How to raise Backyard Chickens: [CHICKENS-101] Re: panicked and/or hurt pullet

I'm in agreement with Cathryn, she def sounds like she needs a big dose of tlc & that big rooster needs to be segregted in the rabbit hutch he's brob too much for her how many other hens do you have? Jane & co
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, CathrynTherese <cathryntherese@...> wrote:
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> Sounds like she was hurt from rough handling by too many roosters. That can break an egg in her so I'd get her somewhere safe where she will be happy or lock up the cockerels/roosters, and let her be out. Look her over and see if in their hormone crazed state if they beat her up too.Â Poor pullet. I'd put her in a quiet place tonight, (I bring mine in in a large box with an oven rack for a cover, with food and water, and treats. with b vitamins and poultry vitamins in water for stress).Â Did she get to eat today? Was her crop full?Â Often cockerels will jump pullets when they try to eat and drink.Â
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> From: Sara Mandal-Joy <smjlist@...>
> To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 9:20 PM
> Subject: [CHICKENS-101] panicked and/or hurt pullet
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> I've got a bantam light brahma pullet, about 9 months old now. She's
> been laying for last few months. She has two bantam roos to deal with,
> which is way too many - she's wearing an apron, but hasn't seemed hurt
> or bothered by their attentions. But my full size light brahma roo has
> been coming after her last couple days. I shoo him off, which he isn't
> happy about, but I think I need to just keep her in a protected/separate
> space for a time at least. In two weeks we move to our new home, with a
> big coop with a flexibility in pen spaces, and with fifty new point of
> laying hens (the breeder has been growing them out for me since
> January). So there will be plenty of hens to go around for the three
> roos (one full size and two bantam). But I'm concerned that something
> bad happened to her today. I don't know if the big rooster "got her"
> and she was hurt. She doesn't seem to be bleeding back there. But when
> I went to tuck the chickens in tonight I found her hiding back in the
> coop for the bantams, emitting the most distressing sounds. Repeated
> moans or cries. Kind of like the sounds a hen makes when she has laid
> an egg, only very softly, with beak closed, and repeatedly. She sounded
> more panicked than hurt. When I held her up against me, inside my
> jacket, she gradually calmed down. The minute I brought her out it
> would start again. I did get her to eat a bit by holding some food in
> my padded glove while she was mostly under the cover of my jacket. I
> was going to bring her inside in a small cage by herself tonight as when
> the little roos gathered round, dancing around her, she got freaked.
> But once they were tucked in and quiet she wanted down and went in to
> their coop as well. I'm going to try to get out there fairly early,
> before they are very awake or active, and put her in the rabbit hutch
> for tomorrow, see how she is doing.
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> Has anyone seen a young chicken act this way? Wondering what I could do
> to help her... Hard to know without knowing what is wrong.
> Sara, SE Kansas
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