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    Egg bound hen

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    Egg bound hen

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    Egg bound hen

    I think one of our hens is egg bound. She has not laid an egg in days. For the last three days her legs have been spread wide and she slowly walks like a penguin. I checked her vent and it was a little dirty with a pale yellow discharge. Today I soaked her rear end in warm water for 10 minutes...
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    Should I let a broody hen raise chicks?

    We did that last year and currently have a broody hens raising four chicks. We live in the mountains of south west Virginia where it's cool. Abby, our broody hen is keeping her chicks warm. At the same time the chicks are adapting to the cooler temperature. We have a heat lamp in their outdoor...
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    Sorry, I just sent the one picture. I just attached an enlargement of "Thing2" I think it is a Cockerel too. I'm hoping it's tail feathers develope. Thank you so much.
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    Returning

    My wife and I have been raising chickens for about six years now. We started when we were living in the suburbs in the outskirts of Raleigh NC. Four years ago we baught a small farm in the Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia and have since retired. We started with a bakers dozed of chicks and now...
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    I enlarged one of the pictures, this is "Thing1" the other bird without tail feathers is "Thing2".
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    Thank you. Our other offspring of same breeds (Rhode Island red and Wyandotte) is a day younger but does not have tail feathers. I'm hoping he grows some.
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    I thought that I posted 4. I'll add more thanks
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    I thought that I posted four pictures. I'll add the rest to the thread. Thanks.
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    Pullet or Cockerel?

    One of our hens hatched thesonths ago. The father is a Rhode Island red and we believe the hen a gold laced Wyandotte. One of the chickens has dveloped some nice tail feathers like that of a rooster. The other chicken is much stockier but has no tail feathers yet. I'm guessing that we have two...
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    Aggressive rooster

    We have two roosters and twenty-two hens. Each rooster has their preferred hens and visa-versa. The rooster in question is a Rhode Island Red named Redman. He is very rough when mating his hens and has nearly removed all of the feathers from their saddles. We had tried chicken saddles for the...
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    broody hen raising adopted chicks

    One of our Araucana hens , "Smoke" had gone broody several weeks ago and was sitting on 8 eggs, that we gradually switched with ceramic eggs. We were looking to get six chicks in the spring and decided to take advantage of Smoke broodiness. After a doing a lot of research we decided to wait...
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    Chickens killed, neck eaten

    Again, thanks for everyone's input. It has been very helpful. After speaking with friends who have raised chickens for years and the responses I got here I agree that the predator was apparently a large bird of prey; hawk or owl. I examined the scene this morning and discovered a collection of...
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    Chickens killed, neck eaten

    Thanks for the replies. I was thinking a mink, but from the replies it may be a bird of prey. I hear owls hoot all of the time from the woods around our farm. I will be checking the one hen that was killed, but not eaten for bite marks in an effort to determine what killed her.
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    Chickens killed, neck eaten

    Would a hawk or other bird of prey go under a crawl space where the one partially eaten chicken was found? I have two roosters in the yard, a barred rock and a large Rhode Island red. Neither appeared to have been injured.
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    Chickens killed, neck eaten

    We lost two of our hens this evening to a predator, that I'm guessing is a weasel of some kind. I had been working in the fenced back yard where the chickens were all day. I left less than two hours before sun set. Upon my return home maybe a half an hour after sunset, I discovered that I was...
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    open wound on my chicken's back

    Thank you so much for everyone's response to my post. While checking over all of the chickens we found another hen with a less serious injury on her back. Both appeared to have been made by a bird of prey. My wife used some of her paramedic skills to treat the first hen. She trimmed some of the...
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