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Something dug into my coop wednesday night and managed to kill one of my white hens, and I'm thinking it also hurt my production red. :( when I got out to the coop Thursday morning, my one poor girl was half drug out of the fence that was dug under and the rest of my girls were piled on top of eachother in the house. I checked all of them and everyone seemed ok at first. I removed my poor Hazel and set about fixing the fence and placing cinder blocks around the pen, as I was doing this all of the girls but my red came out. I went in and she was laying on her side. I bent to pick her up and she jumped up and was alert and went out the door to the run but was a little wobbly and she was holding her wing funky. I figured that if she was good enough to jump up like she did and go out that she was ok. She didn't have any blood on her or anything. So I finished up and went on to work. Got home and went straight to check on them and found the other hens beating the red up! I immediately took her out and have her in a quarantine pen. She seemed to be in complete shock, she literally didn't move, even an inch, for 24 hrs, she did eat and drink just did not move, she literally had a pile of poo, a few inches thick directly under her, looked normal not runny. Friday she was walking around the pen a little and is holding her wing a little better too, still eating and drinking, and alert. Today, she is back to not moving hardly at all. Still alert and eating and drinking but back to wobbling if she's standing and most of the day she has been bedded down. Also, her poo has taken a turn, it's still normal consistency, but the smell! It smells like road kill! Is she just in shock from the two traumatic events or is she really hurt and what do I do? :(
 
Poor sweet baby. I think you need to examine her closely... look her over for injuries. Is her breathing normal? Not sure what to make of the stinky poo. Is she still laying? I have heard amazing recovery stories, but it sounds like she will require some extra care. I think it may be hard for people here to help you until you assess her for injury. Anyone else?
 
Her breathing is normal, and other than her holding her wing a little lower than normal, and missing some of her head feathers from the other girls being brats, she seems fine. And she doesn't shriek or anything when I put a little pressure on the wing or move it just glares at me and pulls it away. Yes, I buried the fencing deeper and placed cinder blocks all around the perimeter of the pen. And today I added a door to the actual house so when they go in to roost at night, I can shut them in, before I had it almost like a doggy door, they could come and go as they pleased.
 

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