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There a gaping hole in her and you can see bone. The whole hole os bigger than her head. She won’t drink nor eat. She looks and smells awful I don’t know how she’s still alive. and maggots jsut keep coming out of her despite cleaning her. I feel awful.

Update: she has a huge hole through her. The maggots ate through her and I can see bone. How can I put her down 😭I can’t see her like this anymore

So our chicken got attacked by a raccoon yesterday morning and she has a puncture wound under her wing. Unfortunately now she has fly strike. My dad cleaned her twice earlier today with vinegar and he said lots came out. We now got povidine-iodine 10% Do I dilute this or jsut squirt it in...

Update: Unfortunately she has flystrike. My parents cleaned her up twice today while I was gone with vinegar and they said lots of worms came out. We got Povidone-iodine now so we can clean her with it. The bottle says 10% so do I need to I dilute it? Do I jsut squirt some in there or how to I...

Which ones the best do you think?

yes sorry I left that part out. You can’t tell from the picture but if you move the feathers there’s a very small puncture ( blue stuff is the blu-kote spray I used)

Wouldn’t the bath stress her out more. Also the puncture is on her wing. Could it get infected that fast from this morning? What do you recommend me cleaning it with? Rubbing alcohol?

We had an attack on Sunday that killed one of our chickens very brutally. We suspect it was a raccoon since we’ve seen them around here. This morning it came again. Thankfully my dad was able to run out there in time. He said the animal ran with the chick then dropped it as it went crawled...

Update: Another one just died, I don’t think it was the one with pasty butt. So now I’m down to 3 chicks 😢

Got them at Rural king, they did not have chick starte so they told us to get the meat bird crumble because that’s the only feed they had in crumble for and it’s what they have been giving them. I’m not sure of the exact temp but they have a heating pad and heating lamp.

I got 8 chicks about 1 week ago and they were all doing fine except for one suddenly died a couple days ago. I did notice that it limped but only for about an hour before it walked normal again, other than that it was eating/drinking jsut fine. It ended up dying the next morning. Ever since 3 of...

Most likely a male. Males make raspy sound quack while females are loud. Sometimes It can take a little longer for a drake feather to grow. If your unsure you can post a video clip of its quack! 🙂

Mine start yelling and quacking like crazy when they run out of food. Is that normal? Also is 2 months old enough to stop free feeding?

they all look like pullers to me aswell. At 12 weeks roos would have way more comb development

You can post a video clip of their quack to help determine weather it’s a hen or drake :)