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    We lost two more today due to raccoons

    One of them was dh beloved pet, i told dh to put out the antifreeze again. Yeah. I know. But it worked before and as a suburbanite I’m not able to set a leg trap and shoot or shovel them and it’s not like any other species gets into them. Raccoons are the worst. I don’t want their diseases, and...
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    My neighbor won’t stop complaining

    I have six hens, under the county limit. When they lay, they sing egg songs. Sometimes I can dissuade them with a little shouting or feed, but normally that’s what they do. My neighbor is on me constantly to shut them up. She, I swear truth, videoed a recording of them claiming they were louder...
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    One gamefowl hen that's gone broody. As of today two new Buff Orph chicks. Put them together or no?

    One gamefowl hen that's gone broody in my flock. . As of today two new Buff Orph chicks in the flock, So bought them. So. At this point, .put them together or no? They're going to have to stay in the same coop as it is. But the chicks would be in a separate enclosure. This gamefowl hen's...
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    Injured hen was reintegrated into the coop. Other chickens tried to eat her. We put her down.

    Two of my hens got hit with a raccoon around mother's day. One survived. I nurtured her along with cottage cheese, soft mash after I saw her beak was gone. Observed that the other girls didn't seem to really bully her, not even in a feeding situation. I made her coop with the other ones...
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    Injured hen is consuming and defecating OK. What do I do now?

    She lost most of her upper beak in a raccoon strike almost three weeks ago. There's a rounded off stump where it used to be, and on observing her outside, this appears to be permanent. I got her to eat on some cottage cheese. That progressed to just making pullet mash out of feed and hot water...
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    Hen in raccoon strike appears permanently disabled.

    Raccoon strike a couple weeks ago took out what I feared was an eye and a beak. But she kept the eye and has enough beak to eat small seed and mealworms. For now I mash chicken feed pellets with water for her. Her eating, defecation, normal chicken sounds, wanting to be with the flock, even...
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    Injured hen lays down while feeding. What to do now?

    The hen got injured 12 days ago from a raccoon strike. Until the healing process happened, I couldn't see how well it was going, but well, she kept her eye and at least two thirds of her upper beak. For almost a week, the hen would only drink rarely and not eat. After that she started accepting...
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    When chicken won't eat, syringe feeding can get them to.

    I discovered this after doing this to two birds now. The first was sick. The second got half her beak ripped off by a raccoon. In both cases, the birds seemed inclined to give up by not eating anything. The sick one was not drinking either, so on Day 2 I started admining a syringe mixture four...
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    A raccoon ate my chicken when we went to dinner, part 2

    For background, https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/we-went-to-dinner-and-meanwhile-a-raccoon-ate-our-chicken.1468318/page-2 The coon came back the next night. He dragged poor White Owl's carcass out of the garbage can, consumed it and left...parts...all over the yard. The trap went out...
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    We went to dinner, and meanwhile a raccoon ate our chicken

    We went for a night out, and a raccoon killed one of my chickens. Another has facial injuries and is resting in an egg box. White Owl, I'm so sorry. You were the third hen we lost to raccoons, and we lost the others the same way--all prolific layers, all nice personalities, and all in this case...
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    RIP Esme, she died today

    Esme was my first hen, an ISA Brown. She was a shelter animal, but I estimate her age at about 4-5. A few months ago, I noticed Esme not coming out of the coop. Her butt was bright red. I treated it with Vetricyn and gave her some Amoxicillin. The redness abated and she went back to eating and...
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    My hen Esme is dying, and I don't see a good prognosis so the plan is comfort care.

    My hen Esme was my first chicken and an Isa Brown. She came from the shelter and laid one egg a day. I would say that at the time we got her, she was a year and a half, maybe two. Meaning she might be close to four years old now. I found Esme in the coop today. Swollen belly and not eating or...
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    Missing hen--dog attack part 2

    This morning, my SO let the chickens out. Fifteen seconds later, there was a commotion. My neighbor's pit bull husky mix had again breached the fence and was chasing the chickens. There were down feathers all over from our head hen who remains missing. From past experience, such chickens have...
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    My hen Pearlie is dying

    Pearlie is a Golden Comet. Age unknown, pound chicken, but has been a near-daily layer since we got her in November. On Friday, she was fine. Laid an egg, running around. On Saturday, she didn't get off the roost when I opened the coop. Her eyes were closed. I opened the coop pretty early, so...
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    Hen acting broody, breast feathers mostly gone, red streaks on skin, smells bad

    I have a hen, 2 to 2.5 years old. Three days ago she started acting broody but no egg came out. Her tail was up. When I took her out of the box, we found that she was missing most of her breast feathers and the skin had red streaks in it. The area smelled like infection that permeated our...
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    Newcastle Disease reported in San Mateo County, fair cancels poultry exhibits this year

    Due to the threat to the poultry industry in California, the California Department of Food and Agriculture recommended that the San Mateo County Fair suspend its poultry show for the 2019 fair season, according to San Mateo County Fair officials. “Our Board will work with the local 4-H and FFA...
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    Hen can't stand on right foot and is panting

    My hen emerged from some bushes dragging her right foot. The main pad is twice the size of her left foot and the area is warm. We put her in a covered hospital cage in the shade outdoors (it's about 75 degrees) with water and food. She's been panting and breathing fast but won't drink water...
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    Does it matter if I leave the lay lights on?

    I had mostly June 2018 chicks, so I got a lay light for them in November. The June pullets started laying then, and the older ones kept laying. With the photoperiod, am aware I can turn off the light. However, my chooks now don't go into the coop willingly unless there's a light there, and...
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    Two of my chickens taken by predators this morning

    My Barred Rock and Black Copper Marans hens got taken by predators this morning. My guess based on temperature is that this happened around 8-9 a.m. I walked out about noon and found feathers/skin from the Barred Rock but no bird. The Marans was decapitated with her skin peeled back over one...
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    Lay light schedule

    We installed a lay light in the sleep coop currently housing four 14-week-olds. When should this light be on?
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