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    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    ah fair well it's always nice to find a good community for that stuff though people to talk to and get tips from
  2. M

    dae make chicken noises back at them???

    I've spent some time practicing mimicking their noises and every once in a while I'll sit down in their enclosure and purr and squawk at them and they usually get real chatty
  3. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    oh im sure you could make some good money with that our family had horses as a kid when we lived in the mountains but i was very young and ive always wished i could work with horses again
  4. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    yea id imagine lol our setup is a little less difficult where i work i think because its a treatment center for addiction there arent very many guidelines around those in every state and setting one up (for better or worse) can be pretty easy
  5. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    oh thats so cool!!! lots of the rural parts of my city aint much for the fancy agricultural schooling lots of folks just grew up to inherit small produce/small animal farms kinda thing course there are of course other parts of the state that are a lot more serious about it all tho nmsu from what...
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    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    lol unfortunately they're not my chickens but the company chickens! its at a youth treatment center and there is some evidence to suggest that there are significant benefits to having animals at treatment centers for therapeutic purposes and as a tool to help patients learn how to care for...
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    should i be worried?

    on an unrelated note the hen in question started a fight with one of the roosters yesterday and got the absolute snot pecked out of her been treating her with wound heal in quarantine lol
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    should i be worried?

    I was holding one of my hens. She was resting in the palm of my hand (one of the smaller breeds) and I think? I just pressed against her crop weird bc she made the gagging motion and then puked up a clear fluid and I think it might have just been that she drank too much water? but apparently it...
  9. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    i usually only use it if there is bird doodoo caked on there real bad lol my chickens are at my work so I only get to interact with them abt 40 hours a week and sometimes my other coworkers straight up forget to pick up eggs.
  10. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    i didnt see this comment but ironically i did kinda do this and it worked i just kicked her out of the coop every day whether she had eggs or not ignoring the pecking and now she hasnt done it in quite some time lol
  11. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    oh hey lol thats also the one i use
  12. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    luckily she don't disturb the other hens much on the contrary they tend to lay their eggs in her coop to have her guard them. I have no plans of rehoming her though. She's been through a lot. A large number of our previous hens from her litter passed due to respiratory issues before we could fix...
  13. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    i use a bit of egg cleanser in a tub full of warm water mostly
  14. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    it kinda feels like shes always been broody though??? I've known this hen for a while and she definitely has her seasons when she's moodier but she's downright ornery always.
  15. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    i usually just cover my hands with my sleeves but I don't really need too even her pecking at her hardest she ain't never hurt me so much as I tend to flinch anyway lol. I fear if I put her in broody jail she might just resent me more though I've been caring for her for well over a year now and...
  16. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    ill try that her pecking don't hurt none really but shes pretty vocal about not wanting her eggs stolen. I definitely worry she doesn't eat/drink enough so it might be worth it to toss her out of the box once per day at least.
  17. M

    tips for helping a chicken who is always pissed off???

    she's very broody and the designated egg watcher tm and i steal her eggs every morning and she nips at me and fluffs up real big. These aren't just warning pecks either!!! she goes in for the kill. I want to try and find a way to get on better terms with her. We tried letting her hatch her own...
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    poopy vent

    Yeah, I've seen that before does that work pretty well??? Like do the chickens typically respond to that pretty well??? I feel like she might pitch more of a fit if I pick her up and put her in a tub full of water lol but I obviously haven't tried it before. I already feel bad because the poor...
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    poopy vent

    is there any way for me to convince my poor hens that I'm not in fact trying to hurt or harass them when I go to help clean the poop stuck to the feathers on their vent??? I haven't had to do it often but it's been more than twice now with one specific hen and she is always so distressed about it
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