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  1. Raderby Ranchin

    hurt leg help

    Her leg is fine, healed nicely. But she's still is broody all healed up and she doesn't produce eggs and is trying to kill my chicks. Wife wants to send her to freezer camp.
  2. Raderby Ranchin

    hurt leg help

    Don't know if this is normal coloring for bruising on a chicken... I will let it air out over night and take new photos tomorrow. The swelling is almost completely gone. She lays in nesting box all day. S by know if I should make her stay out or let her rest.
  3. Raderby Ranchin

    hurt leg help

    We have been cleaning foot with peroxide then apply ointment and bandage it
  4. Raderby Ranchin

    hurt leg help

    Bubble is still there. I think I is a clot under the scale that has dried.
  5. Raderby Ranchin

    Hens killed and ate baby chick

    Grit? They get grit and my backyard is full of small pebbles. But I will lay out smore. Lately they haven't been fighting. I gave them some new bug eating space. And one of my hens (which is has gone broody) is recovering from an injury and always in the nesting box.
  6. Raderby Ranchin

    Hens killed and ate baby chick

    I feed them layena, scratch, mealworms, table scraps and let them eat the buffet of slugs, bugs and lizards in the backyard.
  7. Raderby Ranchin

    hurt leg help

    Swelling is down some. Color coming back. Not limping as much, but keeps her foot up while standing.
  8. Raderby Ranchin

    hurt leg help

    Still bleeding, no. We left Friday morning and came back Sunday morning and saw it. I have her in a separate cage now. She was limping when we got home. We cleaned it up some. We are going to get gauze and ointment. But I do know if I should try to pop the bubble. As far as pain... She let us...
  9. Raderby Ranchin

    Killer Chicken

    Thanks for the advice. No I can't have a roo. Space is small but but I let them out a few hours 2 or 3 times a day. She is not a meat breed. She is boney. She is my only green egg layer and my wife's favorite. I will try separating her. If she must go, I with try out my first harvest. But I...
  10. Raderby Ranchin

    hurt leg help

    Think she got her foot caught in nesting box and started panicking to pull it out. Scales missing on both sides. There is a hard bubble. What do I do?
  11. Raderby Ranchin

    Killer Chicken

    My Ameraucana, Feather is at the top of pecking order. She pecks and tries to pull off feathers from my Buff Orpington, Chicka constantly who WAS her challenger. By the way it looks Chicka does not challenge her anymore. Feather breaks her eggs. I use to think she would just be impatient...
  12. Raderby Ranchin

    Hens killed and ate baby chick

    I'm thinking this maybe related. My Ameraucana, Feather is at the top of pecking order. She pecks and tries to pull off feathers from my Buff Orpington, Chicka constantly who was her challenger. By the way it looks Chicka does not challenge her anymore. Feather breaks her eggs. I use to...
  13. Raderby Ranchin

    Hens killed and ate baby chick

    Dragg 80... Thanks. Thank you everyone. The move to put them together was an emergency. I had them in the house but my dog wouldn't leave them alone and an unrelated incident destroyed their makeshift broody box. It was the middle of the week and too late in the day to build. Their relocation...
  14. Raderby Ranchin

    Hens killed and ate baby chick

    Yes the hens can see them. I have a small fenced in dirt bath that is attached to the coop over run. I closed it off. The one that died was small enough to fit thru a part I didn't notice was big enough for her to fit.
  15. Raderby Ranchin

    Hens killed and ate baby chick

    Thank you everyone for your condolences. It is a reality check. I thought I had sweet chickens. I was willing to accept my chickens rejecting the chicks till older. But to kill and eat a chick... They are predators and a source of food.
  16. Raderby Ranchin

    Hens killed and ate baby chick

    2 of my chickens have gone broody. Was this cause by their cannibalis?
  17. Raderby Ranchin

    Chicken Names- whats your chickens name?

    My 6 chickens had names, but I think I'm going unname them and stop naming my future chickens. They just did the unthinkable to a Cream Brabanter chick. BR: Betty Ameraucana: Feather Light Brahma: Legs 2 Black Australorps: Thing 1 & Thing 2 Buff Orpington: Chicka And 11 chicks that won't be...
  18. Raderby Ranchin

    Hens killed and ate baby chick

    I've read about chicken beating up chicks, and killing other full grown chickens, but I've never read or heard about them eating another bird especially a chicken.. I'm shocked and upset. She was one of 2 Cream Bratanter. I believe the other to be a roo. So I won't have that breed to raise...
  19. Raderby Ranchin

    Hens killed and ate baby chick

    Why would they do that? I bought 12 baby chicks and they have all been around hens for a week. The hens really don't bother them. They are 4 weeks old now. I have them separated. One chick is an escape artists got into the hens area. I dont know which chicken did it. Maybe all but the chick was...
  20. Raderby Ranchin

    Unknow breed, anyone have any ideas?

    Maybe the breeding got out of control and you have mixed breed chicks.lol Chick #2 looks like a Barred Rock.
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