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I've been having a problem with a hawk killing several chicks - I think it's up to five or six now? I put out CDs, but that only briefly worked. I've locked the chicks in their house for the time being, but that of course is not sustainable. The trouble is, the yard is not an ideal setup for...

Man, nothing like an emergency to get me to log in after months. So, I have this dead chick. She was about 2.5 months old, a Red Sex Link. She was dead in the chick-house this morning. There was no sign of predation. They have plenty of food and water. I had a quick look at the corpse, and the...

My aunt had two chickens, one of which are three small snakes and died not long afterwards. I thought that she might have gotten an impacted or overfilled crop. Or had trouble digesting the snakes. Does that seem reasonable? Has anyone else had chickens eat snakes?

Anybody want to play two truths and a lie?

So, I have a raccoon problem. I'm pretty sure a raccoon got into my chick flock and took out several chicks. Problem One. The yards are large, and totally not raccoon proof-able. Problem Two. A hunter/trapped friend of ours referred to the number of coons as a "bazillion." I know one way of...

Hi, I'm Embuck. I'm not actually new here, but I thought I'd do this introduction thing. Better late than tardy, right? I've been working with chickens for five or six years now, and I currently have two flocks, totalling about 150-175 chickens. Most of them are Black Australorps and...

First, I don't know if waddling has a specific definition in the poultry world. So, if you are misled by the title, I'm sorry. The patient is a 4 week old Ameracana chick. Yesterday she started to waddle around on her tail. She almost always moves like that now. She has her tail end down...

Hello, We currently have some new chicks, almost two weeks old. Three days ago, when I went in I found a chick being chased and picked by the others. Her vent was nasty, all red. I attributed the redness to the picking. She seemed to have lost all muscular control; a whitish liquid was oozing...

Hello, I have two birds now that are ailing. Here's the whole story. Yesterday late evening, I went into the house and Firecracker, one of the pullets, was wheezing when she breathed. They had in there all day, and the air was thick with dust. Assuming it was the dust, I let it air out, and...

I'm totally new to LGDs, so I have a lot of questions. Can an 8 1/2 month old Great Pyrenees Anatolian cross with no livestock experience be trained to guard chickens? How would one train such a dog? Those are the main questions. More will follow depending on the answers to those. Thanks!

One of the new batch of chicks arrived with an injured eye. There was a cut in the upper eyelid, which seemed to be healing. However, over the four weeks we have had her, an infection seems to have developed. I used a triple antibiotic ointment on it, and it seemed to get better, but today it...

One of the newer, younger hens has developed symptoms today. Two hens have previously developed similar symptoms and both died fairly peacefully within a week or two. She is very lethargic, and just listless. While still interested in the treats this afternoon, she left the frenzy early and...

I'm searching for feed recipes, and I thought I would try to find one on here. Should anyone submit a recipe, please no soy! Thanks very much!

This is a test thread to figure it out, to all of those who didn't notice the title and wandered in here by mistake.