Help! I have a 3 month old salmon favorelle who has always been a bit of a weak chicken. She was badly pecked as a young pullet, now generally left alone, but is small and mellow. The last 2 days she has been increasingly lethargic. She has been standing in the same spot all day in the run...
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We have four 4 week old chicks we raised outside from eggs with a broody hen, and 2 buff orp chicks that are 3 weeks old (we added them as chicks.) We came home today and one of the 4 week old chicks was badly pecked--her entire neck and rear end bloody and featherless.
We removed her and...
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I have a broody hen on day 7 sitting on foster eggs. She is in the nesting box our two other hens usually use to lay. The two other hens were climbing on her to lay so we put up a wire mesh to keep them out of the box but that means mamma hen is confined to a very small space--ie milk...