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I have a chicken problem that is needing some kind of remedy.  Last night our ds forgot to lock the chickens up and I think some coons came and had a chicken feast. They killed one and chewed up another one---on the back end. It is all raw and nasty looking. I penned it up alone so the others wouldn't peck it, and I poured hydrogen peroxide on it. Should I do anything else? It seems fine otherwise; even laid an egg today. 
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I think I would just watch for now.. is there something extra you could give in the feed to help?
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I don't know. I was thinking just putting on a topical antibiotic or something like that.
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I have 3 hens currently in the "poultry hospital", a smaller chicken tractor, where the hens are not with the other 2 flocks, each with roosters.
All three were my early molters and lighter in feather color so their moult was obvious. Rough roosters and picky hens resulted in a real chicken mess.
With a quiet space and food and water all three survived.
They did not get any extra treatment but I did make sure when I had extra treats (meaty bones, fruit trimmings, some warm-from the bottom of someone's cereal bowl-milk).
Tried returing them to their flocks and the roosters were too aggressive so I now have 3 little flocks with 2 hatches of chicks coming up.
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We have just been given three "monster" white hens(no other way to describe them compared to our two remaining black ones)We tried to intoduce them to each other with disastrous results. The new ones took over the run and "cornered" the black ones who just sat there shivering while feathers flew!Dh has now divided the chicken house and outside run with mesh plus added these really nifty feeding and watering "tube things" he made out of pvc pipe which have open ends going into both runs. So now both flocks can see each other and hopefully in a couple of weeks we can remove the door in the mesh(supposed to be done in the dark)they can wake up and mingle happily. Well that's the theory...anyone any other ideas.
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ps Oh and we have 4 silky bantam teenagers(I keep telling them they are all sisters!)we'll have to introduce to our silky bantam flock one day soon.The joys of owning poultry!
Also as I don't post regularly does this count as coming out of lurkdom!!
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Alison and Lisa-
The yahoo group "yardpoultry" or the forums at homesteadingtoday.com might be of help.
With a few new Austrolorps (they will have to be quarantined) I will be in the same position in a few days.
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You can buy a protective salve for her at the feed store. They usually keep it in the Equine section, it's for treating cuts and abrasions. The good thing about the salve is that in addition to being very healing, it tastes awful, so the other chickens won't peck her and you don't have to keep her so isolated. With the salve, you'll be able to put her back in "general population" much sooner.
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thanks for the link Viv. I have posted .here a picture of the pvc tube feeder dh made.ds(8)is really involved in our poultry. He was pleased as punch last night to discover an egg in the black hens coup(they had gone off the lay with the cold weather)."Mum the golf ball I put in their nesting box worked; it tricked them into laying."the photo below is of ds 3 years ago with our first surprise lot of silky babies.
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In Australia I assume you are entering winter so some lights on a time should keep your hens laying. My birds get about 14 hours of light a day to keep them in production. The timer goes on around 2-3AM and off in the middle of the morning. They have a naturally lit sunset so they have time to get on their roosts. This year we used outdoor florescents to keep the cost for electricity down.
Philothea , I will be checking for the equine salve to add to my farm toolbox. I am sure plenty of animals could use it-thanks.
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