injured hen

Sunday afternoon tragedy struck. 2 dogs from a half a mile down the road (owners have chickens too) massacred my flock. My babies free range from 12 to 6 daily. We heard something and my husband ran outside and saw the dogs. He grabbed a gun and while chasing to get a shot he fell. He broke a...

So, I just butchered my first quail. I was planning on it eventually, but tonight it became necessary. As my newest hatch was getting older, I moved the hens into a pen with a solo older rooster... Discovered this evening when I got home that the rooster (named Duck) had quite savagely...

There was a fox attack happened at around 2:30pm today. One of my 4-months-old hen got injured pretty badly. Lost lots of feather and seems the fox teared her stomach skin. Here attached a picture. I cut her feather around the wound and pour 10% Povidone-Iodine to clean it. It is a big open...

Hello! I have a 7mo hen. She's the sweetest thing in the world, but she has abnormally short legs, which makes it difficult for her to walk. Recently, a really heavy rooster mounted her, and since then she's had a really bad limp. I can't bring myself to kill her, but I don't want her to be in...

Plz help I have no idea what’s specifically wrong with this hen, I know my whole flock got MG recently and I’m taking some of them to the vet tomorrow for a checkup to get antibiotics but I came home tonight and this one hen won’t stop crying like this.

I seen a snake near the coop. I went to go get a shovel to “take care” of it, but by time I returned it was gone. It looked like it was a rat snake but I’m not certain. When closing up the coop for the night, I noticed one of my hens had a snake bite on her wing. You could see the two fang...

One of my chantecler hens has a sore on her back. It looks like something ripped part of the skin off. I'm not sure how long it's been like that, but I think it's been about a day or less. I put her in an XL dog crate and put a bunch of Neosporin and chicken bactine on her wound. I don't have...

Hi guys me again :hit Hate to say it but my hens had gotten attacked yesterday!!!! Since the weather is getting warmer I let them out of the coop(I have a cage outside to keep them in during winter) to eat bugs and walk around. I let them out many days before this attack so I know the predator...

Hi friends! I have four beautiful hens, and tonight when I was putting them to bed, I noticed one was injured. It was one of my other birds picking on her, not a wild animal. She has a wound on her comb which is bleeding a lot all over the place. I have had this issue in the past and didn’t...

Hello all! I’m posting for a friend. One of her three hens recently learned how to get into the garden which had been closed off to her a few weeks back. Her mother had put several rat traps in the garden, one of which she had stepped onto. The hen now has a definite broken toe and I was...

my flock was chased around by a hawk today and one got injured. she has a superficial wound on her back. what kind of treatment should be done. and yes she is isolated:hit

Hello everyone! I am extremely new to this so I need all the help I can get. My boyfriend and I recently moved to a farm owned by my boyfriends parents. They have a coop with chickens and ducks. We have been slowly learning how to take care of them (a man who took care of the land was in charge...

Hello! This is my first post... and I’m a first time chicken owner. This may be long and I apologize. Please no judgements, I’m just looking to see if anyone has any advice or has been through something similar. About 2 weeks ago, I checked on our ladies before going to bed, and noticed one of...

Hello! A couple of days ago I had a few hens attacked and killed by a hawk. A couple of the ladies survived. One of them seems to be having problems walking now though. She pulled past the 24 hour mark but went missing. I had assumed she was taken by a predator since she would have been an easy...

I just realized my 7mo old Ameracauna hen is actually a rooster, which was a surprise. Now he is hurting one of my hens. I included 2 photos. What should I do? Right now, I left him in the run and the girls are locked in the coop. I sprayed her injury with vetyricin and applied some...

My hen was attacked by a hawk a couple weeks ago. At first we didn’t notice anything wrong with her because she was avoiding us, but then it clearly became visible that she was injured and injured BAD! I started giving her penicillin. It’s been 2 days. I also have kept her in my basement to...

My flock consists of a white silkie roo, a barred rock hen, a black star hen, and a bearded d'uccle hen (mille fleur). Recently, I have had issues with my silkie picking on my hens, mostly my barred rock and my bearded d'uccle. I believe he has even drew blood on the barred rock. They are all a...

Two Questions from a chicken newbie: - I’m in Ohio, I have six 6 week old chicks inside and want them to go outside when they can but obviously it’s getting cold at night some nights right now here... lower than 20 is normal for this time of year... when can they safely go in with the main...

Hey there, One of my hens was attacked by a fox she only had minor wounds and was in shock. I cleaned her wounds and put neosporin on them. I left her with the rest of the flock for the first night and day but then noticed she seemed tired and was closing her eyes standing up so I separated her...

I've been really worried about what to do here and I think this is the right place to post this? I just joined today for this reason and need some insight or thoughts on what other people may think this is... I live in Maine and we bough about 15 chickens a year ago now and one of the Jersey...