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    Help! My wife is mad at me for feeding the chickens pizza!

    Everyone likes pizza! I’ve had backyard pet chickens almost all my life, over 40 years and have always thrown table food out for my birds. From pizza, to a thanksgiving turkey carcass, They love it! It makes them happy. Their eggs are beautiful. Be more concerned of ovarian cancer from egg...
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    Without a Trace Seen with my eyes

    Mine can’t come out to play anymore, I have too much thick woods, too many creepers. I’m hoping to fence in my yard sometime so they can scratch and be somewhat free happy chickens.
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    Without a Trace Seen with my eyes

    It is heartbreaking
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    Without a Trace Seen with my eyes

    So a couple months ago I posted a thread about my girls disappearing without a trace, no feathers, bodies, etc. Well I witnessed the culprit, and not to my surprise it was Coyote. I kept them locked up and for the First time in 4 days the ladies got to go out, while I was outside fixing a...
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    without a trace

    And you may be right about the interruption, but what she brought home had been missing for about 3 days. Game cams are a possible investment if I can afford a few. Thanks
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    without a trace

    Did she lose them one at a time? Or all at one time? Fox got my large flock about 5 years ago, (I was in NC then,my fault, did not close my gate that night and awoke to a massacre, I still have guilt, never quite got over that) and last May I was gone from 10 am to 12 and came home to quietness...
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    without a trace

    What would take a chicken, and leave it dead, almost completely unscathed (slight trauma to the upper breast, no blood) and my dog would find it and be carrying it around? I've never had anything like this happen, and I have had pet chickens since I was a child. There has always been feathers...
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    without a trace

    I know that happens, my experience with foxes has always been the whole flock, except for the lucky few that got away. You are probably correct, although I am so suspicious of this heavy pawed boxer, that is jealous of my girls, and wants to play with them, and then I caught her with the...
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    without a trace

    My girls are disappearing one by one, every couple days. Another Amberlink went missing today. Free rangers during the day, she was here this morning, and after noon I could not find her anywhere. My boxer brought one up 2 days ago, that has been missing about 4 days, just slightly maimed but...
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    Scissor Beak? overnight?

    Yes, thanks, I suggested to her not to allow any of the eggs to hatch
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    Scissor Beak? overnight?

    Thank you,
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    My Amberlinks have started laying much sooner than expected, YAY!

    My Amberlinks have started laying much sooner than expected, YAY!
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    Scissor Beak? overnight?

    This is my friends Rhode Island Red, approximately 12-14 weeks old, and today we saw her beak is weird, I think is called scissor beak. She is eating and drinking, but is not normal, what do we do? It's as if it appeared overnight. Could she have damaged it on something? Her chickens free...
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    eyes shut breathing through mouth

    Thanks for your reply, everything is normal, my vet (who is a chicken owner too) told me first to moisten her eyes and get them open. My friend helped me and her eyelids are not stuck shut but just closed, we flushed them out, saw her eyes. What we did notice is her throat area is not soft...
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    eyes shut breathing through mouth

    2 days ago, my 2-1/2 year brahma did not come out of the coop, when I went to her, the eyes were shut, her beak is open slight. No discharges are to be seen, no breathing disturbances, but I can't get her to drink or eat, has had about a teaspoon of water in 2 days. I live in the Southern VA...
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