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    Help! Chicken's legs wobbly, getting worse!

    Side note: we hatched these chicks ourselves so they were not vaccinated against marek's disease, but they've been kept isolated from our older birds who of course have no symptoms. I don't know how prevalent or contagious the disease can be.
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    Help! Chicken's legs wobbly, getting worse!

    I have a five week old chicken that seems to be having issues walking without wobbling. Her legs shake when she walks and she keeps falling onto her side or butt. She has a super long stride and picks her feet up much higher than normal to walk. It just started this morning and I've never seen...
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    Hen is lethargic, won't eat. Advice?

    Okay, thank you. I'll try that in the morning.
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    Hen is lethargic, won't eat. Advice?

    Well we have tried that in the past but our vet doesn't know much about chickens and has suggested putting them down everytime we bring one in. Only one actually died of her illness, and all the others survived with home remedies/surgery, so I'm not sure if he'll be of any help.
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    Hen is lethargic, won't eat. Advice?

    We have a hen that has been a bit of a loner since we got her about a month ago. However, in the last week she not only spends most of her time away from the flock, but she stands there and seems pretty unresponsive. She's lost a lot of weight and has no interest in food. She does drink lots of...
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    Our chickens are very depressed

    I have one rooster and two hens that have recently become extremely depressed. They don't eat hardly at all, they don't want to get out of their cage in the mornings, and when they do, they just lay in the barn or on the porch all day. I know it's because just last week we lost the main hen of...
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    12 Chickens Killed in Coop

    Wow I didn't even think of a pig, but that's a good guess. I know we have bears, and I've read that very few florida Panthers have been documented this far north but there have been a few cases of some as far up as Georgia. Right now, I'm assuming a few stray dogs...
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    12 Chickens Killed in Coop

    Huh I didn't even think of a badger, but I've seen them around our place. There's no holes in the roof buy maybe they could get through the hardware cloth?
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    12 Chickens Killed in Coop

    Yes, we are definitely gonna put traps and a camera up. I've reinforced the remaining coop pretty well, but electric fencing would also be a good idea...
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    12 Chickens Killed in Coop

    Thank you! It was terrible, especially since they are pets. I'm just glad they didn't get into the third coop.
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    12 Chickens Killed in Coop

    Yes all of our runs are covered with hardware cloth and then metal tin roofing on top of that.
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    12 Chickens Killed in Coop

    That's what I've heard. We had that happen once with chicken wire, but they haven't been able to reach through the mesh, or slash a hole in it this big.
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    12 Chickens Killed in Coop

    Wow that's terrible! I'm so sorry! Ironically, I found two stray huskies wandering around our coops on the same night this happened, but I brought them inside before feeding the chickens that night and they stayed with me, so I know it wasn't them.
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    12 Chickens Killed in Coop

    Yeah, I'd be surprised if a raccoon could get through the predator wire though. It's the strong metal stuff with the really small squares. We had one get through chicken wire before, so we switched and haven't had a problem until now. We also leave cat food out for things like opossums and...
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    12 Chickens Killed in Coop

    Are those the same as bobcats? I know we have both around here, but I heard that they generally carry their prey off and the chickens are missing without evidence. Of course it's a possibility though. I wish we had had a camera out just to see what it was.
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