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    Separating Free Range Chickens

    I have Splash, Black and Blue Copper French Marans. They are all on about 6 acres and have free-ranged since they were old enough to come out of the brooder. I would like to incubate just the black Copper and I have put 3 layers and a rooster in a separate coop that is about 3'X6'X6', with a...
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    Meat chicken died before we could butcher, okay to eat?

    I know why the duck died.
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    Sick or Just Slow?

    I received 6 BCM may 29thish that I was told were just hatched the day before, along with a mix of BCM, Blue Marans and one Splash that I was told were all a couple weeks old. 3 of the little ones have hardly grown at all and still look like baby chics. The other 3 are hard to tell apart from...
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    Predator proofing. I don't get it. Help me out.

    Be aware that you will probably not "see" raccoons. I have never "seen" a raccoon around my house either but I have a feeder and a game camera set up 100 yards. from the house and have literally thousands of pictures of raccoons, up to 10 in one pic. After the last rain I noticed coon tracks...
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