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I do have some iodine on hand. Thanks for the suggestion. Next time I'm over at the specialty store I'll pick up some blue kote. I wish now that I had purchased some before. I'm still building up my chicken pharmacy on a tight budget and with the nearest store that has a decent selection being...

Well, speckled baby is looking pretty good today. No pecking from the little sister (I've been monitoring them all day) and the wound is fully scabbed up. She lost the little flap of skin that was loose, but it's only a spot about the size of a dime. Should I risk disturbing the scab to try to...

I think the main issue I'm having is that most of my flock is currently a bunch of half-feral gamefowl hens who were given to me... even careful integration sometimes goes very wrong very fast. That's why I want to split to two separate flocks, so the laying breeds and a few of the gentler...

I'll see what I can do about getting separate pens. The main reason I'm less concerned about picking in this particular case is both because it was the more dominant of the two that was injured and because the uninjured one is a runt that's barely bigger than a bantam of her age. Other than her...

A few days ago, I tried to integrate two young (approx. 4 months old) speckled sussex pullets into my main flock. Everything was fine for the first couple of days aside from a few minor dominance pecks... until today. I went out to feed this afternoon and found one of the pullets with a bloody...