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  1. Heidi Lee

    Review by 'Heidi Lee' in article 'How to treat sour crop and impacted crop and how to know which one you're dealing with'

  2. Heidi Lee

    Swollen red bulge beneath vent

    Ok, thank you. I’ll monitor her.
  3. Heidi Lee

    Swollen red bulge beneath vent

    No, it’s not an egg—nothing hard there.
  4. Heidi Lee

    Swollen red bulge beneath vent

    I washed her because she had some poop stuck to her feathers. I now wonder if the other hens are pecking at her in the coop. Their pecking order is in disarray due to the loss of our rooster and two other hens, plus the addition of a newly hatched chick. I separated her for the night.
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    Swollen red bulge beneath vent

    Can anyone tell me what's happening with my 2-year-old Leghorn? She just laid a well-formed egg. These photos were taken after I washed her backside with Dawn and applied Vetricin and an antifungal ointment. I suspect the problem is on the inside though. The bulge below her vent is red, hot, and...
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    Will mama harm pecked chick?

    Thank you. It is severe, so I brought her inside by herself. She is drinking water, so perhaps there is hope.
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    Will mama harm pecked chick?

    I don’t have Blu Kote. I’ll have to look it up. In the meantime, I’ll keep her inside. Dang, chickens are vicious!
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    Will mama harm pecked chick?

    Together, I meant, not to whether….
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    Will mama harm pecked chick?

    Hello everyone. My 2- week old chick just got out and had her neck pecked raw. I reunited her with her mama, who promptly pecked the chick’s neck, presumably because it is red. Can I keep them to whether if I use Vetericyn and bandage her skinny little neck? Or will she be killed by her own mother?
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    Bare backed hen doesn’t grow feathers

    She is much better. The saddle did the trick. Just remember to take it off once in a while so she can groom.
  11. Heidi Lee

    Hen sounds like squeaky goose

    It was constant. I broke my wrist so I had to just coop her for the night. By morning it was gone. Phew!
  12. Heidi Lee

    Hen sounds like squeaky goose

    Hello again, incredibly helpful people. One of my Wyandottes is making a constant sound, “Aaaaaah squeak! Aaaaaah squeak!” She is otherwise acting normally, free ranging with the others. She did attack another hen tho, which left her a little bloodied. What to you make of her constant sound...
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    Bare backed hen doesn’t grow feathers

    It’s helpful to reframe the problem as the dang rooster, not the hen. I have seen him save the hens from hawk attacks but beyond that he is just a bully—I’m not trying to raise chicks. They are free range so hawks etc. are a threat. I will keep her in her saddle and away from him and await the...
  14. Heidi Lee

    Bare backed hen doesn’t grow feathers

    She was mostly separate for three weeks but I had one other hen in with her for a week and also brought her out to a fenced in area for a week so the others could see and interact with her. Then I supervised as they all hung out together. I learned a lot from all of you here at BC—very grateful...
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    Bare backed hen doesn’t grow feathers

    Ok, I will get her special protein and a good saddle. She does seem to be my rooster’s favorite, so this might be just what she needs. Many thanks for your help!
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    Bare backed hen doesn’t grow feathers

    One rooster, nine hens. I will investigate hen saddles—don’t know much about them. I don’t want to press down the feathers she does have, since it is cold out….
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    Bare backed hen doesn’t grow feathers

    One of my Wyandottes has looked like this for months. I brought her inside to see if she would grow feathers if left alone and it took three weeks for some pin feathers to appear. I put her back out and of course she is being bullied, in spite of my efforts to reintegrate her. It’s cold here...
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    I need to kill my roo and i cant do it

    I hope you'll consider showing him that you are the boss before killing him. My rooster doesn't bother me -- all I had to do when he was a slightly jerky adolescent last summer was lean in and stare him down hard -- but he does bother others. He still acts like he's thinking about bothering me...
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    Lame hen I cannot diagnose

    Many thanks for your warm welcomes and your speedy replies. It was very helpful to hear from you. I think you are right -- she seems to have an injury, not a disease, and needs to rest inside. Today she is finally putting a little weight on her leg. She's still holding it up most of the time...
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    Lame hen I cannot diagnose

    Hello. My 5-month-old Wyandotte is suddenly holding one leg off the ground -- this just started today. Yesterday she was reluctant to leave the coop and today she did not leave it at all. I have her in a cage in the house now. I do not see signs of mites, bumble foot, or injury, and she is...
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