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    What is this animal, is it dangerous?

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    What is this animal, is it dangerous?

    This animal sneaked into my chickens coop. I am wondering if it is dangerous? I tried to identify it, is it mink? I live in central new jersey. This is the first time I saw it. I have since fortified my coop, so far i am luck enough to avoid any casualties. I feel it is a predator. Does anyone...
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    Flora, my heart is broken

    Thank you. Yes, she was very special. She liked to get into the house staying either in her own spot whrre i put some blanket just for her, or sleep in my arms. She enjoyed me holding her. She spent a lot of time with me indoors and often she perched on top of a cabinet at nights. She even...
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    Flora, my heart is broken

    Thanks. Losing a hen is always a devastating thing. Flora to me was more like a pet, a companion, a little friend. She was so special.
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    Flora, my heart is broken

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    Pain receptors in chickens

    This time yesterday she was still alive and now she is laying underground and I am here mourning her. Pain felt and sustained. She was my best companion, my sweetest girl.
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    Flora, my heart is broken

    Thank you
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    Flora, my heart is broken

    She suffered too much. And I loved her dearly she was a very special girl. Thank you for your kind words. I am still mourning her, and will be for a long time. so sad
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    Flora, my heart is broken

    She was a happy and loved. Thank you.
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    Flora, my heart is broken

    Thank you. Still grieving, she was my sweetheart.
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    Flora, my heart is broken

    Indeed I was imagining again and again her pain and suffering in that fatal moment, felt her extreme pain almost kill me. She was so dear to my heart!!! She would be 4 years old short of one month. A beautiful life was vut short by such an unfathomable event. Thank you so much for posting this...
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    Flora, my heart is broken

    She was precious. Thank you!
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    Flora, my heart is broken

    Thank you. Still devastated, will remember her for a long,long time
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    Flora, my heart is broken

    It is w tearing eyes and a heavy heart I wrote this. My heart is broken today when found my dearest sweet hen Flora was killed by a hawk. It is being sunny and no much wind so I let her and the flock out of coop for a dust bath steps away from my house under a tree. They were doing it happily so...
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    Hen Walking Backwards with Head Down

    Hi, I'm happy to report that after I gave her vitamin B, 1/4 tablet melted in water, and some vitamins power also melt in water (i bought from tractor supply sometime ago). I also feed her half boiled egg for two days in a row just to give her additional protein. My girl is doing better now. She...
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    Hen Walking Backwards with Head Down

    Please do and thanks! I will try to give her vitamin E and B and add protein to her diet starting tomorrow. I will also keep you posted.
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    Hen Walking Backwards with Head Down

    Hey, i found this thread after searching for answer to my hen's strange behavior. My hen does exactly the same thing! Walking head down backwards. Also, she is molting currently, i live in nj and it is freezing cold. I'd like to know whether vitamin E helped.
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    Omnivores! Remember that!

    You did read her minds! 😀
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    Sick Hen

    Update - gave her an warm soapy bath this morning, washed off less than an handful maggots. She showed clear sign of improvements. Started eating a little by herself. I still tube feed her some painkiller mixed with chicken feed and vitamins. Drainage definitely stopped, area is dry and...
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    Sick Hen

    An chilly update - when I examen my sick hen a few hours ago I was shocked. The dark red dripping from her vent area was not from vent but instead was from an injury right above her vent, and the laceration area was infested with maggots! It was hidden so well I didn't see it for 2 days and...
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