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    Beat up meat bird

    I was thinking that I would keep her/him separate until they are butchered if it makes it. We are not trying to extend their life at all. I would have preferred to have them finished a couple weeks ago but they just are not growing fast. We have weighed them and postponed twice.
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    Beat up meat bird

    Thank you! They seem to be a slower growing breed. I had to postpone our butcher date because they were not quite 5 lbs. I was surprised as I had expected them to finish much more quickly. This is our first time and we are keeping their food full. This one is definitely much smaller than the...
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    Beat up meat bird

    Hi there! One of my poor meat birds really took a beating from his fellow chickens. I rescued her from the tractor and have him on my porch. Her head is very pecked up and I put some blu-kote on it. I have her drinking and eating, which is a good sign but I think she is probably in shock. I...
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    Injured/Pecked young hen

    Hi there. I have 4 RIR chickens that are over a year old and I also have 4 Golden Comet chickens about 4 months old. They have all been integrated into the coop and are doing well together. The RIR's seem to try and be dominant and will chase the Comets a little but haven't attacked them...
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    Sponsored Post How to: Introduce new birds to your flock

    Thank you for this! I just came to this site looking for this information. :) We have 5 Golden Comet chicks that are about 5 weeks old and we will want to put them with our year old RIRs. Today I gave the chicks some outside time in an old dog kennel and the RIR's were pretty vocal about it...
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    Lice

    I didn't see anything crawling on them and we individually picked up and dusted each one of them (there are 10). They just look rather "plucked" on the fronts. At first I thought maybe it was just that one had been picked on by the others but then others started to have the same problem. They...
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    Lice

    I am not sure if they have the same thing or different. From what I am reading it seems that my goats (and my dog previously) had burrowing mites. I did use some of their hay/straw from the barn in the chicken coop over the winter and am wondering if I inadvertently brought some to the...
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    Lice

    Hi there - I came to ask a similar question. We bought our farm about 2 years ago so I have no idea what could be "leftover" from the previous owners. We had a terrible flea infestation in the house. Goodness knows what is in the barn. Anyway, we had a Great Pyrenees who developed a bald...
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    Hi there!

    Hi there. I am not sure if I ever did an intro on here or not. I have been reading the community for a while. We moved into a new house (new state) over the summer and we bought a small farm with about 6 acres. After many years in a development, I was thrilled to be able to do a little...
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    New in NE Mass

    Hi there! We are moving to Massachusetts in just under 2 weeks, near the Nashua NH border. We are very excited about the move and are going to be moving to a little farm where I can finally begin raising some chickens. I have been wanting to do it for years but our neighborhood here in PA is...
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