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    Matching eggs to the right hen, and potential egg bound issue?

    Thanks for all the info everyone! Helene has been fine and not egg bound, phew! All the girls have been healthy and laying lots of these multi-color egg treasures!
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    Matching eggs to the right hen, and potential egg bound issue?

    Thanks for the info on the Cuckoo distinction! Love learning more about my girls. And thanks for sharing your lovely ladies!
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    Matching eggs to the right hen, and potential egg bound issue?

    Thank you! I'll keep watching her behavior this week and see if she has any other signs. I haven't noticed the low flat tale behavior, just the up and down movement while sitting, so I'll keep observing. Good to know about the poop! 😅 It's definitely been more irregular since they've been...
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    Matching eggs to the right hen, and potential egg bound issue?

    Hello chicken friends! I'd love to get some opinions on matching the eggs I'm getting from my hens with which hen is laying them. My research seems to think all my breeds lay some kind of brown egg, but we get green eggs most days as well and I'm not sure which hen it's from! My three hens as...
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    When to know to discontinue treatment?

    Thank you for posting this. I'm in a similar situation. My girl has been in a chicken hospital in our spare room for nearly three weeks (after an eye infection and then pecking attack). She's slowly declining despite all my intense efforts with medicine and food. Slowly she's gone from hard food...
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    How to stop self harm - chicken with ear injury keeps reopening wound. Help!

    If it is MG, does this mean she can never rejoin her flock? I'm not even sure yet if she will recover enough to do this since they attacked her after her first eye incident. Or would they likely already have been exposed this whole time so she could rejoin? We are taking it a day at a time right...
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    How to stop self harm - chicken with ear injury keeps reopening wound. Help!

    No new birds to the flock and I know the previous owners raised all of these from chicks, but I don't know any of their activity prior to us being here. But looking back at photos from when we first moved in, I do think it has something that happened not long after we moved in (or at least no...
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    How to stop self harm - chicken with ear injury keeps reopening wound. Help!

    Thank you, yes her pale comb has happened over the past two months, it used to be fairly bright red. I think she's confused by the cage and my attempt to put a roost bar for her may have been too close to one end for her to turn around (I've been adjusting it to find the most comfortable spot)...
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    Hello from a backyard in Portland, OR!

    Thank you! Been scouring various websites trying to determine but wasn't sure. I think you're right about the this, now that I see images of those breeds!
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    Hello from a backyard in Portland, OR!

    Ooo, I will definitely check it out!
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    How to stop self harm - chicken with ear injury keeps reopening wound. Help!

    Hi friends, small update that Eunice made it through last night without reopening the wound, so small win. However now her good eye looks weird, like kind of dark as if there is blood behind it. She seems to be in a daze and has barely moved since yesterday afternoon. And for the first time she...
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    How to stop self harm - chicken with ear injury keeps reopening wound. Help!

    @SmiYa0126 she did make it through the night without reopening it, but only because she seems to be in a daze. She is getting a lot of medicine, but today is the first day she isn't eating and her other eye suddenly looks weird so it may be a deeper issue. But the ear does look scabbed over...
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    How to stop self harm - chicken with ear injury keeps reopening wound. Help!

    Thank you! I hadn't heard of the donut method for a collar, I will try that and see if it helps.
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    Hello from a backyard in Portland, OR!

    Hello everyone! I am a new chicken mama, having inherited four lovely hens in a backyard coop with the house my family just bought, as the previous owners were moving out of state. We are in Portland, Oregon. We've had them about four months now and I've been trying to learn as much as I can as...
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    How to stop self harm - chicken with ear injury keeps reopening wound. Help!

    Here are some photos I just took. I tried to clean her up as best I could yesterday and she managed to not scratch in the night so it at least healed for half a day. But this morning her good eye looks like it has a blood blister in it of some kind and she hasn't eaten since yesterday and won't...
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