chicken injuries Archives - Life is Better with Chickens https://betterwithchickens.com/tag/chicken-injuries/ Triumph (and sometimes trouble) at the henhouse Sat, 24 Feb 2024 15:38:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://betterwithchickens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/cropped-cropped-p_egg-rotated-1-32x32.jpg chicken injuries Archives - Life is Better with Chickens https://betterwithchickens.com/tag/chicken-injuries/ 32 32 Lang, the Fox, and a bit about Chicken Predators https://betterwithchickens.com/lang-the-fox-and-chicken-predators/ https://betterwithchickens.com/lang-the-fox-and-chicken-predators/#respond Tue, 03 Oct 2023 06:00:17 +0000 https://betterwithchickens.com/?p=328 It was a late August afternoon. I was on the phone with a friend when I heard a wild cacophony of clucking and bah-gawking circling the house. I looked out the side porch and saw the silver blur of Lang dart by, and then what my eye-brain synapses decided was (taking in a big fluffy...

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]]> https://betterwithchickens.com/lang-the-fox-and-chicken-predators/feed/ 0 Minnie and the Mystery Malady: When Your Chicken Gets an Insect Bite https://betterwithchickens.com/when-your-chicken-gets-an-insect-bite/ https://betterwithchickens.com/when-your-chicken-gets-an-insect-bite/#respond Tue, 15 Aug 2023 06:00:42 +0000 https://betterwithchickens.com/?p=298 It was late on a Monday afternoon in mid-July in east Tennessee. A real warm day, by local standards. I was about to corral the chickie girls into their run for snacks, preens, and drinks before bed. They had been out most of the afternoon and were lolling about in the corner of the yard...

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]]> https://betterwithchickens.com/when-your-chicken-gets-an-insect-bite/feed/ 0 Lady the Chicken and the Red-Tailed Hawk https://betterwithchickens.com/lady-the-chicken-and-the-red-tailed-hawk/ https://betterwithchickens.com/lady-the-chicken-and-the-red-tailed-hawk/#respond Tue, 25 Apr 2023 06:00:44 +0000 https://betterwithchickens.com/?p=212 The first thing you’ll probably notice after a predator threatens your chickens—they all disappear. I mean absolutely all of them and I mean absolutely disappeared. Still and silent—not a cluck, feather, or a shadow to be seen. This was what we found on an afternoon in October 2021. Where the girls had all just been...

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