injured hen

  1. NinjaGamer2022

    Got caught hen. Her side is cut and flesh or something is exposed. Help is urgently needed.

    My 2 year old pet hen, Jewel, just got caught by a dog. Her side is badly cut and is bleeding. I have flour, honey, and Vetericyn. Should I coat her wound with Vetercyn and flour? Anyone is can help is greatly needed and appreciated.
  2. crunchygranola

    Injured hen who is barely able to walk? **HELP!!**

    I have a hen that was nearly fully recovered from heat stroke last week who is now limping on her right foot. She’s staying in her coop and refuses to come out. It’s 99 fahrenheit today and I really don’t want her in there today… I’ll get pictures of her foot.
  3. C

    Raccoon Attack Injured Hen

    I have a Hen who is three years old and she was recently attacked by a raccoon. Unfortunately I didn’t know until the blood had already dried on her face. I cleaned up her face with some hydrogen peroxide the best that I could and she has been drinking soooo much water but seems to be struggling...
  4. crunchygranola

    Is my hen sick or injured?

    I have a hen that is exhibiting some odd behavior. She used to be one of my most active and busy hens, but now, all she does is lay around. When she gets up, she kind of stumbles a bit and her wings go out— when she walks, she’s a little slow and almost waddles kind of wide-legged. Any ideas...
  5. Nicci0110

    Dog Attack

    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...
  6. Wandering_r0gue

    Butchering: first time complete ****GRAPHIC****

    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...
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  7. L

    Fox attack during daytime, badly injured young hen

    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...
  8. Wacky Workshop

    Heavy Chicken with Short Legs has Really Bad Limp

    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...
  9. Hennyhenhen

    Hen is crying like a baby.

    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.
  10. F

    Chicken with snake bite

    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...
  11. T

    Help! Injured hen!

    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...
  12. H

    Animal Attack WHAT DO I DO😱😱

    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...
  13. Greystone farm

    Injured hen-help!!

    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...
  14. BrahmaMom1797

    Hen with broken toe. Need splint advice.

    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...
  15. M

    chicken injured by hawk

    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
  16. Helpmehelpmychickens

    Please help I found my hen bloodied in the coop, alive but not moving!

    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...
  17. U

    Advice on hen walking on hocks and curled toes

    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...
  18. B

    Hawk attack injury

    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...
  19. brigburke

    One of my hens is a mean rooster!

    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...
  20. Melendez mini Farm

    Help with my injured hen

    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...
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