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    Favorite treats for your chickens

    Yoghurt
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    My top GLW is jealous????

    I have the exact same thing. My hen is so jealous of the pullets. If I pick one up or offer them treats, she flies at them and pecks them. I was thinking that maybe when they are full grown and bigger than her, they may defend themselves.
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    My hamburg stopped laying eggs. I think she is upset.

    Two eggs in a row. I guess she is back on track.
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    does anybody have buff brahmas

    I have a young buff Brahma and she seems intelligent and very calm. She sits on my shoulder . She's also very soft with big beautiful eyes. Something happened the other night and she didn't make it into the coop. I thought I had lost her but she reappeared the next morning and I was happy and...
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    mouse eating chickens!!

    Definitely, they are omnivores and the living relatives of dinosaurs. Little velociraptors, actually.
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    Training my chickens to be easy to catch?

    My Spangled Hamburg hen comes when I call her and comes running to me when I go to the yard. She does this little squatting routine and lets me pet her. I pick her up every day and hand feed treats to her. Also I pick up my pullets everyday and feed them. The purpose is so that they know and...
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    Best layer/friendliest breed of chicken?

    Right now, the calmest smartest bird is the buff Brahma, but my Barred Rock and buff Orpington, RIR and even my flighty Spangled Hamburg are all very friendly. The Hamburg climbs 2 flights of stairs when I call her to have a bowl of yoghurt.
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    Raccoons

    Electric fencing can be run from batteries as well . The don't take much power.
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    Coyote Problem *Update* w/ graphic pic

    I had the same problem. She came back every few days around 10 or 11 and picked up a little something for dinner. We solved the problem by installing an electric chicken fence around our yard and we have had no problems since, Good luck.
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    What predator will kill like this???

    Definitely a raccoon.
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    My hamburg stopped laying eggs. I think she is upset.

    My Speckled Hamburg stopped laying . She is a great producer and she stopped laying once before when I farmed her out to a friend to fix the henyard. Now I have introduced 3 pullets (2 months old) and a red heat lamp into the coop. She seems comfortable around the new birds (she's bossing them...
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    poll: are you legal or an outlaw?

    My girls are illegal. the city I live in Surrey, BC Canada was going to read a change to the by-laws but it got delayed and then cancelled. Alas I had my birds by then in antipation of the change. In Vancouver you can keep 3 hens ( no roosters) in your backyard. I am following the rules...
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    Hello from North Yorkshire, England

    Welcome, nice to have representation from oversea. Debbie ,White Rock ,BC, Canada
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    Mystery predator...give me ideas as to WHAT did this

    Wow, sounds like you have seen all the predators. I have lost 3 hens to coyotes (I presume) because they just disappeared during late morning. It continued every second to third day ; they just kept coming back and picking off the largest bird. My coop is impregnable with automatic doors on...
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    How far do YOU go to get the chicken coop clean.

    I use the deep litter method with pine shavings and diatomaceous earth which I change every 6 months after regularily adding more shavings , more DME and stirring. I have straw in the raised nesting boxes, which always remain remarkably clean. The litter goes into the compost. There are no...
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