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    1 wk old kitten emergency

    We just found a mama cat and a litter of 5 kittens living in a shed on our property. I moved them into our house and they are now living in a cardboard box in our bathroom. The kittens appear to be one week or so old. One of the kittens has what looks like pink eye, yellow discharge and crust...
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    Chicken owner performance anxiety

    Thank you all for the moral support! It looks like mini-tractors may be the best way to get some grass time in. Keri, awesome run! Now I can give DH something to aspire to with his coop construction plans . That is like the Sangri-la of chicken runs, and it looks bomb prof too with the...
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    Chicken owner performance anxiety

    Last fall our beautiful flock of 12 chickens was massacred in a matter of days. We were down to 3 hens, who we re-homed to a woman with a pred-proof setup. Anyway, the story goes that we were pred-free for 4 months, the coons then discovered our flock, and they dug under wire, through brick...
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    Electric netting sources

    I want to buy some of the movable electric netting that free-range operations often use to corral their birds. Does anyone have a good source for the netting? I looked online and feel that the first couple hits from google were wildly more expensive than what I thought it would be. I mean, if it...
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    Exterminating coyotes?-scary story

    I just checked out the anatolian rescue and there are two available near me. The thing will be convincing DH. He just got us a puppy for Christmas (a feist) and that dicision was tough enough. He feels that having multiple dogs is one step away from hoarding animals (don't ask) and he doesn't...
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    Why not chop their heads off?

    We are preparing for meat birds in the spring and thinking about our processing ability. When I was growing up, my grandmother would just chop the chickens' heads off on a block and go from there. Now it seems using a kill cone and slitting their throats is the most popular method of slaughter...
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    HELP- How do I save these dumped roosters?

    Today on my way home from town I was rerouted down a dirt road to avoid an accident. While traveling down this dirt road, I came upon a guy dumping a cardboard box of something out of the trunk of his car. When I got close enough I realized that the box contained 6 or 7 roosters! I shouted some...
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    Exterminating coyotes?-scary story

    Last night around midnight I woke up to the sounds of excited coyote communication. We often hear the yips, barks and snarls of coyote packs successfully ripping apart some poor little animal up and down the valley where we live, but never up on our hill that overlooks the valley. They packs...
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    Unique Culinary Meat Breeds

    I am looking to raise some foo-foo, culinary meat birds (think Poulet de Bresse) and was wondering if anyone has any interesting suggestions for breeds. We are going to try the black chickens (gasp...sorry silkie lovers ), but I do not know of any other unique culinary breeds available in the...
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    Poulet de Bresse

    Does anyone know of any hatcheries in the US selling Poulet de Bresse, the French blue-footed chicken? I know that there is an American version, simply called the blue foot chicken, but I was hoping to track down some of the real Poulet de Bresse for culinary reasons.
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    I won- for now

    I lured the chicks back to the coop and have had two nights no losses! Plus, the coon tried to dig in last night and was stopped by my triple-layer brick, wire, stone barracade. It pulled some of the brick out, hit the wire held down by massive stones and turned back. I guess when the meal isn't...
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    What's the weirdest thing your chickens like to eat?

    PB&J sandwiches
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    Coop Avoidance and parental guilt

    No losses last night, thank goodness! Mostly because (in my opinion) the little coon SOB found the catfood bin on the porch and ate so much that he could barely run away when I went out there at 3:30. Maybe I have been taking the wrong approach to preds. I have been wanting to KILL them, maybe I...
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    4-6 guineas and peachick are sleeping outside.

    Sending guinea and peachick prayers your way. I completely understand the fear. I lost my roo to an attack in the coop last week and every night since at least one hen roosted in a tree and never was heard from again. Last night, none of the chickens would go back in and all were super high up...
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    Coop Avoidance and parental guilt

    We have lost 5 chickens in the past 2 weeks to what we believe to be a raccoon. The first chicken was taken from the coop by a coon that dug in. The others were taken when they refused to roost in the coop following the murder. They went more than 30 ft up into an adjacent tree and we couldn't...
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