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I hear what you are saying, My last roo tore a hole in the side of one of my hens with his spurs and he was always smacking my wife and myself when we weren't looking. I used to grind down his spurs with a dremmel tool, my wife would wrap him in a towel and we would take about 3 minutes on each...

A "Friend" who works at the local farm and garden store convinced me to foster a 3-4 month old Rhode Island Red rooster. He is starting to develop his spurs, they are just nubs now. I went through this with my previous rooster "BB". She said to use the Dr.Naylor Dehorning paste. Has anyone...

I have a 15 month old Auracona hen that is otherwise healthy who started wheezing severely tomight and I though she was going to die in my arms. I rinsed her out with water and coaxed her back to life but it was touch and go for a while. I emptied her crop by flushing it but her lungs sound...

We lost Cybil last week, her symptoms were an enlarged area between her legs and under her vent and it was hard, I thought she was eggbound. She was 2 years and 4 months old and hasn't been laying for a few months. I also thought she had an impacted crop as it was also enlarged, I terated her...

Quote: Thanks for teh reply. I have heard of feeding their egg shells back tothem how do you do that, do you break them into tiny pieces or what? They have a cup of oyster shell right nest to their food trough that I keep full for them and I always mix a bout a pint in with 10 pounds of...

The way I understand it DE is not an insecticide and it has no nutritional value and it is not poison of any kind. It works liek Boraxo does on fleas. It is timy little sharp shards that will not hurt the chickens but anykind of bug, mite, worm insect or whatever that it comes in contact with...

My five almost 2 year old hens are not laying many eggs lately, I am lucky to get 5 a week. I know they are laying more but they are eating them befor I can get them out of the box. The problem is their shells are thin,they lay the egg in the egg box and peck at it to get it under their...

My five almost 2 year old hens are not laying many eggs lately, I am lucky to get 5 a week. I know they are laying more but they are eating them befor I can get them out of the box. The problem is their shells are thin,they lay the egg in the egg box and peck at it to get it under their...

Quote: On the upper right hand corner of the pop up is an X in a black circle, click on that and it will go away, never to be heard from again....

Hi, I guess this fits in to the "Random" part. I am thinking of switching to Consumer Cellular for Cell Phone serivce and I am looking for 2 things. 1. Can anyone give me a thumbs up or thumbs down on thier service? 2. They have a deal where if you are referred by someone who used Consumer...

I am in Vermont where we have we have 6 seasons a year, Summer, Fall, Stick, Winter, Mud and Spring. Stick season is when all the leaves are off the trees and there isn't any snow yet so all you see inthe woods is sticks, Mud season is when the surface starts to melt but the earth below it...

Quote: Normaly I would agree with you, he has done some feather damage in the past and I wouldn't be surprised to see a little retribution but I saw him go in all on his own, he seemed prety excited and he was clucking like he had a treat he wanted to share or use as bait to get a hen close...

Quote: You're right, he is a good boy and I get to tell people "I have a handsome rooster". He is a great singer and guardian when the girls are laying, he also is constantly on the watch when they are outside.

This may be the worng place to post this or it may be the right place to post this because I don't know if there is a right or wrong answer. I live in North Central Vermont. My coop is surrounded by snow, snow that is too deep to shovel out of the run so my 5 hens and one rooster spend a lot of...

I have a PBR hen, 21 months old that was eggbound a week ago so we took her inside to work it out, we live in Vemrmont. I think the couple of days inside triggered her to molt, now she is back in the coop but loosing most of her feathers, do you think I should have a houseguest again for a...

I have a 21 month old hen who became egg bound, she is OK now. One cause I read was not enough calcium in her diet, even though they have a container of Oyster Shell free choice I never see her at it, that doesn't mean she never takes any, I just heve never seen her at it. I am wondering, is...

Excellent idea, there is a microbrewery in town that I am going to check with to see if they will share. It is Rock Art brewery in Morrisville VT.

Not only do I shovel a path to the coop I also uncover some grass so they can graze.

Hi Vermonters: You probably have seenteh weather report, 30 below zero is ocming soon. What is everyone else doing, I plan totake my chicks in the basement for a couple of days. I have never done this before, does anyone have any coments or suggestions? What is everyone else planning?

So everyone agrees that a hawk will take a chicken if given the opportunity. Take away the opportunity and you solve the problem. I have an open pen for my girls and roo, I have strung lines across it from near by trees and the coop itself and I hang CD's from the lines on string about 2-3...