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    Safe cleaner to disinfect feeders/waterers with?

    Well, since Dawn is safe to wash birds covered in oil, and we have used it on our indoor animals food and water bowls for years, that is what we use. Obviously we have to rinse well, but it has worked well for us. Sadly to our wallets we discovered that vinegar or a bleach would rust water can
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    Just out of curiosity

    Lol, we leave a hanging food container for our girls in the run and they eat till full and then scratch and roll in dirt or sand and do other chicken activities
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    Hen's Leg Cocked to One Side

    I had a hen, Sweetie Pie who had a leg deformity that was so bad the other girls were quite cruel to her, so we put her in the “ travel run” we had and put a nesting box in it, a roof on it and raised it up on treated lumber( found out that one must use treated lumber when placing wood in...
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    Chicken trill noise?

    I guess that’s true but all my girls make that noise to me and my husband- but when they see me take their eggs- oh wow they go nuts!!!! Very different sound!
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    Very sad day :'(

    That is so sad, First the police MUST be notified due to the car attempting to hit a woman and child. The other reason is that when younger folks torture and maim/kill animals they usually become serial killers/rapists and murderers as adults and that is even more reason to involve the...
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    Polish

    How much space is there in the coop and in the run? The standard 3 ft per chicken we have found is complete bunk. Our first 6 girls - all Tetra tent from Tractor Supply same age etc got the biggest coop they had, 2 nesting boxes and roost and room underneath to “ run” ...... well suffice to say...
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    Brahma "yelling" when eating...

    Lol only thing I can say is my girls- not sure which ones now....( as Hannibal is gone ) make a racket right before they lay an egg..... with windows closed and tv on one can’t usually hear, BUT otherwise.....
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    Uses of two medicines

    Yep, so are you treating a “ bug” or something else? If it’s a cut/ raw area, I highly recommend Blue Kote- had a sweet girl, Phoebe, a Brahma, who was pecked by the other girls and had and area on her neck bout size of quarters where her trachea was visible, took her out of coop washed area...
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    chicken has balance issues and blue comb

    I have to agree - I’m sorry. I am also a hospice RN and one of the things the body does naturally as the dying process starts( and I hate this to sound so cold and “clinical” but this is written not speaking and not face to face) is to stop sendings blood to the “ non essential “ areas of the...
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    What is the best chicken

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    The case of the crippled chicken...

    It's heart breaking- we had a Rock who somehow had a mangled leg- she couldn't walk well and we quickly learned that the other chickens don't like "different " or " handicap" - so we took poor Gimpy- terrible name I know and put her in her own pen, complete with nesting box, roof, water hanging...
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    The case of the crippled chicken...

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    Peanut allergies passed thru eggs

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    What is the best chicken

    Oooh! Wow, you opened a can of meal worms( oh yes, pun intended!!!) the best kind of bird for raising.... you will get a lot of replies. For me, if I was to go after my dream and live off land far away from silly humans I'd pick Rocks- yep Plymouth Rocks- same chickens that came from Europe and...
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    What is the best chicken

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