Princesslayaa
Chirping
Hi there! I’m new here but we’ve owned chickens for about 6 years now. I’ve learned a lot along the way but am super happy to be a part of a chicken family. We’ve owned so many wonderful chickens through the years as well as a few Guinea fowl. We sadly lost our whole flock except 2 girls last year to a raccoon. (May he Rest In Peace). One of the 2 girls, “speedy” had her neck ripped open by the raccoon. We have cameras inside the coop and managed to catch the tail end of him getting in. If we didn’t wake up and see this they all wouldn’t been dead by morning. I quickly went to work cleaning the wound and wrapping it up. For the next week I changed her bandage and kept an eye on it for signs of infection. I fed her scrambled eggs everyday and gave her water through a dropper. She healed wonderfully and is still with us as of today.
One of the other 2 girls (hawk) passed unexpectedly a few days ago which was very hard on my daughter because this was her favorite chicken. We’re still unsure of what happened. It looks as if she fell asleep in the coop and died in her sleep as we found her right below where she sleeps. We found nothing on her. She was fine the day before, eating, drinking, tail up. No sign of blockage. Very strange.
Anyway, our other girl “speedy” ended up with a blockage/sour crop over the past couple days. I performed surgery on her yesterday and she seems to be doing wonderful today. I couldn’t believe the amount of stuff that came out of her crop! We’re keeping an eye on her and are praying she’s going to be ok and able to join the rest of our new flock. We never dealt with sour crop or a blockage over the years but will be keeping a close eye on the rest of the girls and boy from this point on. Very scary.
I’ll attach some photos of some of our girls. We just picked up a few more of what we thought were hens 2 days ago. We somehow ended up with a beautiful rooster. First time rooster owner. No pictures of them yet.
We know one is a polish hen, not sure what the little ones are yet. Speedy is the black hen. Hawk was the orangish/brown hen.
One of the other 2 girls (hawk) passed unexpectedly a few days ago which was very hard on my daughter because this was her favorite chicken. We’re still unsure of what happened. It looks as if she fell asleep in the coop and died in her sleep as we found her right below where she sleeps. We found nothing on her. She was fine the day before, eating, drinking, tail up. No sign of blockage. Very strange.
Anyway, our other girl “speedy” ended up with a blockage/sour crop over the past couple days. I performed surgery on her yesterday and she seems to be doing wonderful today. I couldn’t believe the amount of stuff that came out of her crop! We’re keeping an eye on her and are praying she’s going to be ok and able to join the rest of our new flock. We never dealt with sour crop or a blockage over the years but will be keeping a close eye on the rest of the girls and boy from this point on. Very scary.
I’ll attach some photos of some of our girls. We just picked up a few more of what we thought were hens 2 days ago. We somehow ended up with a beautiful rooster. First time rooster owner. No pictures of them yet.
We know one is a polish hen, not sure what the little ones are yet. Speedy is the black hen. Hawk was the orangish/brown hen.
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Sorry for your losses
