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    Came home to over half my chickens missing or torn apart

    Yeah I know, and it sucks. but thankfully I live in farm country and the random gunshot in the night is easy enough to explain to the neighbors down the road. but first I'm installing cameras so I can figure out if it was a fox, coon, or the neighbors dog. its a boxer that's been hanging around...
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    Came home to over half my chickens missing or torn apart

    They have a 24ftx10ft cattle panel hoop coop that I built, but it is open front and they completely refuse to use it except for laying. they dig holes and nest in the ground most of the time in groups when they sleep. I'm aware of the risks and have lost one here or there over the last 2 years...
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    Came home to over half my chickens missing or torn apart

    that's the thing, the heads weren't missing. of the 5 hens I found none of them had any damage what so ever, other than missing their heads, and for 4 of them, their heads within five feet of the bodies, completely intact. and the other one was basically untouched other than being killed. the...
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    Came home to over half my chickens missing or torn apart

    So im not in exactly the best of moods while writing this as it all happened within the last hour. but this evening I arrived home to find my Brahma x Black Australorp rooster sitting on my car in my front yard. This was already very strange as he has never jumped by 5ft fence that I can...
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    Introducing new chickens to the flock

    So for some context, I'm right at 1 year of keeping my own chickens, and i'm sitting at 6 Black Australorp hens, 1 Egyptian Fayoumi hen, and 3 Dark Brahma roosters. yes that's too many roosters, but since one of them is very social, I plan on culling the other two this weekend. one of my BA's...
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    Does the size of the parents matter when hatching out crosses?

    For starters, forgive my ignorance as I have zero experience in breeding and hatching my own chicks. But I have a mixed flock which I've always intended to create crosses from, mostly for fun/curiosity, and the roosters are quite large, Brahmas and Jersey Giants, and the hens are black...
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    Gender of my two pekin ducks?

    If they both turn out to be drakes, then they're destained for the freezer. Well be kinda bummed out though with all the time put into them, but I do really want to get some muscovys anyways.
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    Gender of my two pekin ducks?

    Hello there, I'm rasing my first flock of chickens and i've got two pekins mixed in that I got from tractor supply. They are right at 14 weeks, and I'm still clueless if they are male or female. I've tried listening to their quacks, but they only give out short ones so it's hard to tell, leading...
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    Ordered Dark Brahmas Roosters, Did I Get Hens?

    This is the first flock I've ever had, so I wanted some interesting breeds to mix it up, leading me to the Brahma. I ended up ordering all roosters with the intent to cross them with the Black Australorp and Egyptian Fayoumi hens I received. All of them were ordered from McMurray Hatchery and I...
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    Black Australorp, Jersey Giant, or something else?

    I'm in Effingham SC. My end goal is to have chickens for meat and eggs for myself and to give to family/friends by hatching out my own stock. I simply picked the BA because it seemed like a good dual purpose breed that filled those needs. The deeper I get into this hobby, the more I realize how...
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    Black Australorp, Jersey Giant, or something else?

    Well thankfully I'm not planning on showing any of them,(except on here of course lol), just looking more for a small homestead type flock.
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    Black Australorp, Jersey Giant, or something else?

    I got 15 straight run BA's with the intent of selecting 2 roosters to keep and then processing the rest when they reach the proper weight. This is because I do want to hatch my own chicks, and I have thought about getting better genetic stock. which breeders would you recommend?
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    Black Australorp, Jersey Giant, or something else?

    I ordered 15 BA from McMurry and they are now 7-8 weeks old. (haven't lost a single one!) Now while most of them have the normal blue/pinkish legs with dark scaling, I've noticed that 2 of them have extremely bright yellow legs with the same dark scaling and also have quite a bit of yellow in...
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    First Time Chicken Owner in SC

    Hello, my name is Andrew. After finally buying a house with some land I've decided to give raising my own poultry a shot. I am starting off my flock with some Black Australorps, Dark Brahmas, and Egyptian Fayoumi, all from Murry McMurry (along with 2 Pekin ducks from Tractor Supply). They're all...
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