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    Could our rooster be injuring himself while mating?

    I have a red-lense flashlight which works pretty good. The only thing that stinks about having to trim is spurs is that he has in fact had to use them several times now in defense of himself/the hens. But they're just wayyyy too long. Where I live, you'll see feral chickens in the Walmart...
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    Could our rooster be injuring himself while mating?

    The photos show as having been posted on my end. And we did notice some blood on one of his spurs
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    Could our rooster be injuring himself while mating?

    Photos of injury:(sorry they're not that great. He rarely stands still)
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    Could our rooster be injuring himself while mating?

    Hello all! Hope everyone is doing well. Our rooster has insanely long spurs, and I'm wondering if he's accidentally stabbing himself during mating sometimes. He had a wound at the upper base of his tail awhile back that looked pretty darn bloody. We cleaned and treated it and he healed up...
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    Treating newly hatched chicks for mites

    Before any of the eggs hatched, we'd dust momma hen pretty good each night with DE and doesn't seem like it made one bit of a difference. Apple cider vinegar spray neither
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    Treating newly hatched chicks for mites

    Hello wonderful community members. Hopefully this is posted in the right place, apologies if it's not. We recently had a hen get really broody, and one night when we went out to candle some of the eggs, we noticed that the poor girl was swarming with mites. I clean the coop bi-weekly and have...
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    Bleeding/wounds in the crevice where rear toe meets leg

    I found the @ I discovered the cause!!!!! Our dumb sweet gentleman rooster and the junglefowl hen we rescued keep trying to fight other wild chickens through the chicken wire fence! Just witnessed the rooster basically "hold hands" with an extremely juvenile wild rooster outside of the fence...
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    Bleeding/wounds in the crevice where rear toe meets leg

    As of now all I have at home is triple antibiotic ointment including pain relief. Basic generic grocery store stuff. Spray sounds appealing and I definitely think that would be easier to apply for these two specific birds. Caught a rat in one of two traps I placed near their coop last night...
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    Bleeding/wounds in the crevice where rear toe meets leg

    I will take some this evening
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    Bleeding/wounds in the crevice where rear toe meets leg

    Hey, sorry, just got some time at work to check back on this thread. It could absolutely be rats, as we've had rats attack chickens in the coop before, but after about a week of trapping two or more per day the signs of rodent activity decreased significantly. I'm wondering if they're back now...
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    Bleeding/wounds in the crevice where rear toe meets leg

    The top!!!! Of the toe. Can't believe I didn't specify.
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    Bleeding/wounds in the crevice where rear toe meets leg

    Hey everyone, sorry if this has been asked. I searched every possible sentence variation I could and didn't see a result. So here's the deal. Imagine a chickens foot. The rear toe forms an obtuse angle where it meets the leg. One of our hens recently had minor wounds/bleeding in the crevice...
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    Difficulty of draining water belly / ascites?

    Don't stick her on the left side of the vent is what I've heard over and over and over. Do the right side
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    Difficulty of draining water belly / ascites?

    I literally just posted a topic about my struggles while trying to drain our young hen! If you have a second pair of hands it really shouldn't be difficult from what I've read and watched. Do you have a shortish needle? Do you have tubing between the needle and syringe? With a bit of tubing you...
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    Young Hen Water Belly Issues. Plz Help

    Hello all of you wonderful people. I have a bit of a conundrum on my hands. We have a sub-1yr old Goldenlaced Wyandotte from Murray McMurray who has every single classical sign of water belly. I've done the research, I've spent the sleepless nights, I've watched the YouTube videos etc etc etc...
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