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    Best breed to attack hawks

    I don’t know of any breed that can or will fight off a hawk. But, my neighbor allows his hens and rooster to free range along the side of the road and in large farm fields and he doesn’t lose any birds! We live less than 1/8 mile away and hawks have killed off several of our birds over the...
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    New hens

    Our hens all passed over the last yr from old age. I was caring for my mom who has since passed and we are ready to add 6-8 four month old hens. However, we have a 2 yr old rooster. He wore the old girls down to the point they would hide from him! I have two questions. 1) how long should we keep...
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    Copper egg skelter

    I think they are nice! Thing is I want the spiral skelter. My hubby is going to try to make me one that will hold 24 medium to large eggs tomorrow. He may wind up with a dozen, but if he makes it look good, I'll post it. From the prices I have been seeing for these things, I think $12 will sell...
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    Egg Skelter

    Did you have to pay the high postage? I found a nice one for $12, but they wanted $16.95 for postage and handling.
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    bald bums and under feathers on ALL birds even rooster

    We are stumped! When dusting for mites and treating with net tex because we began having serious bald bum issues we found every bird (chickens) is losing feathers badly. We found no mites, but to be safe we changed all bedding and cleaned the coop. We then used powdered 5% seven dust on...
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