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    Disapearing Chicks?

    Would a fox just steal them without leaving a trace?
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    Disapearing Chicks?

    Two nights ago we were woken up to our 5 week old chicks chirping away. I jump out of bed and run out to their enclosure to find everything totally fine except that we were short 7 birds. I heard one chirping and found it on the other side of the house with two small puncture wounds (one on the...
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    Vermont

    Just wanted to say hello to all my fellow Vermonters! We are born and raised Vermonters, in fact my children are 13th generation Vermonters on their dad's side. We bought our first house last summer and finally got chickens this spring. Right now we have a (very) mixed flock of Cornish X's...
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    Vent Gleet in Meat Birds, Treat or Slaughter Them Now?

    I have been giving them yogurt for a few days and the mild cases seem to have cleared up but the two with the bad cases haven't got better, they not any worse just not better. So it looks like we will be taking care of those 2 tonight. I am going to keep feeding the rest of them yogurt and...
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    Best meat bird for me?

    I think I am going to go ahead and order them. Its only for 11 weeks right? And I do have a freezer that needs to be filled.
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    Best meat bird for me?

    I am looking for a different meat bird now too. We have 8 Cornish Crosses and I am not enjoying them. The first day outside our hens (everyone is the same age) pecked their vents and I had some serious wounds. Now thanks to the stress and antibacterial ointment most of them have vent gleet. I...
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    Vent Gleet in Meat Birds, Treat or Slaughter Them Now?

    It looks like several of my Cornish Rock X's have vent gleet. A couple of them have a pretty bad case. They are a little smaller than I wanted them to be (we were going to slaughter in 1-2 weeks). I am wondering if it is worth trying to treat them or if we should just process them now. Can or...
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    Hello From Vermont

    I just got my first chickens just about 7 weeks ago, and I am loving it. They are so much fun. We have 5 pullets (not sure of breed yet), 9 Cornish Rock Crosses and 4 Colombian Rock Roosters and 2 Colombian Rock Hens. We were supposed to get 15 Cornish Rock Cross, but oops! I also have 3 kiddos...
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    Got my first meat birds!!! (PIC heavy!!!)

    My Great Dane got very attached to our chicks too!! They would chirp and she would run up to them, she would even get really nervous when the kids would hold them. Now that they are all outside she stands in the window and whines for them! She's our big Mama Hen!
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    Meat Chickens and Egg Layers

    I have 13 meat birds and 7 layers together and the only problem I have had is the hens picking and eating the tail feathers of the meat birds. The meaties had some fairly bad wounds by thier vents by the time I found out. Thanks to BYC I figured out what the problem was (protien deficeincy) and...
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    What's the best breed for me?

    I am looking for a good dual purpose breed with more of an eye towards meat production. Right now we have 9 Cornish Rock Crosses, 6 Colombian Rocks (2 hens 4 roosters) and 5 mixed pullets (we were supposed to have 15 Cornish Rocks and 5 pullets, but there was a mistake). We have had problems...
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    Can anyone ID these 6 week old birds?

    I am hoping someone can tell me what kind of chickens I have. This our first time with chickens and we bought them at TSC and we thought we were getting 15 cornish rocks. Nope we have 9 of those and 6 mystery birds. Anyway, we have 4 cockrels and 2 hens. Here is one of each: It's...
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