Losing hens. Yellow coming out of behind. Please help. Photos attached

[besorto]

Waaaaay too many chickens, not enough space. Surprised the cannibalism didn’t start sooner...

 

[azygous]

I have all of those predators plus bobcats and mountain lions and bears. The bears are the worst of the wildlife. I have hot wire around my runs and coops to keep the bears from wrecking the place, and most of the other predators aren't much of a problem except at night. The hot wire does its work at night and when I'm gone to town for supplies. You might look into that. It delivers an unpleasant shock but won't kill the chickens or predators.

In all of the years I've been keeping chickens, it's the dogs running wild that have been the worst predators. In thirteen years, I've lost two hens to bobcats, one to a hawk, one hen escaped a hawk but lost all the feathers on her back from one, and dogs have killed one chicken and have attacked the flock at other times with no casualties except for driving off my two roosters overnight. They almost died from exposure as it was 13F that night. I live on 36 acres and my neighbors are a long way off, but dogs running loose can cover a lot of ground. As I said, it's mostly a matter of training the neighbors to not want their dogs dead.

 

[karebare6379]

I have one acre that backs to a huge field owned by the electric company. It'll never be developed. The one neighbor is right on the other side of my driveway that has the dog and the other is an acre away, no pets. I'm planning on making the back 1/8 acre into the flock area that backs the field. I have to fence the top because of the predators like hawks and owls but it'll be large enough.
I still don't understand the discharge from the vent. It's seems to be only the leghorns that are getting it. I'm getting no white eggs from them. Could they have something wrong with them? They are from the same breeder same brood.

 

[azygous]

If you know when these hens with the discharge laid their last eggs, and if the eggs were of poor shell quality, they could be egg bound. The treatment is a calcium tablet once a day until the crisis has passed. But if it's been a very long time since they laid an egg, say weeks or months, then the discharge may mean a chronic reproductive infection. Caught early right after an egg-binding episode, antibiotic treatment can cure the infection resulting from a collapsed egg inside. But after the infection has been going on for months, an antibiotic rarely helps, and the hen will eventually die from it. This is the sort of calcium I'm talking about.

 

[karebare6379]

I'm going to separate the hens tomorrow and relocate some to the old coop. I haven't had any soft or brittle shelled eggs at all. But I haven't gotten any white eggs either. I have Leghorns, Delaware, ISO brown , golden comet and Asian. If it's correct, only the leghorn make white eggs