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    PLANTING IN A CHICKEN FENCE

    The trees would be smaller saplings, there is currently nothing in the fence other than grass, coop and chickens. Before the fence, when I would let the chicken out, they would in packs, run in different directions. One small faction would head straight for the old untrimmed grape vine. The...
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    PLANTING IN A CHICKEN FENCE

    Last week a friend of mine brought over 20 trees (12 apricot 8 peach) to my house and we planted around the unused parts of my property. I would like to utilize as much of the dead space as I can. I didn't plant any of the trees in the chicken fence just because I didn't know how they would...
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    Neighbor dogs, what do I do?

    I have been on the other side of the problem. I had a boxer/ burmess mtn/ german shepard mix that I never saw bark at a human. She would meet the neighbor children when they got off the bus and run the austrialian shephard that stalked these kids away. Then she would play with them all the way...
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    Hen eating eggs

    We have a hen that is in lock down as we speak. I increased the oyster shells to no avail, collected eggs asap, even put golf balls in the nest to make her give up. I was full of hope til one of my young leghorns followed the lead of the old hen and gave an egg a peck right after the old hen...
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    Any remedys to stop egg eating?????

    We took our egg eater out of the coop and put her in a wire cage. Our plan was to get rid of her after she ate her eggs 2 days in a row. Her saving grace is that she didn't eat it today. I have noticed at night with 23 hens on the roost she has a roost all to herself. The day after we took...
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    lerthagic hen

    I dont think this hen layed very well. We were getting sporadic egg prduction with very thin shells and odd shapes. Since this has happened there have not been any odd eggs. thanks Doeboy
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    lerthagic hen

    About 3 days ago my wife called me at work to tell me that we had a sick chicken. She said that when she opened the door and the stampeed of feathers went by she noticed that one of the older hens was stumbling about the run, like it was drunk. I had seen one of the hens acting strange a few...
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    hungry chickens

    last night when I got home late about 11:00 pm I checked the chickens to make sdre they were ok and the door was closed. But I noticed that the food was getting low so went to the shed and picked up a 5 gallon of feed (crums and pellets ) that I mixed together. Carried the bucket to the coop so...
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    first egg tonight

    Got my first egg today looks like a shooter marble but man is it pretty. I always thought the golden comets would be the first sinse their faces are red and they are older. Who would have guesed that the skinniest leghorn in my yard would be the first. All my chickens are fat and sassy except...
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    Show Me Your Fence Pictures For Your Chickens

    This last fence is more what i'm thinling about. I'm thinking that if I make a 4x8 rectangle maybe 4x16 and plant 4x4 posts on the ends. I can build a fence that will keep my chickens in and look tight to the wood. I have seen many 2x4 fences and the problem is the slop with metal fence post and...
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    Show Me Your Fence Pictures For Your Chickens

    Thanks all I'm thinking in terms of a 4 foot high fence that looks sectional. I don't think they will fly over it being they are not very flighty birds. I would like to build something that has a flat wood rail at the top with the wire stapled to it so it will be tight. I have considered...
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    Show Me Your Fence Pictures For Your Chickens

    I am fairly new to the chicken rearing and have put the cart before the horse buying too many chicken too fast. Well before I really knew the penalty of chickens pooping on the carport floor. Needless to say my wife is not happy, with the poop that is. I love my chickens, so does she, we have...
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    hello from w nc new guy here

    Hello all I am from western north carolina. I have 24 hens :RHODE IASLAND REDS, LEG HORNS, BUFF ORPINGTONS, 1 JERSEY GIANT, GOLDEN COMETS, SEX LINKS, AND 1 EE. I am fairly new to chickens of my own. I am in the process of building a coop from a monster dog house. That continues to evolve. The...
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    bloody yolk with no shell

    There was no yellow just a lot of clear gel with a section of blood. The whole thing was spead out for about a foot long by maybe an inch and a half wide. It wasn't poop from what I could tell. We had a hen pass a soft white sack that had the same type of gel in it about a month ago. We saw it...
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    bloody yolk with no shell

    Hello everyone! First post here and have a question. Yesterday I found on the carport a bloody yolk stretched out across the concrete. There was no yellow to it just the clear jell. I have 24 hens and no rooster. The majority of them were raised from dibbies but I bought 4 large ones and was...
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