken. I tried golf balls...
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    Help- Caring for my chickens after dog attack

    My own dogs got ahold of one of my hens today (blue splash marans -- my rarest!) and injured her badly. A huge patch of feathers is missing on her back and her skin is all bloody and raw. Is there anything I can do to treat the area? Will it heal and will the feathers come back? She doesn't...
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    Chicken lying on its side in puddle of poop

    Unfortunately, she did not make it. She was declining quickly, so we decided to end her misery on Tuesday evening. I wish I knew what happened to her. But I am glad she is no longer suffering. It was terrible to see her that way.
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    Chicken lying on its side in puddle of poop

    My chicken has not improved in the past 18 hours. We brought her inside where it is cooler and she stayed in our kitchen overnight. She is now taking heavily diluted gatorade (thanks, ksmith, for the suggestion) but does not seem as interested in food as she was yesterday. We made her...
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    Chicken lying on its side in puddle of poop

    We left our chickens for 36 hours and came home to one lying on her side in a puddle of dried diarrhea in the nesting box, barely moving. The diarrhea was crusted around her vent like "pasting up" is described but she is 10 weeks old, hardly a baby chick. There was a bit of a heat wave this...
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