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    Handsome Blue Splash Ameraucana Roo

    :lol: You are so right. I just love how he looks, love the beard. I've been calling him 'Santa' Someone is coming by to check him out tomorrow :fl hopefully he has a new home!
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    Handsome Blue Splash Ameraucana Roo

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    5 month old EEs - pullets or cockerels?

    Interesting! Thanks everyone. I didn't know having a big roo changes how the others behave but that makes sense. These guys both act submissive, are so much smaller in stature and don't crow. Someone who just lost their beloved roo came and picked up my big boy and the black one. It will be...
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    5 month old EEs - pullets or cockerels?

    I really have assumed these guys were both pullets from early on because even though their combs were a little redder they were the same size as the other pullets and I had one cockerel that was so much larger and distinctively roo like from early on. Now it looks like they are getting pointy...
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    Duck's Foot was Eaten Off

    Families of wild mallards have been on the pond the last few years so I figured it was a safe place for ducks, I guess not! :( The duck is still alive but I'm not sure it's better off alive or dead. Maybe it could live out it's days as a gimpy duck in my chicken run once the foot heals up...
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    Duck's Foot was Eaten Off

    Thanks for the advice! Darn predators are so tough. I'm sure it's a matter of time before the snapper gets my other ducks
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    Duck's Foot was Eaten Off

    Yikes! I see painted turtles in the pond all the time, haven't seen a snapper but I bet you're right
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    Duck's Foot was Eaten Off

    One of my Khaki Campbell Ducks was swimming in my natural pond when a mystery critter attacked. The duck started quacking loudly and you could tell it was trying to swim away but couldn't, we took a rake to pull it in and whatever had it 'released' and the duck was able to swim to shore...
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    Eastern Canadian winters

    I live in New England so climate is not all that warmer than the Maritines - last year was my first winter and I was surprised how well my chickens did without heat. Do you have cold hardy breeds? My key learning was that ventilation is more important than insulation. At first I had wrapped...
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    My hen is a molting hormonal nightmare

    My favorite hen, a Buff Orpington named 'Ms Marigold' went broody in late July. I gave her a set of day old (tractor supply) chicks to adopt August 21st and she's been a great mother - but of course very defensive of her babies. I noticed a couple weeks ago that she looked like she was molting...
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    7 of my 10 chickens died in an attack while free-ranging today

    Mystery solved - it was a fox. Saw the fox come back around looking for more yesterday afternoon, circling the coop!
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    7 of my 10 chickens died in an attack while free-ranging today

    Bobcat shot on my camera from this winter .... could have been this cat I suppose!
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    7 of my 10 chickens died in an attack while free-ranging today

    Very sorry. It is tough, you just expect to see them running when you open the door or hear them clucking in the morning and it's tough when it seems so quiet all the sudden...
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    7 of my 10 chickens died in an attack while free-ranging today

    Ahhhh! That's terrible. Puts it all in perspective.
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    7 of my 10 chickens died in an attack while free-ranging today

    Very sorry! It's hard to lose so many at once
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