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    Pellets or Crumbles

    👍 I shake cayenne pepper powder on our food to keep rats and such away from food since chickens don’t have a spicy taste receptors 😛
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    Pellets or Crumbles

    I think it’s your chickens preference. I find my girls prefer pellet, especially as crumble includes a lot of powder and extra small specks that my girls won’t eat and is therefore waste. And pellet can always be broken smaller if needed. But again it depends on what your chickens seem more...
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    Review by 'AnyaTotoro' in article 'Introducing New Chickens: Using the “See but don’t touch” Method'

    I highly recommend this method, especially as I did have a rough experience with my first introduction of 4 hens with flock of 2, where 1 hen got spooked and ran into the AC unit killing it instantly. I highly recommend you keep the barrier up until the flock starts to ignore and show less...
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    Do chickens get new wing feathers?

    I had a chicken injured last fall by a dog that we were able to save, but in the process, I had to clip back feathers on one wing, so the feathers didn’t contaminate the wound and reduce risk of infection and irritation from rubbing, as the wound was right behind/under the back of her wing...
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    Dud Hen?

    sorry for the delayed post, but fyi she started laying about week after this post! So thank you!
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    Dud Hen?

    Sounds good. I’ll continue to be patient. Exciting news is my 5yo buff Orpington who hasn’t laid since last summer, just laid an egg!
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    Dud Hen?

    I have a dark Brahma hen that almost a year old (got her when she was 2-3 months old last May). However, she hasn’t started laying yet and wondering if she ever will? I read dark Brahmas take long time to mature and start laying (7-9 months maybe), which means she should have started laying this...
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    Chicken Egg with Amoxicillin

    To the chicken who is on antibiotics correct? Not the other chickens?
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    Chicken Egg with Amoxicillin

    I have a chicken on amoxicillin. How long do I have to wait until it’s safe to eat their eggs? Any suggestions on what to do with those eggs? Just compost them?
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    Loud Chicken

    I just don’t want the neighbors to do something stupid like poison the girls, cuz they being big jerks right now. I used to apologize and give them eggs when they super noisy and bitchy until they became a$$holes.
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    Loud Chicken

    She’s a favorelle chicken. We only have 1 of her, but 8 other chickens. We have a large chicken run about 40 or 50 ft long by 10 or 12 ft wide. we also let them free range yard, which is about .5 acres. I can’t really move the enclosure to far, as we like it in the area with trees for coverage...
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    Loud Chicken

    No, she has been doing this for months, and she hasn’t started laying yet (although she should start laying soon based on vent shape and she squatted to be petted a few days ago). I know some of the girls make a fuss when it’s time to lay egg, especially if another hen in their laying spot...
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    Help! Dog Mauled Chicken! Badly Wounded

    We still have a way to go on it healing the major wound part, but it’s on track. Here are updated photos.
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    Loud Chicken

    Majority of the time, they are quiet or making a fuss about a problem, but sometimes they being loud for attention or I don’t know what… how can I discourage and reduce them from being loud? I have 1 hen in particular that’s been loud since day 1 when my husband picked her out, which I was...
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    Help! Dog Mauled Chicken! Badly Wounded

    So we took her on a trip this weekend, since we were expecting bad weather, and didn’t trust her and her wound while we gone, but when we got back Sunday, I put her in the enclosure to start joining the flock again full time. Her wound is looking so much better. I stopped antibiotics Friday...
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