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    Oatmeal with cinnamon and honey

    Also, they should not have avocado or citrus-------My chickens are so spoiled they expect treats for a week after you give them some. mine LOVE CORN, cherries, cantaloupe-watermelon rinds. I gave them cucumbers from my garden and they went crazy for it too
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    lBR ROO TRIED TO BLIND SIDE ME

    We have one that is fiesty, and I just steer clear(we call him fog horn leg horn) He is smart I will tell you----------he never leaves the immediate coop area, ever since we had a fox 2 years ago!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    My "couple" has been broken apart!!!

    I had 4 banties that lived out the first group of 30 I got from 2008. One of the aracauana hens hatched 4 babies in april 2009 because I forgot to collect the eggs soon enough. The babies hatched and 3 lived. Shortly after they were born, we noticed that the hen, the 3 babies, and our japanese...
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    Hatchery chicks died-why???

    Hello- This is the 2nd time I got chicks from a hatchery; the first grouip all lived--- I just got 25 from a hatchery; they are on my front porch, nice and warm, no drafts, the right food, fresh water........ after 2 days, a little black silkie started to look sleepy and stopped moving around...
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    SILKIE 2 days old seems sick---

    I have had babies b4, and the same thing happened one time- a silkie is just laying down look sleepy, not running moving aound...........anything I can do? just arrived monday. I have it comfortable and am trying to keep my eyes on it. But when this happened before, the baby died..........hate this
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    baby is not right, what to do?

    I have not been collecting my eggs, and surpise in my coop were 4 babies.....(must have hatched that day)....they were with the mom so I let them be.after 2 days, I went in and noticed that 2 were huddled alone and shivering, but the other 2 were tucked up under the moms wings, so I brought the...
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    Hen hid her eggs?!

    Well, after I put them back in the nest, I went in again last night and she pushed them away again, and was hanging out with the frizzle---so I guess they are done? Also, if she left them on the floor, and was not sitting on them, would they have been too cold anyway? I think so, I am in nh.
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    Hen hid her eggs?!

    I don't have a bator, but the best I can do is the same as when we got the chicks from mcmurrays, which was give them the corner of the porch, a large area with a heat lamp, soft bedding, etc- and they all made it well!!!!!!!!!----but should I move her now into that spot, and if she is okay and...
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    Hen hid her eggs?!

    My silkie hen has been sitting on 5 eggs for 18 days. When I went to close the coop door last night, I went in an noticed she was not on her eggs, but hanging out with my frizzle, in the corner. I went over to her nest, and the eggs were gone!!!!!!!! I put my hands through the straw, and low and...
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    They killed my babies... and got away with it. :(

    Yes- I agree that you should do something..........make a big deal about it..17 years old that is no excuse! People wonder why children and teenagers get away with so much these days, and I think that it is due to not being responsible for their bad behaviors. I would press charges, threaten to...
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    Keep dog out of the coop!

    My father in law fenced the immediate area around the coop with chicken fence, and that was fine however, my english pointer after pawing at one side of it completely ripped it down over the course of a few months( I had no idea until I heard the shrieks of terror when he finally got through)...
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    newbie question-hen sitting on eggs

    The one thing I am worried about is the "turning" I have not done that-- will they be deformed? but many years ago b4 people did all this work how did they come out ok? Should I not bother?
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    Rooster has begun crowing incessantly

    I have 23 banties- and 11 of them are roosters---- they crow all day and night, starting at 4? and stop about dusk. They also crow, when I come home from work at 5 when they hear my car, when my boyfriend gets home from night shift at 2:30...................and if someone walks by my house they...
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    newbie question-hen sitting on eggs

    I have a black silkie that has been laying on a few eggs since2sundays ago.......... She has decided to make a nest below the boxes, and is always sitting on them, she is getting up to eat and drink. It has been now 14 days.............. I have had my bantams for about 1 year now, never had...
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    FERTIZILED EGGS?!

    Since last week, one of the hens had made a little nest under the nesting boxes!!!!!!!! and she has been sitting on them since about last week? only 5 eggs..................should I wait until they hatch?
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