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    Deep litter method

    That's interesting about the fly predators for sale. When you're using the deep litter method, you may actually need to dampen it if it gets too dusty. You need moisture for the composting to take place.
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    Another Sad day....

    I'm terribly sorry. I have been taking entirely too many chances letting my own dog near my chicks. I'm sorry I had to learn through your sad experience.
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    To be or not to be - introducing chicks to hens

    Thanks. It's made it through 48 hours now and I found a vet who looked at it today. ($80 for my $3 chick) I"m going to have to wash the skinless area twice a day for a long time, he told me, removing the scabs as they form. I also have to bandage its neck, which I'd already been doing. It's a...
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    To be or not to be - introducing chicks to hens

    Well I tried introducing my 11 chicks yesterday to one of my hens, with disasterous results. I brought the hen to where the baby chicks were and put her on the ground about 4 feet away. She flew in the air and landed on one of the chicks---my only speckled sussex. I grabbed the hen immediately...
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    Going in the coop to roost at night

    I bell trained my chicks---rang a bell every time I gave them a treat---and when I ring the bell in their house now, they come running. Of course, you have to treat them whenever you ring the bell.
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    introducing Dogs and Chickens

    My dog would definitely kill a chicken, but my rooster attacked her one day when she was innocently standing near a chicken. Now, if you even say "chi..." to her, she turns pale and starts looking over her shoulder nervously for the rooster. I introduced her to my baby chicks the other day...
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    dropped my favorite two day old chick!

    Oh! I'm awfully sorry.
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    Murray McMurray

    Quote: Someone responded to you that they thought they got a black sex-link rooster from McMurray, so forgive me if I thought it was all right to comment on someone else's post. I'm new here.
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    Got my chicks! Got some questions..

    Oh, I'm sorry. I got lost. I'm in the Ellsworth area, but still have a house in Brunswick where I grew up. I got my chicks at Blue Seal last year, but this year I ordered from McMurray. I'm starting to suspect that one of my new 11 is a roo, if not more than one. I have neighbors who aren't...
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    Deep litter method

    I put a bale of pine shavings and a bale of straw in my freshly cleaned 8x8 house and now have about four inches of litter. As soon as I start to see or smell much manure, I'll add more litter and I'll add some dry leaves in the fall. My house does not smell and I haven't had a fly problem. I'm...
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    Deep litter method

    I have pictures of my deep litter if I can figure out how to post them. I live in Maine, so I don't know if warmer climates will have a different experience than I, but my deep litter was about 12 inches when I harvested it this spring. You do not want to clean the litter out more often than...
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    Bloody vent...

    I had some 5 day old chicks picking on some 2 day old chicks, so I made a barrier out of my cookie cooling racks. Being alone is very stressful on a chick. I put one chick in with the picked on younger birds and watched them and kept doing that until each older bird had spent time with the...
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    Got my chicks! Got some questions..

    Hi, I'm from Maine and I got my chicks yesterday. Yours look just like mine. They grow a lot in the first two days. Yours look great to me. I don't know about the moths and feeding chicks grit. Am I the only person who has a 1/3 of an inch wide text entry screen? It makes it very difficult to...
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    Murray McMurray

    Black sex-link roosters have a white dot on their heads. I can't remember who thought they might have a black sex link male. I loved mine.
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    I'm stumped on diagnosing my sleepy hen!

    I hate to be negative, but be careful with that vet business. I spent all day trying to find a vet to see my beloved cockeral last week. The vet put a gas mask on my Orlando and within minuutes , he killed my Boy Boy (while I helped hold him down). I would try my nearest extension service before...
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