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    Abdominal tumor or ? what to do?

    My poor Rhode Island has been eating and pooping like a healthy hen, but when I noticed her waddling I picked her up (she is very people shy, so I don't usually handle her) and her entire abdomen from below her wishbone to her legs to her cloaca is like a huge taught balloon. I gave her a warm...
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    Pullet rooster(s) killed a hen!

    I know roosters can be a pain in the ass, and I am pretty good at ethology, but I did not anticipate pullets would kill a hen almost their size, their age. We hatched 3 babies that are half banty, Easter egger?/Wyandotte mutts, now several months old, 2/3 grown, two roosters (dang!) and one...
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    My healthy, well-fed hens have stopped laying for 2+ months. It's a mystery, help me solve it?

    Thanks all. I hadn't though of internal parasites, that could be part of the problem. I know they aren't laying elsewhere. My boyfriend and I are both wildlife biologists, so we'd know if another predator was raiding their coop, since few critters enter our property without us eventually finding...
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    My healthy, well-fed hens have stopped laying for 2+ months. It's a mystery, help me solve it?

    I have five 2.5 year old hens (Buffs, a RIR mutt, Wellsummer, Polish banty) four 7 month old hens (2 Aracuanas, Brahma, Barred rock), one rooster (Aracuana) , and they are all free-ranging during the day, coop at night. All but my 2 Buffs have stopped laying. They tapered off to zero about 8...
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