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    My chicken can't produce egg shell

    I'll try calcium powder. Hard to tell if they eat the oyster shell that I put out there and I don't have crab shells at the moment which they really like. Thanks!
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    My chicken can't produce egg shell

    For the past 7 month I have not been able to diagnose/treat/fix my chickens inability to produce an egg shell. She's a 2.5 year old RIR and started early summer to just lay "egg yolk" (its a mess to clean up daily... but I'm more worried about her health). She then got sick (the other Chicken...
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    Predator Identification

    Oregon. True. Thanks. Sad to hear about your birds Yeah that was my last comment about. We (girl) can only complain so much when (guy) does not take the time to put the equipment up he bought for $300+ 2 years ago. He has all electric fence supplies (he is an electrician and he set up my...
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    Predator Identification

    I don't think we have wolverines here. They are super rare but they would be a lot more cooler to see than a coon. I'll send an update if we catch the culprit. Thanks.
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    Predator Identification

    Update: The wire was bend, not ripped. My BF went up to the pen for awhile in the dark but didn't see anything. Today when he wanted to set the trap up, the creature had come back and pried the fence open to 3x its size and pulled one of the dead birds out. He installed now a trap inside the...
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    Predator Identification

    My BF raises Chicken and Turkeys and yesterday something got into his turkey pen and killed the entire flock (12 adult birds). We built the enclose predator proof - or so we thought with 16 gauge welded wire fencing and bird net - but something pulled the welded wire apart wide enough to get in...
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    Please Help! Raccoon Problem!!! Click Here!!!!!!!!

    You could drive 6" galvanized Garden stakes into the ground where they dig (200/$20 so pretty affordable). I turned my backyard into Fort Knox after a coon killed two of my chickens. In addition to an electric fence (not cheap, ~$300), I lined the top of my (wood) fence with carpet tack strips...
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