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I am very happy to have found you! We have had 9 white longhorn hens for nearly two years with no issues. They are great egg layers and they have very spacious quarters. They are free range chickens throughout the day. All of the sudden without reason, two of the hens while out free ranging began to fight. One was injured and will recover but is being rejected by the rest of her flock. These girls are sister hens, born and raised together. Never any fighting? We cleaned her up the best we could. We need advice.
 
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Sorry about your injured hen. I would give the injured one a good once over for other health issues. Many times the flock can pick up things that we don't see easily and being their job to protect the rest of the flock will try to run off a sick member of the group.

Have you wormed your birds lately? Could she be internally laying? Have water belly? Something else going on?

Health issues are not always the case, but it can be. Or if she was gone for a while from the flock while healing, mixing them back into the flock can be challenging. So if she was away from the flock for a long period of time, reintroduce her slowly from a cage or enclosure within the coop and run. Everybody sees, nobody touches. Leave her this way for 3 weeks or so and then you can mix her back in. The aggression should be less. And put out more food and water stations too so they don't starve her out.

Good luck with your flock and if you have any further questions feel free to ask. Welcome to our flock!
 
Thank you for your advice. This just happened two days ago and we did isolate her to the pen with door shut and others free ranging. When we brought them altogether the next day, same attacking began as we watched carefully and pulled them apart again. As they all go into roost tonight we will try the cage idea so she is with them and they see her but cannot harm her. Thanks again, open to any ideas.

Have never wormed birds.
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We will research this. Glad we have your support on this site.
 
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Try to worm them every few months. Wouldn't want your chickens to have worms.
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Hello :frow and Welcome To BYC! Sorry about your hen, hope she is OK.
 

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