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    11 chickens missing, 2 dead

    It's been dark here for a few hours but I just went outside to close to chicken coop doors because I was late getting home and my husband forgot (although the chickens are my responsibility and not his). I turned on the outside lights and can usually see inside our chicken coop but didn't this...
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    Red Mites!!

    This afternoon when I went to collect eggs I grabbed the side of the nest box and came away with a handful of red mites! I saw where they were hiding between the cracks in the nest box, but didn't see them anywhere else. I hope that the infestation isn't anywhere else! I've never had this...
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    Stop Vent Pecking?

    I thought that my chickens my be prolapsing, then I thought that a predator was getting into the coop, but then I realized that they are pecking each other to death. I have lost 4 chickens to what I think is vent pecking....I find them dead with gaping bloody vents! I checked my other chickens...
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    Is it a predator?

    I've had 4 birds die in the past 2 1/2 weeks, one at a time a few days apart. The only wounds I can find are gaping bloody holes at their vent. When the first hen died, I thought maybe it was prolapse, but would 4 of my birds prolapse so closely together? Could it be a predator? What would...
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    Why are my hens dying?

    I started out with 11 hens, 3 red stars, 3 buff orpingtons, and 5 buff/welsummer crosses. About 2 1/2 weeks ago I found a red star dead in the coop, her intestine was also hanging out. I figured it was prolapse and a fluke, but a week later, it happened to a 2nd red star. Later the same...
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