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Thank you for sharing this. I will check to make sure whether our coop is clear of this. You say you can only see them at night with a flashlight... did you just wait and hope to see them crawling? I'm wondering how to be able to tell for sure.

May I ask how you treated for the chicken ticks?

My assumption when she was stroking the neck of the bird was to help relax it, which it seemed very relaxed to me. That is not the first time I have seen that depicted, there is a scene i one of the Lord of the Rings movies, with a goat. It might have been a nervous gesture since she was being...

Thank you for this. It is really great to know that a person who has lived on a farm all their life still sees the taking of life so seriously. It really helps allay my fears. --V

Me too, it really helped me. Plus she is such a gentle soul, it's just very helpful to know that gentle souls can (and do!) still take charge of their food security. The headline is: Respectful Chicken Harvest:

::nods:: As for method, I plan to follow the method in the following video, which it's said could also be done in the cone, so I think this may be similar to what you're describing. In the comments section, there is information about the benefits in terms of minimizing suffering and increasing...

You'll need to keep the birds confined for a time period so that they orient to the coop/nestbox. This is easiest done when they are young and they grow up with the idea that they retreat to the nest/coop to lay. But over time I've had a couple of birds start to lay in the range and I've had to...

You're right, of course. But we do have to remember that nature needs predators and we're part of nature so we have to strike a good balance. Sounds like that's what you're talking about.

One of my hens lays pink eggs-- she's one of my best layers and 3 of the 10 eggs that hatched were her eggs. Will be interesting to see if any new pullets lay pink. But all I meant was that people on BYC, not familiar with EEs as a landrace, are saying that all mixes that lay colorful eggs are...

Wow. That is so totally not what gets said all over BYC and everywhere else. Ok, well there you have it. I'm constantly learning about new threads on BYC that are utterly fascinating and which could keep me very busy if I responded to everything that interests me. heh. But, people are...