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    Bad Experience w/IDEAL Poultry Hatchery: Normal Occurrence?

    Awesome, its all ways better to hear this kind of story. Good luck on the caunas. I just got 25 more and 15 wellsummers. Gotta have chocolates with the blues. Spend the extra 10 bucks and all ways vaccinate your mail order chicks. We have lost so many to hawks ,coons, heat and everything else...
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    incubater temperatures

    Can anyone tell me if a hova-bater w/turner is a good starter. My legbars will be ready in 6 months ,so im trying to propare. A few swedish flowers in there as well. See the white spot on the roosters heads in the center. 2 roos and 6 pullets on the legbars, and who knows what the flower hens...
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    Sweds and Legbars. Happy Happy Happy

    OMG. Just picked up the coolest chicks ever. 6 girl Cream Legbars, 2 roo Legbars and 5 different color Swedish Flower Hens SRs. My friend Sharron, God bless her, hatched them for me and i am so stoked. They are so awesome. Instant love for these chicks. My third different Flower Hen batch. All...
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    Rattlesnake in my chicken coop!

    I have killed a 3' rattler and a 7' chicken snake all ready this year. Not to bad, but i do not like snakes of any kind. Texas hill country is loaded with snakes. I have positioned all nest boxes low enough to see for my 5 yr old. I remember as a 5 yr old, I reached up to a nest and found a 6'...
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    Re-purposed trampoline to a chicken tractor!

    That is the most awesome thing yet. Hope you don't get mad at me for doing the same. What a good run, safe from hawks and others. Just so happens ,I have an old trampoline. Thanks for the creativity and God bless.
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    I lost 4 Chickens today.

    I will say you are probably right about the fox. I was thinking it happened early before the sun came up. Then a coon could've nabbed em from there roost. This sounds more like a playful fox given the time and being free range. Maybe a Bobcat?
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    I lost 4 Chickens today.

    I lost a swedish flower hen this morning also. The head missing only. We need to set the coon traps again. My guess is that they kill one or two and leave the meat so that it can soften up a bit. They seem to eat more of the bird when they have to pull them through the wire. Almost needing a...
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    Bad Experience w/IDEAL Poultry Hatchery: Normal Occurrence?

    it just so happens i lost all 35 polish all cochins and all red caps. the gold sexlinks are still alive. i think all hatcheries have disease spells like with my polish. I hate paying for diseased animals and risking my flock of 400. We will order from Cackle and Efowl. We have had the best luck...
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