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    Am I a bad chicken mom for this.

    yea I’ve had a couple cases like that, it makes it easier to make the decision when you know what happens when you don’t.
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    Am I a bad chicken mom for this.

    It was done on a hard surface, and she didn’t flap because he was holding her still after the blow while she died. I’ve had to dispatch a couple raccoons too but weirdly they never flopped around for me.
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    Am I a bad chicken mom for this.

    Thank you, I really wasn’t sure where to put it.
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    Am I a bad chicken mom for this.

    I recently needed to cull an old hen because her water belly was really bad, but Ive never been able to cull my babies even though I know they’re suffering, so I asked my dad to do it. I’m glad that he’s willing to drive to my house to help me out with it but I just don’t like the way he did it...
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    Help I think my hen has water belly

    We ended up culling her, I had my dad do it for me I still haven’t been able to it myself (I’ve only ever had one other chicken who needed to be culled) we did try draining her and we double checked to make sure we had the right spot and we have drained a chicken with water belly before so I’m...
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    Help I think my hen has water belly

    I’m not sure but I’ll try that today
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    Help I think my hen has water belly

    I think I have someone who’d be willing to help, I won’t be able to drain her until tomorrow, it’s really late were I am right now and I have someone who will hold her for me tomorrow. I think I’m going to drain her and see how she handles it and if it helps at all before I make a decision on...
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    Help I think my hen has water belly

    I’m not sure, my hens stopped laying all winter and only started a week ago and I don’t think she has because i haven’t seen her in a nesting box or any eggs in her usual spots. I think going to try draining tomorrow but honestly she looks worse than she did when I posted and I’m really worried...
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    Help I think my hen has water belly

    I think my bufforpington has water belly, I noticed two days ago that she was having neon green watery poops and that she was bloated, but I couldn’t feel a stuck egg and her crop was emptying fine. Last night she wouldn’t Roost and she’s really lethargic this morning. She went down hill really...
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    What to do about gaps in coop

    I did think she looked like a Muscovy, but I’ve never had any just runners and mallards.
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    What to do about gaps in coop

    Also is that a duck on your roost! I didn’t know they did that.
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    What to do about gaps in coop

    That’s smart, and we should have extra pieces from building, I’ll definitely try it!
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    What to do about gaps in coop

    I wasn’t sure how to work the situation so the title may not be accurate, but we’re building a chicken coop for the deep litter bedding method, and lined the coop with plastic. To make the plastic fit and the walls smooth we used plywood to cover the studs but it made gaps between the plywood...
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    Some of my chickens were laying on the ground, is this bad

    The internal injuries on my rooster were caused by dogs, the coop door was blown open I had five birds eaten and he had injuries from the attack that he didn’t recover from. I don’t think my yen has these because I checked everybody very thoroughly after my rooster died because I had originally...
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    Some of my chickens were laying on the ground, is this bad

    We’re just getting out of our cold snap so that could be it
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