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    People with multiple roosters, advice needed.

    A really good way to tenderize older chicken meat is to pressure cook it. I recently was gifted an Instant Pot (electric pressure cooker) and tried some stewing chicken in it. Was amazed at how good it came out.
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    People with multiple roosters, advice needed.

    I don't comment here much any more. I've retired and have been traveling for a couple of years. No chickens. Just moved into a new forever-retired home on 5 acres. My neighbor, bless his heart, keeps us supplied with eggs. He's a gentle soul who releases spiders and never butchers his excess...
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    She's worse than a rooster!

    Dear lord, that would make an incredible alarm sound. Yeah she's got volume. I've had a few loud hens, she's in the top 10%.
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    Comment by 'Double Yolked' in article '11 Accidental Ways To Die (For Your Chickens)'

    Great article. I have personally come to the conclusion that if there is ANY possible way for my lovable dumb clucks to injure/kill themselves, they'll find it.
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    Poll on flock toys — please answer if possible!

    When my dogs lose any toy through the fence into the chicken run the ladies all pull up their dainty feathered skirts and shriek like Victorian girls and run for the other side of the run, staying there having vapors until I remove the offensive toy. They do like the bark and moss covered swing...
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    Help baby chick has strange bugs on it

    I went through this with red bird mites, I would absolutely disassemble the housing and sterilize it. I had the red mites come back twice and finally had to burn my chicken tractor since I could never get the mites out of the cracks in the wood no matter how much Permethrin I used. Destroy/burn...
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    Comment by 'Double Yolked' in article 'Pelletized Bedding / Shavings'

    A note on the pellet bedding. I used it for half a dozen pullets, I had been feeding them pelleted food. Bad idea. The little morons couldn't tell the pelleted bedding from pellet food and stuffed their crops with it. I had to be gone for about 12 hours and came home to two sick hens who took a...
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    How many birds can fit "comfortably"

    I raise for eggs not meat so a calm flock is a profitable flock. It's worth it to me to do what ever keeps the ladies happy. I get about 300 eggs a year per hen, give or take 50. Works out to about $100 a year profit per hen. Too expensive to toss a hen in the freezer unless she's really a bad...
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    Trespassing neighbor with dog chasing chickens

    Been there done this. It's not the chicken keeping to focus on. It's the dog being set on another animal. That, everywhere in the US, is animal cruelty. Had something similar happen about 10 years ago. Cop told me flat out, deliberately setting a dog on an animal or pet belonging to another...
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    Can chickens move into a coop that has mice?

    Check out Mouse Trap Monday on YouTube, he's got a slew of safe traps that will get the mice but leave the pullets safe. He tests mouse traps by the score and even sells some that work well. (Avoid the Amazon knockoffs, they are cheap junk)
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    Trespassing neighbor with dog chasing chickens

    This is not a time to be timid about the neighborhood, this person will set her dog on more than your chickens in the future if left go without consequences. Contact the police. They have laws regarding this everywhere, town or country. Don't go it alone. Your trespasser was breaking the law...
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    How many birds can fit "comfortably"

    When making my coops I've always calculated a little extra space per bird since there's always at least one or two birds that will fuss at each other. The one foot per bird rule on roosting bars is good for regular sized birds unless you have social issues then you'll want 16" and possibly two...
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    Eating the eggs

    I've seen that kicking thing before. I'd look at building a good egg retaining wall. Don't stress over making the nest box look like other people's or making it "pretty." Just make it large enough that a grumpy hen can lay her egg not on top of another's or more likely... work to fix it so they...
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    Freak Size Egg

    OMG that poor hen that laid that egg! Was going to bet it's was double yolked or had an egg inside an egg. Your girls deserve extra treats and calcium after that.
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    Eating the eggs

    My very first flock I added a pair of very tame sister hens like this. One, Fluff was an egg eater from shortly after she started laying. I used every trick listed above and in other guides and discussions and a few I made up on the fly. Nothing worked. Fluff taught the rest of my little newbie...
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