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    Rat Wont Die!!!!!!!

    I'm still looking for the answer to a major rat problem which I am still fighting. 7 years ago the farmer behind me cleared his corn field and the rats moved into the barn. I started seeing blood on my cows ears and would notice that her feed box was totally clean so I fed and milked her, turned...
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    Rats, rats EVERYWHERE! ☹️

    And when your working you just notice them laying there. A bit eerie.
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    Rats, rats EVERYWHERE! ☹️

    Yes black rat snakes will digest small birds, a chick or two, mice, and maybe a kitten, which i have never seen but have seen them lay in wait along beam in the barn for rats and mice. The problem with rats, this spring a rat got in my brooder house and killed 200+ week old chicks in what seemed...
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    Rats, rats EVERYWHERE! ☹️

    The things I do for rats because since it's winter and the neighbor has now taken off his gmo corn guess where the rats are. I do three things the old Tom cat likes to catch anything that moves. I try to keep black rat snake and will accept any that I can get my mistake was one night as I was...
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    Raising Asian heritage hogs for meat

    I presently raise asian heritage hogs. I have raised them since 2018. Boy what an experience. Taste is fantastic and yes there can be a lot of lard, not fat. Humans are fat. But some other traits that need to be discussed. They usually will stay in confinement quite easily unless the ground is...
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    Raising Asian heritage hogs for meat

    I raise asian heritage hogs for meat and some for pets but do not push that. The present group pushing these pigs want them for pets and are trying to block butchering of them. Is there an organization supporting the asian heritage hog as a dual purpose bred. Please contact me for further...
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    Online Hatcheries?

    Having dealt with hoover because the chicks i got from tsc died they where good to me but seems the chicks a tsc are of a lower quality.
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    How Many PET Chickens Are In Your Flock?

    Relocated him at the river or in the river if he took my prize hens. I was loosing muscovy adults and ducklings, hens, roosters, rabbits, chicks due to coyotes, raccoon, opossum ( and i have seen them sneak under a setting guinea taking one or two eggs at a time until they all are gone. Then...
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    How Many PET Chickens Are In Your Flock?

    At the present time i have over 100 over 150 counting the muscoveys and the 7 turkeys. However until the holocaust I had over 300+. But a viscous field rat got into my brooder house and killed and stack stored 200 of my 2 week old chicks. Which where intended for my 25 breed breeding stock for...
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    New to backyard chickens, egg laying help

    I have been raising chicken, poultry for 53 years with only a few year inbetween when i didn't have them. Soft thin shells are becoming more of a common thing and panicing new poultry raisers since the colleges and universities are teaching more and more that young chickens shouldn't have...
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    Help! Can chickens die from poultry lice!!!!!

    I have found that if you use diatomasious earth and pout olive oil over the most heavily areas from a squirt bottle that the oil smothers the lice and the diatomasious earth kills a lot at least enough to give my ladies some releaf. If i can't win the battle with these organic solders i them...
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    Sand in the run, should it be compacted or left loose?

    I can hear the dissention now but hear me out first. One place i get my sand is from the borough located north of me every spring they sweep the streets and then deposit a sand and grit size river gravel to an area near my hen house. I get about 50 tons yes tons of sand and river gravel pea size...
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    Devastated... Lost 7 of 13 chicks last night.

    Not my cows though, they taste like molasses. Ha ha
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    Devastated... Lost 7 of 13 chicks last night.

    The body of both humans and animals gives off certain chemicals and their compounds. I have seem pigs eat chicken manure, chickens eat cow and horse manure. Dog eat and lay in all types of manure and dead things. And honey bees drawing moisture from manure pile runoff. Even butterflies will be...
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    Devastated... Lost 7 of 13 chicks last night.

    I am 69 this month. Not that i liked the idea for more than 2 reasons. 1. It's gross to think about the dog wearing the bird that was one of my best hens. And 2. When its over i had to take the bag off the dog give him a bath and tell him i still loved him. However i didn't have to shoot a...
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