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    I need HELP i have an injured chicken

    not new wound? 5 days now but I know a lot from this experience if it ever happens again
  2. lady birds

    I need HELP i have an injured chicken

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    Dog attack - chunk of skin torn open

    My hen got attacked 5 nights ago.. one hen is gone with feathers over a long trail so I believe a predator bird got in the coop when the rains swelled the wood and a storage area over the roost opened up so . . other hen has a big ear of skin pulled back she is not walking a lot or eating a lot...
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    I need HELP i have an injured chicken

    last night A predator got into a 4" circle ceiling opening of my coop- I think in rain wood swelled and kicked open hinge (it's fixed now) but I have only the feathers remaining of my big maran and my favorole has a huge gash to her thigh. I have treated the wound and separated her from the...
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    ⠀ chicks only 7 1//2 months old...it's WARM here but no egg laying

    THANK you for the response re the lighting- help for the young hens who had begun to lay then ceased. I started to give them more layer food and less scratch and 3 of them WENT BACK TO LAYING. Only the Morans have not laid again- one of them is HUGE and never has laid. They're a winter...
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    ⠀ chicks only 7 1//2 months old...it's WARM here but no egg laying

    we did check for mites and could not find a thing no signs of a predator.should I just treat for mites anyway? ? thanks for response
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    ⠀ chicks only 7 1//2 months old...it's WARM here but no egg laying

    5 of my hens had begun to lay between 5 1/2 and 6 mo of age then they all stopped. Morans Amerucana favorole & Andulusian
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    ⠀ chicks only 7 1//2 months old...it's WARM here but no egg laying

    (First time for me & chicks: they are 7.5 months old) My chickens get layer feed and lots of green/ fresh herbs as well as oyster shell grit. they are friendly, look healthy have a large enclosed run but they ALL stopped laying in late september. it is still real warm in San Diego. Is this...
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    Cawing chicken w/ hiccups?

    I am a new coops mom and yesterday afternoon I was convinced my 6 hens all 8 months old and all had stopped laying a month ago. (unrelated) were going to die of respiratory infection though they all look and eat healthy. ONE CHICKEN WHEEZED AND SNEEZED FOR 3 HRS. I put her in separation and...
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    Help my chickens stopped laying!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    in Mid October after a very hot San Diego Summer One chicken (hens all born in March began to lay about 5 months old except the fat one) started to brood and that took 20 days to stop but on about day 5 all of the others had stopped laying, some did just just B4 the broody. I have a Faverol...
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    it's mid Oct and my Favorole has been broody for 2 weeks

    I HAVE read a lot and tried a lot of "other ways" but now my instinct tells me I have been giving way too many treats / scratch & freeze dried worms and maybe they just are not getting enough layer food and that is why I have not received one egg in weeks! I still have "Ms broody" in dog crate...
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    it's mid Oct and my Favorole has been broody for 2 weeks

    My broody Hen has no eggs under her and has not laid one in over a week and sadly has not allowed the other hens in ANY of the nest boxes while she puffs up and shrieks at them (& me when I lift her out a few times a day) there is no rooster and she way laying just fine prior to this episode...
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    Pecking

    thank you for the ideas I found other chickens picking on the "pecked One" so I have put her in a separate station nearby so she can get to food and recover.. she has a big scab on the top of her head and I have been treating that per my chicken literature. In her separated home she is a bit...
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    is it cannibal behavior

    I only have 6 hens in my coop/ run: 2 Ameraucana, 2 black Maran, 1 Faverolle and 1 blue andalusian. The later 2 of these stayed in the brooder a bit longer as they were 1 and 2 weeks younger (DOB Mar-7 12 and 18/ 2014). It was a bit of push away for the younger newcomers and then...
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    2 youngest chicks bullied by 4 'toddlers"

    I started with 6 chicks, but one of the the 2 that were a week younger had accidental death when they when first when first given run vs brooder. I replaced with one even a week younger then put 4 oldest in run/ coop full time and left the 2 youngest in brooder. NOW THEY ARE ALL IN THE COOP...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I AM BRAND NEW TO THE CHICKEN world, all for the sake of eggs. I am starting with 2 Cuckoo Marans. One came to me with a rather pasty butt and when that was removed gently there was just bare skin beneath (filling in now that she is 2.5 weeks old. She has grown noticeably slower than my other...
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    making my baby chicks like being petted?

    thanks perhaps my grabbing hand does look scary. . . they do settle when I pet them
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    making my baby chicks like being petted?

    I had "expected" the chicks to run to me when I change water or pick them up to pet them but they run away. the DOB 3-5 cuckoo maran did at first but same DOB ameruancana always ran from from reaching hand. the Salmon faverolle DOB 3-12 has started squeaking when I reach in now too. What is...
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    this is all new: me & my little lady birds

    talked and talked about chickens but decided JUST DO IT. So we bought a pre-made coup and got 2 cuckoo maran and 2 ameruacana and (a week younger ideally these should have been the eldest) 2 salmon faverolle. tryng to keep the temp regular and the butts clean (on 2) has been the biggest...
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