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    Help! Chicken with red tummy / swollen abdomen

    my RR has a tummy that is red and warm, she frequently has soft shell eggs. she has had a bit of white butt I think is yeast so I was giving her some crushed up metronidazole pills I had left over and she got tremendously better and even started laying harder eggs but I think I stopped too short...
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    MY CHICKENS ARE GONE TONIGHT!

    Thank you Perchie.girl. My run is bullet proof, so I have no worries now that I don't let the others out.I have plans to make a much much bigger run this summer, since I can't let them out anymore. Right not it is 6X9 entirely enclosed in 1/2" hardware cloth, and 1 foot deep underground and 2...
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    Review by '' on item 'Marans'

    I have had a cuckoo and a blue copper maran. They were both the sweetest birds I have ever had. They both looked for me and ran to me wanting to be held or pet and neck snuggle with me. THey are very easy in the flock and had no problems with getting along at all. Not an aggressive bone in the...
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    MY CHICKENS ARE GONE TONIGHT!

    Betty is the black cuckoo maran & Phoenix is the red EE. I searched the ravine until 3:30 am and can in exhausted. I found an area of Betty's down this morning in the light an a football field away one of her regular feathers. These are the first of her feathers I've ever gotten, she never sheds...
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    MY CHICKENS ARE GONE TONIGHT!

    Thank you, that makes very sad sense. I am so heart heavy. If they don't come home in the morning I just want to know what took them. I pray whatever did, was fast and didn't take them far and make them suffer long. I loved them so much :(One in particular was the best pet I've had in 50 years...
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    MY CHICKENS ARE GONE TONIGHT!

    If they are hiding do they sometimes hide for days or do they typically try to come back in the morning?
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    MY CHICKENS ARE GONE TONIGHT!

    I have ALOT of barn owls, can they pick up and go away with a large chicken? I understand the littler one but the large one is my biggest, she is quite heavy
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    MY CHICKENS ARE GONE TONIGHT!

    OMG that is a nightmare, this will be a night of NO sleep, I want them in their little safe house so desperately. I love my chickies. I will never let them out again :(
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    MY CHICKENS ARE GONE TONIGHT!

    Thank you, I hope so much so, I nearly fell down my ravine searching the brush with my flashlight twice now. I will wait for sun-up and hope they wake up early and come home, I just feel sick to my stomache.
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    MY CHICKENS ARE GONE TONIGHT!

    We don't have fox here, please spare me the graphic details at this moment, like I said in the start, my girls have been gone just 3 hours and I am deeply panicked, that kind of salt stings badly and is not necessary.
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    MY CHICKENS ARE GONE TONIGHT!

    so a cayote would leave a mess for sure?
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    MY CHICKENS ARE GONE TONIGHT!

    they are 1 yr old, one is large the other is medium, my husband let them out at 3, may backyard is open into a 200 acre greenbelt, we do have cayotes but the girls go to their coop before dark and we lock them in about 530, 2 were in there, one was not she was frozen on the other side of the...
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    MY CHICKENS ARE GONE TONIGHT!

    If a cayote grabbed them would there be feathers
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    MY CHICKENS ARE GONE TONIGHT!

    2 of my 5 chickens disappeared tonight without a trace sometime between 3-5:30 sundown. I am in sheer panic!!! What would take them with no feathers or blood anywhere???? Wouldn't there be something????? Would they hide while I look for them with a flashlight and call them for an hour????
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    Source for US made dried mealworms?

    http://www.americancricketranch.com/index.html is another source for fresh mealworms, waxworms, and cricket (which mine like to chase inside their run) grown here on a cricket ranch down the road from me in Southern California.
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