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    The right gun placement to quickly kill a rooster?

    It’s always striking how many emotions come wrapped up in it. There’s never a right moment, never a perfect set of conditions. I always tell people the same thing: don’t do it alone. Having more hands makes the process steadier, faster, and far more controlled—especially if there’s even the...
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    Open Contest Some Poultry Are Red, Some Are Blue, But Let's Not Forget, They Can Be Barred Too!

    Funny- my crested cream legbars are: willow and hazel. If we find another tree name and another bird.... we have a forest!
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    Open Contest Some Poultry Are Red, Some Are Blue, But Let's Not Forget, They Can Be Barred Too!

    Entry 2: Another goodie of Captain- Wheaten olive egger. That is his favorite tree- and he now my protector from a mean as he** white leghorn HEN who has it out for me. He loves flirting with guests and soaking up attention. He definitely covers the color bases, but I’d place him firmly in...
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    Hermit Crabs- Mean mothers... maybe someone has some ideas?

    So as long as they free-range (which is a giant fenced area- with trees, bushes, multiple feeding stations, etc) then the hermit crabs stay at bay. It is when they are confined (to anyone who will look this up later). (there are chicks in that photo, and a giant tortoise- lol). Main is an...
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    Hermit Crabs- Mean mothers... maybe someone has some ideas?

    I’m honestly not even sure what those are. I work pretty much nonstop running a rescue and providing veterinary care through a nonprofit, so if this involves keeping a daily journal or logging content consistently… I can’t compete with that. Everyone thinks the Caribbean is pure paradise, but...
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    Hermit Crabs- Mean mothers... maybe someone has some ideas?

    It was a full-on group mission, but as of today the hermit crab population is down a respectable 70-ish percent. I snapped a photo before walking over there, because once they see you, they scatter in slow-motion panic like they’ve been tipped off. I’m calling this a win. Meanwhile, the...
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    Hermit Crabs- Mean mothers... maybe someone has some ideas?

    Not crazy at all. Trust me—when we first moved here I was that person: “Hubby!! There are hermit crabs!! They’re SO CUTE! Look at this one—he’s the size of a baseball! Do you realize what this guy would be worth in the States with its conch shell?!” Fast-forward to getting chickens, and now...
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    Hermit Crabs- Mean mothers... maybe someone has some ideas?

    They’re obsessed with the concrete — they actually climb it and chip pieces off. Even though the feeder is hung, the chickens are so messy that feed still ends up on the ground. I’m thinking a base of very fine hardware cloth might help, but shipping is the real challenge. I checked today, and a...
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    Hermit Crabs- Mean mothers... maybe someone has some ideas?

    We tried that- we also put hardware cloth 6 inches deep (cant go further as we only have victory bedrock. The live underground- and somehow they just brorrow under and come up... I dont understand because a pick-axe cant get through the ground- but these find a way. At this point- no one...
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    Hermit Crabs- Mean mothers... maybe someone has some ideas?

    This may seem nuts, but.... I have a main coop with its attached run (in the 'my coop' link below my username), and then there’s the larger free-range enclosure (roughly 50x40 feet+). Inside that bigger space is a smaller (prefab), separate coop/run that I use for the youngest birds — the...
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    Please help me with this aggressive hen- I cant take much more.

    Is it possible that once the roosters get larger they put her in check? It just seemed to come out of nowhere- well, maybe not no where as it was around the time she also decided to sleep in a tree instead of the coop with the other remaining chicken.
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    Please help me with this aggressive hen- I cant take much more.

    She is not nest siting- she makes her deposit in the nest box- around 9am, then continues about her day. I get attacked just doing 'around' tasks... doing random things- sometimes even 100 yards away form where she laid.
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    Please help me with this aggressive hen- I cant take much more.

    That’s exactly the answer I was bracing myself for — even if I wasn’t quite ready to admit it. My husband’s take on the situation (and this is the gentle version) is: “Well… Roo gives us eggs and she never goes after me. She probably just misses you — she waits by the front door and likes...
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    Please help me with this aggressive hen- I cant take much more.

    Yes was from the first batch of eggs I hatched- yes. The eggs flew 3,500 miles, and I hatched them in my incubator. We had dogs kill. We had humans steal. so at the end of the year: only two remained, Roo and Gyspy chick. Captain is the rooster on the left, Ouzo in the middle (that was...
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    Please help me with this aggressive hen- I cant take much more.

    I have a just-over-one-year-old laying hen who has recently developed sudden, intense aggression toward me specifically. This isn’t light pecking — it’s full defensive posture (feathers fluffed, wings out, vocalizing, charging) and she has drawn blood multiple times. She (leghorn) lays...
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