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    Hen acting broody, breast feathers mostly gone, red streaks on skin, smells bad

    Good news, I let her out around noon and she didn't even go for the nest boxes. As I said they're integrated with the roosting coop, so if I can catch her tonight I'll put her in the breaker night cage. We're going out of town unexpectedly for a week after so if she remains broody, I guess we...
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    Hen acting broody, breast feathers mostly gone, red streaks on skin, smells bad

    It is but the ground is not even, so parts of the jail are on the ground. I have a bunny hutch, should I be using that instead?
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    Hen acting broody, breast feathers mostly gone, red streaks on skin, smells bad

    She's an Isa Brown from the pound that I got a year ago. She was an almost daily layer until this broody business came up, so I'm estimating her age at about 2. Today I walk into the shed to get her, she's being broody right there in the battery cage, stuck her claws into the wire to not come...
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    Hen acting broody, breast feathers mostly gone, red streaks on skin, smells bad

    Hey Kathy, the chicken jail cage I had was pretty big to move, so what I ended up doing was transferring her back to a standard battery cage with a wire bottom, then putting her in a locked shed. This is the fourth or fifth night since she's started going broody, and she is relentless. Go out...
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    Hen acting broody, breast feathers mostly gone, red streaks on skin, smells bad

    It exactly does! The crate is in the yard where the flock hangs out but we can move her to a smaller chicken jail for the night(s). BTW, she's an Isa Brown. Never thought she'd be the first one to go broody or so difficult to break.
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    Hen acting broody, breast feathers mostly gone, red streaks on skin, smells bad

    I have implemented the chicken jail. The roosting coop is tied directly to the nesting boxes, which she has been sleeping in. Should I leave her out there tonight?
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    Hen acting broody, breast feathers mostly gone, red streaks on skin, smells bad

    I returned her to the flock yesterday. She's dust bathing, eating, drinking, running around. When I'm not looking she returns to the nest boxes. I've lifted her out of there eight times now in 20 hours. The last time I just put her in a non-preferred nestbox as egg production from the flock has...
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    Hen acting broody, breast feathers mostly gone, red streaks on skin, smells bad

    Her vent was very dirty but there wasn't evidence of any bugs around it but inflamed skin underneath. I trimmed some of the feathers back there to admin the vetricyn. We can do the fecal float Monday if symptoms persist. I did mix up another 100 mg of erythro in a syringe feeder, she probably...
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    Hen acting broody, breast feathers mostly gone, red streaks on skin, smells bad

    I have a hen, 2 to 2.5 years old. Three days ago she started acting broody but no egg came out. Her tail was up. When I took her out of the box, we found that she was missing most of her breast feathers and the skin had red streaks in it. The area smelled like infection that permeated our...
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