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    Help !! What to do with 5 gallon of raspberries !!!

    Raspberry margaritas...raspberry muffins...raspberry ice cream...raspberry sorbet...now I am hungry!
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    Sick Leghorn

    Not sure but you may want to separate her from the group. Do you have a dog crate or something to put her in?
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    fox in the hen yard

    Sorry to hear about losing so many hens...good luck!
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    New Hen Still Picked On!

    HELP! We added a new hen, about 16 weeks old (at least that is what I was told!) to our existing flock of three. She is a Rhode Island Red mix. She has been in the coop for a week now and the other girls are still pecking her incessantly. She is hiding in the corners and sometimes cries. No...
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    Cold weather question

    We live in eastern Pa. and I do have a heater in my coop. It is a heater that looks like a large (@24 x 24) ceramic tile. It mounts on the side of the coop and plugs in. I have it on a timer so that it goes on around five and off around 10 the next morning. I keep it on 24/7 in January so...
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    Best Bath??????

    WHat is the best way to bathe a hen? I read cool water is better...use a portable beverage tub? Do they like it?
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    Does this sound like a coon ?????

    Do possums take the birds with them? One of our hens is missing and all that was left was a bunch of feathers...no blood or anything else. Maybe she is in the trees? If so will she come down on her own??
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    Best Way To Bathe A Hen??

    I have a hen with a poopy butt and a prolapsed vent. The vent is healing with some Prep H and I have been wiping the area as best I can. She needs a bath...and there is only me to do it. Suggestions??
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    Getting the hens to lay in the nest

    How many boxes do you have for them? Maybe they need to lay and there is no box available for them...?
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    How many chickens can my coop hold?

    Welcome to the wild and wacky world of chickens! I would say that you should be fine with 6 chickens. I have a coop that suits four birds just fine and it is about 4 x 4 with a covered run about 10 x 5...lots of wing room! But, when they are in the coop at night, they are crowded in the coop...
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    Help Needed Please

    I read somewhere that garlic will help with the sneezing and occasional runny nose! Has anyone else heard of this??
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    Scratch Recipe

    What kind of wheat??
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    Mystery critter in Pa???

    We lost one of our hens yesterday morning to a critter that pulled down the hardware cloth under the coop, crawled in, snatched a hen and left. We discovered a pile of feathers but no blood. We followed the trail of feathers to find the security breach and continued to search the yard for the...
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    Chicken lock-up?

    Thanks for your thoughts!
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    Chicken lock-up?

    Is it necessary to lock up the chickens in the henhouse at night? During the day they have the house and a small enclosed run to stretch their legs. I haven't received my hens yet and am trying to figure out how all this works!
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