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    Cornish cross won’t move with tractor

    Hey y’all! This is my first year with meat birds. We decided to go with 30 Cornish cross. We had one die randomly at a couple weeks old. Another stopped walking at 5 weeks and then got attacked by a raccoon who reached under the tractor. Another (the smallest of the batch) was sickly and also...
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    Is my egg amount normal?

    I feel like 10 is very low. They lay all day long, they’re often not done until 4pm. Some days I go in at 4 and there are still chickens laying eggs. So keeping them in the coop would be a little hard. I’ve scoured my yard, there are no hidden nests, we’ve been dealing with these fluctuations...
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    Can I just sneak chicks under broody hen?

    I might put fake eggs under her!
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    Can I just sneak chicks under broody hen?

    I have a broody hen. I don’t want any more barnyard mix chicks. I would like to buy some specific breeds. Is it possible to take out the eggs and just put chicks under her?? She started sitting on eggs today. Should I wait a few weeks and then sneak them under?
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    Is my egg amount normal?

    I have 21 laying hens. Ages range from 6 months to 2 years old. All sorts of breeds, RIR, cinnamon queen, Easter egger, olive egger, Welsummer, ameraucana, marans, Orpington, austrolorp, Wyandotte. A good mix of breeds. They are free range from 6am-7pm. Fed kalmbach 17% nongmo feed with some...
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    Knife Recommendations?

    I need a good knife recommendation for processing, breaking down & deboning. I've heard good things about Victorinox and Dexter brands. Any experience with those? Should I go for a flexible knife? Semi-stiff? What about culling? Last time we tried to cut the artery the knife wasn't sharp enough...
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    Starlings & Sparrows invading coop and feed

    Having what feels like a longer and colder than usual winter here. Second winter with chickens. We are dealing with an overwhelm of wild birds. We keep all chicken feed outside of the coop but we noticed hundreds of wild birds (sparrows, starlings, cardinals, and bluejays) swarming the feed. In...
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    Depluming mites? Pecking?

    I have a flock of 19 hens, 2 roosters, and 6 12 week old chicks. Noticed some missing back feathers about a month ago on 2 of my hens. I figured they were being overbred. I ordered saddles and left it alone. Now about 7-8 hens have the same loss of feathers in their back. There are feathers all...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Can anyone tell me what number this marans egg would be? Super excited about our first few marans eggs!
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    How to protect broody hen & babies from flock

    I have a first time broody hen, this is our first experience with allowing a hen to hatch eggs. Eggs are hatching and babies are here. Do I need to protect them at all from the flock? They’re up in the nesting box, other hens are still trying to lay in the nest that she’s been in. I’m guessing...
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    Free Range Hens Not Laying In Coop

    So I actually fixed the problem without having to lock them up at all. I tried locking them up but they just stopped laying until I let them back out and they ran to the porch to lay again. What worked for me was to keep my main coop door shut 24/7. I only opened the side door, that you can see...
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    Roundworms

    Found roundworms today in poop. Free range chickens. How do I treat them? How long do the eggs live in soil? I have 2 cats and a dog as well. My dog is constantly trying to eat their poop. My kids play outside. Who do you treat? Everyone? Us? I’m defeated. We had lice, treated with elector, then...
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    Comment by 'CedarRanch' in article 'Stop Chicken Chasing Dogs While Using an Electric Collar in a Fair Way'

    Can anyone help me with this? After my dog killed one of my chickens I was told to put a shock collar on her and the shock her the next time she went near them. Even on the lowest setting it scared the crud out of her and now she is tense anytime she sees the remote in my hand. I tried doing...
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    Free Range Chickens and Lice- Can You Prevent It?

    Hi everyone, we have a flock of free range chickens. This is the second time we have gotten lice. I treat them and the coop with elector psp. I burned all the bedding and I really soaked the coop in elector and then covered in permithirin powder. The lice were completely gone for months. And now...
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    Free Range Hens Not Laying In Coop

    I have a flock of chickens with about 10 hens laying eggs currently. Out of those there were 3 older hens who always laid eggs in the nesting box. Now as more and more hens are laying, they all fight over the one corner of the box. I guess some of them got tired of it and decided to find new...
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