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    Keeping Chickens Cool In a Heat Wave

    Yes the melons. I give my guys watermelon daily. Cantelope if diced smaller for the chicks. my chickens do not like the honey dew melon. no Idea why. But in Florida, we get WATERMELON year round. My chickens love it. Just a big hunk, even the chicks drink the juice. I make it a treat...
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    Keeping Chickens Cool In a Heat Wave

    My chickens are free range at the moment, I live in Tavernier, fl keys. Hot every day. The chickens love to live by side of house, where the ac drains out. I let it get overgrown with brush and water the ground, plus the ac units drain there. They love it. If it an overcast day, they are...
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    How to get rid of rats in the coop

    rats, once you get them, hard to get rid of. Cut the feed source off, use the snap traps, put a cage or something over snap traps. I live in the florida Keys, we do not have a rat problem, due to the Heavy population of pythons, that don't belong here. Invest in a few spayed or neutered barn...
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    BANTAMS breeding like crazy.

    Thank you, I am going to try it. The Roosters well, they are for the stew pot, I have no other option. The hens we can keep. Can't have half roosters and half hens. Looking for the Wild Bird center, who takes care of our wounded pelicans and sea birds to be able to make them into neutered...
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    BANTAMS breeding like crazy.

    Well I lost my background information, but here it is in a text. I guess. Computer spell check would not accept the word or words nut shell. Other than taking /eggs away from the broody hens, or giving them Winn dixie eggs (supermarket eggs) and leaving them 2 or 3 fertile eggs, what can I do...
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    You might be a “Southie” if...

    Alright, what is a popple and what is Lutefish? Is it similar to our "charmin snappers?" We call them Charmin due to they turds and junk. Fish that never leave Marina and just eat handouts and well, turds from live abords who do not pump out on a normal basis. In the last 10 YEARS, Dock Master...
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    New to chickens, again

    Chicks thru the USPS would be the way to go. I ordered 100 chicks to be delivered to Ramsey, NJ in 1977, had to order a lot at one time for price and the cold road trip. Ellie and Marty, my brother, let the Postmaster know that they were coming, had date and time. Pickup at Post Office. Post...
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    New to chickens, again

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    Hello everyone!

    great to see your flock, free range it appears to me. My small flock of 5 soon to be 11, will have to go back in the pen. I am planning a pen 30 ft by 24 ft. The roosters crowing, I am very lucky. Both Neighbors, Left and right, go to work at 7:00am. I need to increase coop, and maybe try...
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    How to get rid of rats in the coop

    Suggest to remove every food source when the chickens go to roost. Put in Metal garbage can. They run about $20.00 each at True Value or Ace Hardware. No reason to leave out food overnight, chickens do not eat at night. Put out in Day, does not have to be at sunrise, just day time, and...
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    Is there something wrong? Matted feathers.

    Dear Theresa, I would first get some shavings for the Brooder, I used Pine shavings. They Might come with mites, a lesson I learned from Robbie at Keys Kritters, Key Largo FL. There is a natural mineral? called DE, or Dimetrious Earth. I know that it is spelled wrong, but a good pet store uses...
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    Is there something wrong? Matted feathers.

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