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    Help! Chicken Can't Walk! Can't Use Left Leg!

    I spent over 200.00 on my chicken who has trouble walking on her right leg. She has a huge appetite and drinks. Her dropping look normal, but I have to help her forage because she can't scratch she usually lifts the leg up. Cries out when she sits and it's hard for her to get back up. The vet...
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    Keeping Chickens Free Range

    So sorry it is always such blow when you have given these creatures so much care and in return they provide you with eggs. I would make sure that you make the coop predator proof if he starts again.
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    PLESE HELP!!!! Chickens beak got bit off

    I agree Alison it is a wonderful, heart warming story of faith!
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    PLESE HELP!!!! Chickens beak got bit off

    So true! Just love your story she is an amazing chicken! How old is she? This is my first time raising chickens, I have five and am considering adding to my flock this spring. Mine are two years old. I thought chickens had a longer life span, but hear that they live to about four years.
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    PLESE HELP!!!! Chickens beak got bit off

    So good to see the recent pictures!!!
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    PLESE HELP!!!! Chickens beak got bit off

    I love your story! It goes to show how we should never give up even when it looks grave. Animals are amazing and your Fuzzy Bum is an amazing survival story. What a sweetheart!!!
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    Chicken keeps pecking other chickens and they are getting hurt

    I have a Americana, actually two of them, one is on the top of the pecking order and the other is lower, but she also can be aggressive. They ganged up on one of my other chickens causing some injury, but I was home so I took out the one who was hurt and treated her. She probably got ganged up...
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    Chicken keeps pecking other chickens and they are getting hurt

    I think the Thread title is Keeping Chickens Free range. Kat:)
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    Chicken keeps pecking other chickens and they are getting hurt

    I can't remember which Thread I found, but I wrote down the info. Peppers don't work for most chickens, stop them from pecking, but a product called Bumpa-Bits does. You can't get them here, but Joe found a way ordered 500 and he is charging a reasonable amount for those who are having a problem...
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    Keeping Chickens Free Range

    Love this thread! I have 5 hens and I let them free range after 5:00 for a few hours. They seem content with that and I can supervise while they forage. They come back to the coop around 8:30 for bed and food before they roost in the roost box I have for them. I love the eggs and their different...
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    Impacted crop .....

    Did you get in to see the vet, how is she doing?
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    Impacted crop .....

    If you dislodged the blockage just make sure she gets the feed without others hoarding it. I give my Penny, and my other girls, sardines in olive oil often. It helps their crop and is wonderful protein for them. To put weight on Penny I made sure she got good treats and plenty of feed. She put...
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    Impacted crop .....

    I know exactly what your going through!! I went through the same thing finding out much later that she had an impacted crop. I luckily have a Avian vet near by who suggested surgery. At this point it was our only option or lose her. She also had lost a lot of weight! The vet took an X-ray...
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    Chicken keeps pecking other chickens and they are getting hurt

    She is happy as a clam in the rabbit hutch inside my garage. After the 4 have gone to their roost she is anxious to get into the garage. I open the door and she lets me pick her up to put her in her cozy cage. She settles in right away! I also have found out after letting them free range with me...
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    Help! Injured hen!

    Hang in there I am hoping that eventually I can move her back in, but I will have to wait for my bigger coop which needs a new roof. It's actually a garden shed, but I decided before this happened to the girls that I wanted to make the garden shed into a chicken coop. They have a small roost box...
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