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    Week Old Black Copper Marans Chicks - Sexing by Feather color? Pictures added!

    We lost #1 to a bear when he (?) was 7.5 weeks old (and much bigger than the others, all black & white and most assertive). The others who developed a lot of copper in their neck feathers are now 9 weeks old - number 2 with the thicker legs and more feathers on her (?) legs has now grown to be...
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    Tricide Neo for Bumblefoot- Still recommended?

    Long overdue update (from post number 58). The young hen with the really bad looking foot I thought I'd broken did heal fairly quickly. Trooper laid all through the winter even when molting in February (!) but is slowing down now. No more bumblefoot, though after the past week of rain I need...
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    Week Old Black Copper Marans Chicks - Sexing by Feather color? Pictures added!

    Thanks - though we could have sworn the little one was a female! What do you need for photos? I'll try to get some better ones.
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    Week Old Black Copper Marans Chicks - Sexing by Feather color? Pictures added!

    Hi all, I joined a while ago but haven't posted much. We started our flock with 3 older hens and a pullet from a nearby egg farm, we lost the top hen to a bobcat but got 2 more pullets (5 months old) from someone who was moving. Just bought 3 little French BCM chicks, a week old now. Hoping...
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    Tricide Neo for Bumblefoot- Still recommended?

    Just cleaning every day or every other day and putting antibiotic cream on seemed to work for a couple of weeks but then one hen got it back the beginning of July, again treated for a week - 10 days and seemed OK but then 10 days later it was back again and the other hen that had been good for a...
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    Tricide Neo for Bumblefoot- Still recommended?

    rogue - so how long did you soak in the Tricide Neo? Looking for that now that I spent $38 on Vetericyn today. 2 hens with bumblefoot on both feet - I hadn't even seen them limping! Soaked in Epsom salts, pulled scabs (not very big/hard) off with forceps and wrapped with Vetericyn but I am...
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    Digging underground for predator protection

    Can't the racoons reach through the chain link (not to mention smaller predators being able to slip right through)?
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    Digging underground for predator protection

    I just stopped at the feed store looking for hardware cloth and they said they all use chicken wire with no problems. One guy said he had a raccoon get into the coop, but that was because he had a gap where he had stapled the wire on. And they had a 5ft x50ft roll for $50 - I haven't seen...
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    Preventing digging under chicken run - tractor coop

    But what about hawks?
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    Hardware cloth... 1/2" mesh

    How's this? I really wanted 5ft cloth/wire so I could lay it down and build a run the width the of coop over it, but 4ft is all I could find. I also have 4ft tall 2x4 coated wire mesh (50ft) I was planning on - I guess that's too large? Local 4-H told me it would be OK for run as long as hens...
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    Digging underground for predator protection

    I've got to build a run attached to a coop we bought from a neighbor. He had the whole coop enclosed in a dog run type thing until snow collapsed the "roof" of the run. I was thinking of putting wire "floor" in the run since my uncle said something would dig under but we want to make the run...
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