Help! Injured hen!

[lauren0325]

Okay so one of my hens is being attacked by all of the others. I know this has been asked before but I can't get far enough to try the solutions. I have read that they will not stop until she is completely healed. Well, I have made up a dog crate as a temporary home for her to keep her out of the coop. When I try to separate her she freaks out. I let her do this for about twenty minutes then I put the second weakest hen of the flock in with her to try and calm her down. She did calm down but then the other hen got right back at attacking her. I'm not sure how to address the problem now. Please help!

 

[riversanctuary]

I so know how you feel. I have the same problem! How are you handling it and how is your chicken? This will be the first night she is in a coop alone I can't risk putting her with the other 4 because they all gang up on her. She got pecked pretty bad!

 

[lauren0325]

I so know how you feel. I have the same problem! How are you handling it and how is your chicken? This will be the first night she is in a coop alone I can't risk putting her with the other 4 because they all gang up on her. She got pecked pretty bad!

I let her out of the coop with the others as normal. At night they all go back up to their roosts on their own. The only way I've been able to get her was to wait until she joins the others in the coop ten go in and get her out. I just put her in her separate cage and she eventually calms down. I've treated her with blue kote. This is the third day and tonight she did not panic when I put her in separate so we are making progress! But as soon as she gets around the other hens they jump on her so I'm trying to find a new way to catch her.

 

[riversanctuary]

Hang in there I am hoping that eventually I can move her back in, but I will have to wait for my bigger coop which needs a new roof. It's actually a garden shed, but I decided before this happened to the girls that I wanted to make the garden shed into a chicken coop. They have a small roost box now and I know I can't risk letting Lacy back in. Hopefully when the shed is done the larger space for roosting might help.
One way I catch Lacy is to offer her the dried worms she loves those as she eats them I put a towel over her wings which is pretty simple if I can distract her. She came into the garage tonight willingly and I put her in the rabbit hutch for the night. She seemed to like that a lot better.