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This is more a story about your chickens, which was a good read, but probably doesn't belong in the coop section as it has one sentence about the coop.

Using a doghouse for the "coop" is a great idea, and we've done it for a breeding pen. This article could be better if you'd explain how you did this. The pictures are okay but we'd need more information to build this for ourselves.

Yes, she still could be egg-bound even if pooping. This certainly could be something else as well, but it worries me that she hasn't laid in a couple of days, so she would have one she should have laid but hasn't. After this is resolved, then you can see what symptoms she still has, if any...

I'm sorry about your hen feeling sick. It's improbable that a two-year-old free-ranging chicken could get coccidiosis but doesn't hurt to give her Corid. I'd follow that up with vitamin water and probiotics though. Has her crop been emptying at night? Is her underside squishy or firm...

You're right so I changed my link. I saw peafowl first and am so used to folks calling those peafowl too. Thank you!!

Hiya, and welcome to BYC!! :frow Maybe someone here may know but otherwise you could post it here and ask too: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/peafowl.51/

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We haven't needed any spray though as the pellets are sufficient. Under their nipple bottle waterer, drips will cause the pellets to turn to sawdust. If they see it before I do, they're taking dust baths in it. :rolleyes: I remove that and replace with fresh pellets. I've made a little...

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Hiya, and welcome to BYC!! :frow I'm sorry about whatever happened, and you're right. We can get so attached to them. They are therapeutic even to some of us. If we can help, let us know. Otherwise, you've maybe seen our many forums that you could post in too.

She could be still absorbing the yolk. That string or umbilical cord from that to her will dry up and could take a couple of hours yet. If she's struggling to get it off her and it looks like it's pretty much dry, then you could, but if it's still wet and kind of thick, I'd leave it be. I've...

Oh my, such a sweet picture.

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Ours is asphalt but the coop is metal so when last year we got those 50 cent piece sized, I wondered what it sounded like in there. They had run for the coop in time as it poured rain beforehand.

It sounds most likely a respiratory infection or pneumonia. If she were mine, I'd put her on Poultry Cell vitamin water and an antibiotic. Is there a reason they left her without food? That's rather concerning.

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I'd bet that's egg on her. She probably was trying to lay a larger one and that's how the prolapse happened. Just a guess though. Here's a good article by our BYC Project Manager: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/prolapsed-chicken-vent.78134/ His chicken example looks way worse...

It's next weekend. Gosh how I'd love to go! They don't have anything even in Milwaukee that's this good!

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