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    Chicken(s) have strange painful foot problems, please help!

    We have mostly RI Reds. In a recently built large shed/coop there are approx. 20 hens (the ones in there are RI Reds). No roosters in this area. They are all about 3 years old and all are laying eggs (hay in nests is changed ~daily). A few of our chickens have had this horrible condition and the...
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    Fox attacked a hen yesterday - now she's egg bound please help!

    Yesterday afternoon our guinea hens and peacocks alerted me to a big problem in the yard; I ran out screaming and a fox took off but not before trying to grab a chicken. When I saw her lying on the ground I picked her up. At first she tried to fight me (probably thought I was the fox trying to...
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    Should we separate our older chickens from our roosters?

    We have 8 older hens (4+ years old). They were never with a rooster before. We got 24 chicks in mid-April; four NH Reds, four Barred Rocks, the rest Easter Eggers. We bought them at a local grain/pet store. We were told they were all pullets--no guarantees, of course. It didn't take long to...
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