About two/three days ago my neighbor's dog came racing to our house and caught one of my chickens. Neighbor came over and dragged him off and I found the injured chicken an hour later (I'd thought she had crawled into the bushes and died until then, I was looking for a body to bury). She was...
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I wanted to share some information that hopefully another will find helpful if faced with a similar situation.
I had one of my pullets (6 mos old) attacked by a friends dog 3 weeks ago. It was an entirely avoidable situation and I learned my lesson the hard way :(
She suffered most of...
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One of my Red Sexlinks, Rick, was attacked yesterday when our dog was mistakenly let out at the same time as the birds. I believe she’s recovering ok with a single puncture wound on her back. I have a strong feeling she was in the early stages of molt and loss a significant number of...
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Two days ago, a dog broke into our run and killed one of our hens and their bunny friend. Another hen appeared fine at first, but then yesterday, she was laying in the shade panting. I gave her a very thorough look over, and do not see any wounds. I assumed it might be stress...
I have 2 white pekins I believe one male and one female. Saturday morning my in laws came over for a visit and brought their dogs (I have 4 of my own none of which bother my ducks). When I woke up they were here first thing I do in the morning is go and care for them. Well my nephews were...
Hello everyone - being lurking here for a few months. This spring we accepted 6 rehomed hens from a friend - 3 leghorns, 2 easter eggers, and 1 brahams. Laying 4~6 eggs daily pretty consistently. They are housed in a solid coop attached to an outdoor run protected by electric fence.
Yesterday...
Hello everyone. My small dog stuck her head through the quail cage while I wasn’t around and bit one of my cortunix quail. She was bleeding a lot and had a bone near her wing which could be the humerus or maybe a rib sticking out. I put neonsporin on her and wrapped her wing going over the...
One of my chickens was recently attacked by a dog, dog got her head through her fence, which injured the area around her eye. We separated her from the other six but when I came out the next day she was in the main roost and the area around her eye was swollen up so I brought her inside to see...