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Ok, that’s a bit reassuring at least. Are some hens more prone to deserting than others? Is she more likely to do it again in the future?

Our experienced broody hen deserted the nest overnight last night, while the chicks were starting to hatch. One hatched but died, and all the others died in the egg, presumably from cold. She’s hatched a full clutch of eggs in the past and reared the chicks successfully. She’s been sitting for...

We’ve also had a few leg injuries. One fractured toe caused by a hen getting in amongst our feet and getting stepped on at scratch time, and one sprained knee caused by our rooster being a bit, well, you know... ^^ We’ve also got an ongoing problem with the hens from one particular batch all...

It’s not impossible that they’re forging something toxic as only this batch have learned to hop over the fence. They could have found something in the larger field the others don’t have access to. Could that cause masses/tumours though? It’s interesting you mention sour crop as a symptom as one...

We have a mixed flock of around 40 birds free-ranging in a tree belt along with 1 rooster and 2 geese. They’re various ages from 2-yrs old to some POLs we raised ourselves. The 2-yr olds are the starter flock of 12 Isa Browns and black tails that we got before chicken math set in. Over the last...

I should mention, we have the occasional hen with a runny bottom, but nothing that’s caused us concern, and I’ve not seen anything like that in these girls anyway. We now only have 5 of the original 12 remaining and 6 of those 7 losses have been to illness. They all packed up laying months ago...

We have a mixed flock of around 40 birds free-ranging in a tree belt along with 1 rooster and 2 geese. They’re various ages from 2-yrs old to some POLs were raised ourselves. The 2-yr olds are the starter flock of 12 Isa Browns and black tails that we got before chicken math set in. Over the...

Great, thanks for the advice. It's her first season, so I don't plan to hatch any eggs this year. I'll separate them for a bit and see how she does.

I have a young pair about a year old. My goose has been laying an egg a day since February and in the last few days bald patches and bruises have appeared all down one side of her neck. As far as I can tell, it's from aggressive mating. Certainly from the position on her neck it looks like the...