can Annie go back in the coop tonight? need answer fast please?

[jeannieo]

o.k. I put her out in the coop. it is 40 right now in the coop so it should be all right. I turned off the bright 150 watt light I have and left the 250 watt red one on. Even so, one of my mean RIR's (Rosemary Clooney) didn't peck but stood over her like intimidating her. Annie then jumped into a nest box and was settling in. The only thing I am a little concerned about was her beak was open, not wide, and she appeared to be panting. is that because I took her from her cozy single occupancy crate with clean hay and chicken delicacies in the semi warm bathroom to a 40 coop with all her peeps she hasn't seen in two days?

 

[jeannieo]

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she was standing strange with her butt near the ground. I picked her up and checked and she had dried poop all over her butt and her abdomen/tummy area seemed very swollen to me. I brought her in and washed her butt and dried it with the hair drier but she was still damp so I decided to keep her in for the night. The next day, her butt was fluffy again and the swelling had gone down. Another BYC member suggested that maybe she was swollen from the dried poop irritating her. I called a vet and they told me to bring in a composite poop to see if she and everyone else has worms. That was yesterday so I am hoping to hear tomorrow. I sure hope they don't have worms, they are laying the best they have since I got them over a year ago. My babies that I got online last spring are popping out eggs like crazy and today I got TEN Eggs! I've NEVER gotten ten before. I will just frost me if I have to worm and discard eggs for two weeks!

 

[AmyBella]

Maybe she was egg-bound? Did she lay while she was in with you?

 

[jeannieo]

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no, she didn't lay but I think she might not be laying any more anyway, but I'm not sure. She just doesn't act eggbound, she was eating and not acting lethargic at all. I looked at her this morning and she is still dragging her butt sort of but acting o.k. I'm going to take her to the vet but of course today is Saturday so it will have to wait. I hope she's o.k. thanks for your concern!

 

[Ms~Silkie~Girl]

put her back in the coop when it gets dark out, then you shouldn't have any problems with the other chickens, she should be fine.

 

[biddyboo]

Siimilar question here. Jemima, one of our two barred rock hens, was severely pecked--bloody and raw--on her shoulders and back and feathers pulled. We've isolated her in a large dog crate next to the indoor barn pen where the other hens mostly stay on these cold days. I have no idea how long it will take before she heals enough for the hens not to peck her raw again. When I do return her, you suggest doing it at lights out time at night? She needs relief from the pecking which has gone on, though not so severely, since she joined us in the summer. Blu Kote? Will this stop the hens' attraction to her unfeathered areas? All suggestions are appreciated. ~G

 

[ozark hen]

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I would get a chicken saddle for her first then when she is healed and you want to rejoin her to the flock....keep her where she is seen/heard for awhile and then reintroduce her at night. I would also put a few hens in with her(a few days before putting her back into flock) who are more laid back and not aggressive towards her before reintroducing. That way you will be adding a few hens into the group. Am I making sense?

 

[jeannieo]

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My experience with Bu Kote was not good. I thought it would stop the pecking of my girls tail. I put on the Blu Kote, put her back in and checked a half hour later and the spot was so mutilated that bone was showing. I cleaned it, packed it with Neosporin (no pain stuff in it, just the original) and kept her in the house for a few days and it healed nicely. introduced her gradually, in a crate in the coop for a few days and I thought all was well and she died.

her name was Audrey Hepburn and I loved her.

 

[ozark hen]

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My experience with Bu Kote was not good. I thought it would stop the pecking of my girls tail. I put on the Blu Kote, put her back in and checked a half hour later and the spot was so mutilated that bone was showing. I cleaned it, packed it with Neosporin (no pain stuff in it, just the original) and kept her in the house for a few days and it healed nicely. introduced her gradually, in a crate in the coop for a few days and I thought all was well and she died.

her name was Audrey Hepburn and I loved her.

 

[jeannieo]

It turns out I was able to take Annie and Kate Smith to the vet this afternoon. Kate had stopped eating so I didn't hold out much hope for her and she died on the way there.

The vet examined Annie and because of her swollen tummy which was not egg bound BTW, it was fluid and LOTS of it. She felt that it was a cancer. I decided that the kindest thing was to have her euthanized.

Two in one day, lots of sadness here today.