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More than one million chickens are thought to have died after an egg farm caught fire in southern Illinois on Wednesday night. Farina Farms Inc Poultry Farm housed approximately 1.2 million birds, and all were reportedly killed. Three buildings caught fire, with flames reaching between 13,000...

My buff orp hen did this today. fine now. she was doing the sneezing thing too and the terrible wheezing. OK now

YEA what a relief.

no video. thanks for the great advice. I knew I could count on this forum. It seems she is back to normal already. I will keep an eye on her. Kind of feel bad for culling the RIR years ago when I heard that. Live and learn.

I had this once with a RIR hen and I culled her. Do I need to cull this one? It just started this morning. She's young.

I used the incubator with 12 eggs and got 10. Not bad for a first timer. Some are pure RIR and some are buffs crossed with RIR. The rooster got murdered by something, but he gave me a lot of fertilized eggs before he went. They are 3 full weeks old today and doing great. A lady gave me 4...

Australorps are very cool birds. Big mellow bird. Good luck. I would not let them be around roos until they can swing a stick.

When canning rabbit I can fit a whole rabbit in one quart jar. I do not can rib meat so it's basically 4 legs and tenderloin. It would feed 3 hungry people. I have smoked the rabbit first and canned. I just did 3 rabbits packed raw with chicken stock. I love canning venison. BTW the rabbit...

Woke up to 4 healthy chicks, more coming. Pretty fun. Gonna need another coop. Happy Spring chicken farmers!

Coon. Good luck.

I feel better knowing I don't have bears in my woods. Holy cow

ah that's too bad. unfortunately it happens. could be almost anything but I would guess coon. A fox would eat the whole chicken. Could be a dog. I've been battling the dog problem.

can a hatchery sex an egg?

I'm not even sure animal control still exists in my county. The neighbor is aware, will probably keep dogs locked up when not walking them. I live in the country, deep woods, so I'm used to the normal predators.

Thanks. Nabor is sorry and wants to buy me birds but no thanks. I have enough chicks. Maybe because it's holy week the dog got to go home but next week ain't holy week LOL