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    What is stealing my scratch?

    Thats what I thought. I had a problem with them over the summer, I guess it is time to get the trap out again.
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    GRAPHIC: Buff Roo, Found Dead, Pulled Through Door Run

    I had the same thing happen to me over the summer. I lost my entire flock to a mean and pregnant raccoon. I took care of 6 or 7 of them, and its as if they could tell my backyard was a bad place to be because they avoided it for several months. Now I just had a raccoon tip my girls bowl over...
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    What is stealing my scratch?

    I have a problem with some pest stealing my chicken's food. Two days ago I noticed a spot where something tried to dig its way into my coop (thats not going to happen, after I lost my flock to a pregnant racoon I buried wire 12-18 inches deep around the run and have some wire laying 12 inches...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Here is the 1st egg from one of our RIRs. I hope they are all that big, it doesnt quite fit in the large egg cartons we saved from the store. What is funny is that the black star sex link that is easily a pound or more heavier doesnt lay egss that are quite as large (well, that have laid a...
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    Help request for chicken newbie

    Yay, there is joy in our chicken family. I went out this morning to feed them and right there in the middle of the nest box was a perfect and relatively big egg. It was still warm, I cant believe we didnt hear her lay. I am pretty sure it was the darker of the RIRs, her personality has...
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    Help request for chicken newbie

    Its been a little over three weeks since I first started soliciting people's help. I have rebuilt the nest box, I used the dimensions I found on www.byexample.com, the box is 9x12x12. I reinstalled a flat roost, I used a 1x4 that I had laying around. They are idiots and it took them a week to...
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    Help request for chicken newbie

    Are pecking order disputes more common when they are about to lay? When we open the door to let them out they fly around like idiots for a couple of minutes and then wind up challenging each other for 10-15 minutes more. It's funny to watch; the RIRs team up on the big Sex Link. The other Sex...
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    Help request for chicken newbie

    Thanks everyone for their help with my girls. Here are the best best pics I could get of their waddles, if that helps to determine their age. In order to notice when they lay we typically keep them in the coop until around 11ish everyday because someone told me they usually lay in the morning...
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    Help request for chicken newbie

    I am looking for a little help with getting my chickens to lay. I have four birds, two Black Sex links and two RIRs. I am not actually sure how old they are. I bought them about 2.5 months ago from a guy who claimed they were 5 months, but I know that isnt true. My guess at the time is that...
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    GAINESVILLE, FL~Seminar/show/sale~UPDATE 10/15/09-Map added pg. 1

    It sounds like a lot of fun, I am going. Well at least until game time, Go Gators. Does anyone know what kind of chickens will be for sale? I have four birds I am looking for get rid of (two RIRs and two Sex Links that dont seem to feel like laying) and am looking for two laying hens. If...
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