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    Comment by 'ChickensRsmart' in article '11 Accidental Ways To Die (For Your Chickens)'

    I looked for videos of raccoons breaking through chicken wire and I couldn't find any. There are videos showing the aftermath of raccoons breaking into chicken coops (with big holes in chicken wire). But there's no videos of them actually breaking the wire. In probably every case, the chicken...
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    Comment by 'ChickensRsmart' in article '11 Accidental Ways To Die (For Your Chickens)'

    Honestly, I don't think it's luck. I've yet to see a video of a raccoon tearing chicken wire open... And they don't like biting steel wire - even if it is thin wire. I think a badger too (more powerful than a raccoon) would simply prefer to dig under - rather than trying to charge through...
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    Comment by 'ChickensRsmart' in article '11 Accidental Ways To Die (For Your Chickens)'

    I've never had a raccoon or a fox or a coyote (no bobcats or mountain lions either) try to break chicken wire...not even once in over a decade. Raccoons will look however, for places where the wire is not secured...and they will try to squeeze through... It's as wild as it gets (just about)...
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    Comment by 'ChickensRsmart' in article '11 Accidental Ways To Die (For Your Chickens)'

    I've never lost a bird to predators while relying on regular poultry netting...or chicken wire (for more than 10 years now). Their run is surrounded on all four sides (and the ceiling) with chicken wire. Of course, the perimeter of their run (16' x 24') contains buried 1/2" by 1" galvanized...
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    Comment by 'ChickensRsmart' in article 'Egg Production and How to Get the Most from your Laying Hens'

    Interesting. It suggests that egg laying is in no small part about what's going on "between the hen's ears"...as in how relaxed they feel? More telling still will be whether or not these hens die 6 times faster (due to liver failure).
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    Comment by 'ChickensRsmart' in article 'Egg Production and How to Get the Most from your Laying Hens'

    I haven't had any issues (1 rooster among 3 layer hens). Getting the right layer feed (mRNA free from a brand you can trust) is a more critical issue. Otherwise, I think the hens benefit from having a rooster around...chicken families.
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    Comment by 'ChickensRsmart' in article 'Egg Production and How to Get the Most from your Laying Hens'

    Many well cared for hens aren't laying because of what they're eating. Beware of mRNA tainted commercial poultry feeds...and Chinese meal worms. Hint: They're not going to list it in the ingredients. It's time to WAKE UP...
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    Comment by 'ChickensRsmart' in article 'Can Chickens Eat Grass?'

    That's great. I might have to try the super worms now...for my birds...not for me. Live food (that's not grown using human feces) is probably better than dried soldier fly larvae. Beware of meal worms. I don't know of any that aren't grown in China...and the distributors are not printing...
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    Comment by 'ChickensRsmart' in article 'Can Chickens Eat Grass?'

    Thanks. Do the Chinese also grow super worms using human feces as food for the worms? I stopped buying chinese meal worms after they gave my chickens weird infections...and the worms smelled bad. I now use black soldier fly larvae (mRNA Free and grown in the USA...using food scraps as food...
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    Comment by 'ChickensRsmart' in article 'Can Chickens Eat Grass?'

    What are...superworms?
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    Comment by 'ChickensRsmart' in article 'Can Chickens Eat Grass?'

    I feed my chickens a little bit of fresh grass every day...I cut it up into 'impacted crop free' bite sizes. They get plenty of insects in their run...and I feed them mRNA free black soldier fly larvae (and not the Chinese grown meal worms...they use human feces as food for meal worms).
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    Bantam Hen thinks she's a Rooster?

    Thanks again. I will keep an eye on her feathers - assuming you mean her tail feathers. She's definitely got some respiratory issue (which I think most of them will also infect their reproductive systems)...and she will lay an egg every 2 or 3 days - not every day. But then again, when I...
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    Bantam Hen thinks she's a Rooster?

    Thanks nuthatched. She the only hen I've ever had that crows/crowed. She doesn't have her own rooster, but there's a rooster right next to her (other side of the poultry netting). When you say a reproduction issue, does that potentially include an infection that can impact the reproductive tract?
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    Bantam Hen thinks she's a Rooster?

    Sometimes I think she's also trying to be a Turkey. Is there something wrong with her? She's laying eggs 2 or 3 a week and I think she's dealing with a low-grade wet pox infection...she's got some black spots on her comb too and they've been there for at least a year...although some of them...
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    Bantam hen still lonely?

    The more I think about it, I've realized that I can't compare my bantam rooster to my bantam hens. The hens have a much larger vocabulary - they have a sound that clearly expresses every emotion. But my rooster talks back to me! Every time I greet him (calling his name), he says - OOOOOooooh...
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