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    Curly, Larry and MOE

    Our first time raising geese caught us off line a tad. Curly became different with her eyes not opening fully and her bill, legs and feet pale and cool to the touch. We could not find anyone that could give us a clue what to do for her. She passed away. Larry and Moe are still just fine. Any...
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    Hens eating baby chicks

    Bought six chicks from our local farm store today. After supper we went out to set up the heat lamp. Now only five baby chicks. No evidence of foul play. Any chance one of our hens ate the missing baby chick???
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    broken eggs in nesting boxes

    Sounds to me like you have a fussy house cleaning hen. LOL
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    broken eggs in nesting boxes

    Our chickens are also without feathers in all types of places on their bodies. Blue Coat is being used. This chicken business is getting to be more trouble than it is worth. Our rooster Big Bad John was found yesterday morning without his head.
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    broken eggs in nesting boxes

    Three of our hens have gone broody. We only have 11 hens. Now I am starting to find eggs in the nest without shells. Is it a bad idea to feed the chickens egg shells we save?
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    Sparrows!!!!!!

    Thank you for all the post. We hung strips of plastic feed sacks on the poop door. For a month it worked and I almost forgot the excitement of having a small flock of sparrows fly at my head when I go in the people door. Funny how we give space to potentially dangerous species. The sparrows...
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    Goats and chickens together?

    We transported our two pygmy goats in a medium size dog cage in the back of our pick-up. Our dairy goat filled it so we only did one that time.. Bottom is slippery so we put old piece of carpet scrap on the bottom. Bungeed cage so it would not slip in bed of truck. Worked good.
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    Does Blue Coat Work?

    As soon as we had time to just enjoy watching our flock play around, we noticed without a doubt the pecker. She was introduced to the noodle pot and went down just fine. RESULTS - finally after several months our rooster "Big Bad John" grew his fabulous iridescent blue/green tail feathers...
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    Ended Official BYC-Mini Contest - Post a pic of your chickens with your other

    OB1 checking out the chicken coop. Big Bad John our rooster is keeping his eye on her
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    Ended Official BYC-Mini Contest - Post a pic of your chickens with your other

    Prancer our Border Collie mix herds the chickens to the coop
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    Murry McMurray, Delawares, and meat bird quality

    We are going into our second winter raising chickens. Yesterday (early morning) when I went to the coop our black/grey Bahama was in a ball near the people door. I reached down and picked her up without any struggle. I kept her snuggled close while I finished chores. Put her in the coop to go...
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    Sponsored Post A Professional What? A day in the life of a poultry pro

    Our first year of chicken raising was great. We didn't lose even one chick. Once the girls were old enough for the coop we lost one to a neighbor dog, one to an accident, one in the night that lost it's head. This is our second year and we lost 50% of our chicks. We pulled everything out of...
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    Egg hatching the natural way

    Twice now we have broody hens sitting on a stack of eggs. Neither nest produced any chicks. Could our rooster be sterile? This little egg struck us as funny.
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    Disappointed...eggs not hatching.

    We have a variety of hens. One of our Buff's went broody on about a dozen eggs. One morning we went to the coop to find her off the nest and all the eggs were cold to the touch. The temperature had dropped through the night. We brought the eggs inside and honey opened all the them. One was...
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    large areas of missing feathers on chickens back

    We love our chickens. Some have names even. We have been dealing with them plucking feathers off each other. We have actually seen them do it. We tried giving them pork meal with their food. The coop is twice the size suggested for our number of hens. They have a paddock to use on a daily...
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