I have a hen that is exhibiting some odd behavior. She used to be one of my most active and busy hens, but now, all she does is lay around. When she gets up, she kind of stumbles a bit and her wings go out— when she walks, she’s a little slow and almost waddles kind of wide-legged. Any ideas...
Hello. 2 nights ago a group of raccoons were smart enough to rip off the metal hatches out of the wood to my coop which resulted in 5 of my 7 hens killed. There are 2 survivors one is perfectly fine but the other, (my favorite) has a large chunk bitten out of her breast. It is very hard to find...
So one of our free roaming chicks almost got caught by a fox. Luckily we were there to scare it off. But now our girl has a wound. What do we do? Does she need to be separated from the rest? Does she need ointment or something.
this is our first time raising chickens and the first injury...