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    Overcrowding problem or not?

    Thank you everyone for your responses. Lots of food for thought and ideas to pursue. Humidity control: check. RH inside/outside coop: check. Draft free ventilation: check. Boredom busters Inside and out: check. Pondering peoples’ replies, it came to me to make a sturdy three sided wind block...
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    Overcrowding problem or not?

    I’ve a flock of 15 various hens and 2 roosters from merging two flocks. The first part of the flock started year ago August with eight female chicks. With adult supervision I built a coop with 62 square feet of floor space, 5 nesting boxes, 6 windows, and a total of 16 linear feet roosting...
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    Official BYC Poll: How do you name your pet chickens?

    I just watch and listen for awhile and wait for them to “tell” me their name. Unless it’s an adoptee, all my animals over the years have ”told” me their names 😉 Happily this approach has worked quite well in terms of humans enjoying their names. Well, except for Hank the Welsumer rooster. As I...
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    What do you do with your chickens when they die?

    Oh any number of reasons-sentiment, practicality, returning the deceased right back to nature. Living in a rural area I take my deceased birds to a remote area far from home, dogs, livestock. I cover them up with whatever is at hand, thank them, and bid them RIP.
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    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Protect Your Chickens From Predators?

    :lau
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    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Protect Your Chickens From Predators?

    Living in a sub-alpine habitat, we‘re spared raccoons and most years skunks. Instead we cope with foxes, coyotes, bobcats, ermine (weasel family) and bears, dealt with hardware cloth, electric netting, and hot wire. Raptors are the biggest problem though, hawks and owls especially. So covering...
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    Crusty/scaly/cloudy eye

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    Crusty/scaly/cloudy eye

    3rd eyelid—duh! was thinking plain neosporin too thanks!
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    Crusty/scaly/cloudy eye

    I noticed yesterday on my 5 month old white rock hen, Daisy, crust around on her eyelid and a lesion between her eye and beak. She seems to be using her right eye more to examine things. Looking at the pics I took late this afternoon I became concerned seeing a cloudy cornea and what appears to...
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    Sudden death=shock & sadness

    Thank you, Chook. I loved my Henrietta too🥰😢
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    FOX ATTACK HELP!

    Hey DD-while I can’t offer advice, I can though share my empathy and concern for Donald. The poor girl! Hopefully she’ll recover quickly—she‘s lucky she has someone around with good ears. Keep us posted
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    Sudden death=shock & sadness

    Went out to coop this morning only to find one of our Freedom Rangers, Henrietta (that’s her as my photo), frozen solid on coop floor...a truly unexpected and sudden death...she had been as active and feisty as ever late yesterday afternoon. So, of our 18 hens, she wasn’t one I would’ve expected...
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    Long beak!

    I like and will do!
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    Herman or Hermione?

    Thank you!
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    Herman or Hermione?

    He/she is a 15 week old Cornish X who got paroled at 7 weeks after becoming lame and nearly pecked to death one night. We put him in our infirmary where he recovered from his wounds but remains lame. He squawks hello, tries to follow us around, and, as you can see, has swelled up like a tick...
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