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Yeah I have tried separating a different hen a while back and it didn't work at all but I think I will try again with this one. The other one we had to rehome, she was completely nuts, chicken jail just made her crazier. The new bully isn't nuts, just mean. How long do you typically separate...

Hi All I have a bit of a pecking order problem. I have four hens, and three of them are just beating the hell out of the fourth one. I have read through past forum posts about chicken jail for the bully and those little blinders you can put on them, but its 3 out of four this time. One is...

So far she is tucking it up under her when she is standing but seems able to walk on it fine. I don't know if I can get a splint on her, she is named Squirrely for a reason

Yes it is flat on the ground, or I would have reeeeally freaked out. So if no bleeding and she doesn't seem to be in pain, it will just heal crooked?

This morning I heard a huge racket, and when I ran outside I found one of my hens hanging upside down from the ramp leading to their henhouse. Her middle talon had got caught in one of the rungs on the ramp.I got her down, and she seems ok except that her talon is bent at a funny angle. She's...

Ok thank you so much, I really appreciate all the help

No rooster, just the four hens. If she's pulling out her own feathers, do I need to do anything about it, will she stop at some point? I can't find the feathers anywhere, nest or otherwise, no idea how long she's been doing it. We just noticed when my husband was holding her up so I could get...

in other words, the other two hens went into molt at exactly the same time, so since these two had the same symptoms at the same time, thats why I was guessing molt. Is there some telltale signs to help me tell the difference, if I look closely?

Oh yeah they have a ton of room, the free range in the backyard and they have room to spare in their sleeping quarters. Peckiong their bellies bald? I'd understand if it was their backs, but their bellies? I jsut figured it was a molt because they are from the same set of chicks and the exact...

So I had two hens go through a molt in the late fall last year. They lost their feathers around their heads and butts. My other two hens are going bald and both have naked bellies. I'm just trying to verify that this is what is going on before my imagination gets the best of me. Her belly is way...

Aveca, she looks almost exactly like your hen but with a bigger comb. My husband was finally able to grab her during daylight hours to see the bottoms of her feet, they are grey. So I guess that settles that?

I got her from a friend who I think got her from a hatchery. The eye is darker in the bottom/back part of the eye, but a pretty bright amber color in the front/forward part. It just seems like its a lot brighter than described on breed sites Does she look as if she isn't an australorp?

This is the first time I have tried to post a picture, here it goes she's in the foreground of the picture. She's adpoted from a friend (all of them are) so I don't know where she came from or if she's some sort of mix, they just told me she was an Australorp. She's a huge moose of a bird...

This is the first time I have tried to post a picture, here it goes she's in the foreground of the picture. She's adpoted from a friend (all of them are) so I don't know where she came from or if she's some sort of mix, they just told me she was an Australorp. She's a huge moose of a bird...

This is the first time I have tried to post a picture, here it goes she's in the foreground of the picture. She's adpoted from a friend (all of them are) so I don't know where she came from or if she's some sort of mix, they just told me she was an Australorp. She's a huge moose of a bird...

So Peeps had black eyes....but they seem to be changing to amber. ?!? Is that normal? She's about a year and a half old.

Yeah they told me the same but then the special orders guy said that their suppliers only carried up to 4 feet. I'm going to either buy 2 rolls and knit them together or I will just get bare wire

they have actually been at my place since last summer, the bullying thing only just started in earnest in the past month. I'm so bummed out abot it as I see how much calmer things are with her not out there

I've got 5 hens and one of them is developing into quite a bully, but really only picking on one hen in particular, maybe two. They are about 1 1/2 yrs old, adopted from a friend, and they all got along quite well until this past month. The bully hen will go so far as to stop eating snacks...

I'm in Oakland so the only feed stores I've been to have, well, feed. Not so much on the non-food related supplies. I can try extending my search to feedstores further out if thats where I should be looking, I just didn't know if I was just looking at the wrong type of place