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    BYC members in Massachusetts?

    I'm looking for hire someone to tend my chickens while I'm out of town for a month in Jan/Feb. Just someone to fill their water/food and shovel them out after snow. I'm in Shrewsbury. Any takers?
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    Temporary re-home (advice please)

    near Worcester, Massachusetts
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    Temporary re-home (advice please)

    Thanks for the insight. appreciate the help.
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    Temporary re-home (advice please)

    I have 3 Ameraucana hens (the last remaining from an original flock of 8) who are 5 years old. They are in a huge coop with an enclosed run, and 3 seasons a year they free-range on my half acre fenced-in yard. They live quite the life! My husband and I are heading to Florida this winter for 3...
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    two hens attacking a third - help!

    This is the enclosure where i closed them up while it was raining
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    two hens attacking a third - help!

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    two hens attacking a third - help!

    No, i just put them inside their enclosure instead of letting them stay out in my yard free ranging
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    two hens attacking a third - help!

    She's not sick as far as I can tell. Yesterday they were outside with me all day while I was gardening and everyone seemed totally normal
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    two hens attacking a third - help!

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    two hens attacking a third - help!

    I have 5 hens who have been together since birth and are 4 years old. This morning I noticed Tiny, kind of in the middle of the pecking order, being attacked by the top hen and one who's normally at the bottom. They were huddled around her and pecking her head. I broke them up and they...
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    How to deal with grief? Chicken loss

    I just took a hen to the vet to be euthanized because she had flystrike so bad. She was my best hen and leader of the flock and I am so deeply sad. I bathed her and picked the larvae off her body, fighting off nausea the whole time because it was so disgusting but I just kept thinking about how...
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    How to deal with grief? Chicken loss

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