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    Is This Lice?

    Yes great stuff. Chickens need to dust bath to control lice and mites. When it’s raining there needs to be a dry place for them to dust bath. I put Pestene in the dust holes. Ag Lime in the dust holes, beds and nests regularly. lice and mites die in dust.
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    Egg laying cockrel?!

    Perhaps the egg was under the nesting material and he’s unearthed it. I’ve occasionally found and old egg when I’m cleaning nests.
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    Biggest Incubation Mistakes

    I’ve hatched hundreds of chicks in incubators just use normal tap water.
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    Is this lice?

    If you prefer not to eat the eggs during this time put them in the blender whole and then make omletes or scrambled eggs to feed yo your girls.
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    Is this lice?

    Yes those are lice nests. Put Vaseline on them and suffocate them. Cut away any you can. power to whole chicken with Pestene.
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    Is This Lice?

    Not for long anyway 😅
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    Is This Lice?

    Check them around their vent. No lice or lice nests 👍🏻 bingo all good!
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    Moving Duck Eggs from Incubator to Newly Broody Hen

    Yes lots of times! Yes easy! Do it at night! She will have no idea the eggs are different. She’ll come off the brood when they start to hatch.
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    Incubation vs buying baby chicks

    Buy a fully automatic incubator and keep it in your laundry. If you buy chicks you need a brooder anyway. So buy a new design Brinsea brooder ( the chick go under it) and a big cheap clear plastic storage bin with a lid. mall perfect for raising chicks. plymouth rocks are easy to sell. so if...
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    indoor pet rooster problem

    Please sell them to someone so they can live a more natural life. This one looks like a rooster so the one he can not stand is no doubt also a rooster. Chickens love to scratch the ground and have dust baths and eat bugs and grass. It’s cruel to keep them indoors.
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    Can I switch from Layer feed to Flock Raiser Feed?

    Layer pellets have too much calcium for chickens who aren’t laying. Especially if they are young.
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    "free range"--let's get rid of this nonsense term

    Absolutely agree, I don’t have to buy eggs as I keep chickens. They adore to get out of their spacious pens and runs to explore. They do not go more than about 100 feet from their homes. They could go for miles. They love scratching the ground, having dirt baths, pecking grasses, searching for...
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    "free range"--let's get rid of this nonsense term

    Yes maybe, the commercialisation of the term annoys you, but domestic chickens do not go far from their home. We have acreage here and my chickens could go for miles but they don’t. They stay within about 100 feet of their home. They love to get out of their pens. They’re waiting to get out in...
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    Please Help! Raccoon Problem!!! Click Here!!!!!!!!

    We have lots of introduced foxes in Australia. They’ll happily dig into a chicken pen so most of our pens have concrete footings or as I have plenty of space I used the cheaper option of wide chicken netting spread on the ground along outside the pen. It’s tied to the pen with wire. The fox...
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    Coop clean out

    Your hens are very fortunate to have their poop cleans out daily. I have a deep litter system too, I take out the poop every week or two for my compost. I wait until until I can smell ammonia before doing a complete clean out. (about twice a year) or if I see any red mites, usually late winter...
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