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My hens coop and run is under a sixty foot tree. I discovered my hens eating what I assumed was rat or mice poop. I only have three hens so every morning I have been picking them up out of the coop and transferring them to a 400 sq’ area that is rodent poop free. Thirty traps later and nothing...

I found this paper on Oxford Poultry Science: Avian Virus-Induced Tumors E. L. Stubbs A. M. Wallbank Abstract THE first evidence that a virus could cause cancer was the discovery by Ellerman and Bang (1908) that chicken leukemia could be transferred by filtered blood. The transfer of a tumor...

Not knowing what the masses are was part of what made the decision difficult. The Vet was not specific and said definitive answers are only given by necropsy. I don't know anything about how viruses relate to cancer but I definitely remember the Vet saying "or" - cancer or a virus. It was...

Yesterday after 3 hours at the Vet office deliberating between euthanasia and treatment- I chose treatment option with a re-evaluation at the Vet's office in 14 days. Abigail- my 14 month old Australorpe has a distended abdomen and secondary respiratory infection. The x-ray showed masses in...

Could you expand on: “Behavior training is work but a person can and I do because I am alpha Chick, change the pecking order. You just have to decide: you do it and fix it or let them do it. She will probably make it through and get tired of it but she may not. So you ask yourself, do we prevent...

I did the playpen method from 8 weeks to 4 months. My two original hens were 7 +/- months when the younger two were born. One of the younger pullets has always been very assertive. She often tried dominating the other pullet by standing on anything that would make her taller while vocalizing in...

I have my depressed hen in the coop isolated with food and water. She is roosting and panting. Should I force her to be in the part of the coop with her water and food and in sight of the others? I have put her down there twice but she goes back to hiding.

No loose feathers yet. She sat in the laying box all morning but is eating and drinking when I bring the food to her. I just arrived home after 5 days at 3 this morning so after I get their area disinfected and sorted out I am going to put her in the coop which is in the middle of the other...

Thanks! I always thought the pecking order was self prophetic. A sick one gets pecked on and maligned and never allowed to recuperate. I have her in her own run convalescing. We had our first rain and weather change so she isn’t feeling herself and with the other hens not allowing her...

She hasn’t molted this year or at least not yet. Sorry for the choppy responses- I am a newbie at this sight plus very emotional about my hen being maligned. The pecking order seems to touch a very sensitive part of my soul. I am very much for the underdog I guess.

The pecked on hen is 1.5 yrs and quit laying eggs 2-3 months ago. I assumed it was the heat but think otherwise now.

Their roost is about 20sq’

I have four hens. I introduced two about four months ago and it went smoothly. Between 2-4 weeks ago the two youngest started laying. The second one in the pecking order is now lowest. She isn’t coming out of the coop. The other three hens are being so nasty to her. It is like they never met...