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    Sponsored Post Nestera Coop Giveaway! Total worth $1595

    I would love to win a Nestera chicken coop. The I would love to win the Nestera chicken coop! There are many cool features on this coop! The automatic door is so convenient especially in the winter when it's freezing outside. I love being able to move the coop around my yard with it's large...
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    My Crop Tube Feeding Journey With My Bird (Pics For Visuals- VERY detailed Post)

    Oh....the maggots I saw inside her were 2 days after her injury, not recently. i re-read it and it seems confusing with typos. i'm sorry. I'm typing on my phone with spell check.
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    My Crop Tube Feeding Journey With My Bird (Pics For Visuals- VERY detailed Post)

    I had a long month of heartbreaks. My chicken was attacked by a predator either a raccoon or fox and she was dragged into the woods just outside my fence. She was an 8 lb beautiful Colombian rock and the queen of my flock. She even attacked me a few times to protect her girls when I moved to...
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    Difficult dilemma: One remaining chicken was attacked by a raccoon and may actually survive. When i

    Hi. I have a chicken that hasn't eaten for an entire week after a bite/injury. She had bleeding on her comb & head and teeth marks on her sore neck. I bought some Ensure finally thinking the vitamins/minerals would help her heal. I feed to her in a child medicine syringe. She drank water on her...
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    Neem oil for mites

    Thank you for your response. I use pine shavings in the nesting boxes. And I have been using DE in the boxes, under the linoleum and rubbed into the walls of the coop. The first time I did this I noticed the next day a huge decrease in their redness. I also sprayed most of the coop with...
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    Neem oil for mites

    Natural flea and tick shampoo and vasoline didn't do much. I know I was supposed to apply another coat of vasoline a few days later. We're in a blizzard and cant really tend to the chickens how I wanted to. I can see their legs are red/pick and slightly swollen at the base of the feet. I know...
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    Long Islanders.... I know you are out there

    Dear LIAnimalLovers My Colombian Cross Rocks (mix between Rhode Island red and Colombian) are very friendly! One follows me around the yard and will sit on my lap. She also hangs out in the coop with me while I am cleaning it. If you get Barred Rocks, get all Barred Rocks since they will pick on...
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    Do I have a rooster here?

    What we all thought was a rooster in the photos, is actually a hen. First she started squating in front of me. Now she's laying eggs! I was told by my neighbor, who has menagerie of farm animals that they are all hens.
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    When do Speckled Sussex begin to lay eggs?

    Yes. I have 2 Colombian Rocks. The 1st one is laying an egg for 3 days in a row. Has been squating for the past 2 weeks. Got her comb and wattles in first out of the bunch. My 4 speckled Sussex have flesh colored/ pale pink comb and wattles and havent really changed much. They are all 20 weeks...
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    Comment by '8HopefulHens' in article 'The Breakfast Club in Western NC'

    Very creative. I love it. Looks like you thought of everything. I saw an Amish coop similar to this and they wanted $2.5K
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    Long Islanders.... I know you are out there

    Sure. Long Island Poultry in Riverhead or Agway in Riverhead have them. Also, Agway in port jefferson and I think there's still an Agway in Hicksville. Agway usually starts selling them around Easter and ends at the end of August. You can fax them an order form from their website for the # of...
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    Long Islanders.... I know you are out there

    Thanks MeepsMeeps for your post. My two neighbors a few houses over have chickens. I think they might be interested in taking the 2 Barred Rocks. He and I are playing phone tag, but I think I heard him say on his message that they'd take them. Problem solved!! Just hope I'm not left with...
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    Do I have a rooster here?

    What do you do if you want to keep the rooster and also want to eat your hen's eggs? Make him a bachelor pad and keep him separate?
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    Long Islanders.... I know you are out there

    Hi other Long Islanders, I am in Eastern Suffolk. Got my first chicks back in May. I think 1/2 of them might be roosters !!! Ughhh. Have 2 Colombian Rocks, 4 Speckled Sussex and 2 Barred Plymouth Rocks. 3 or 4 might be cockerels. When the young girl picked them from the chick cages, she...
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    Do I have a rooster here?

    Thanks for your replies.
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