- Mar 24, 2008
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I have been caring for chickens for 4 years, but this one takes the cake. I had a hen that I hatched over 3 years ago and one morning my son told me she wasn't looking well. I told him to put her in the crate and I'll look at her when I get back from an errand. I noticed that her bedding was wet and there was an odor. I took her in to bathe her and discovered that there was a large opening the size of a a 1/2 dollar below her vent and it was infected with magets. We had to cull her. What could have caused this? Could she have been egg bound? I had noticed that her tail had been down for several months versus being upright like other hens.
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