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    very aggressive 2 month old RIR

    Pull the old switch-a-roo. Your husband will never know. You don't need an attack chicken in the flock. If he asks, just confuse him like my wife does to me.
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    Aggressive chick?

    We had one that was slightly larger than the others. It always jumped between your hand and the smaller ones. It turned out to be a very sweet hen, probably 4 years old now. One of very few that has a name, Amy. I don't know why she is named that.
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    Selling eggs- people not paying for eggs

    We have a friend who grows and sells tomatoes in the summer. People stole the money box, cut the padlock, took tomatoes by the boxfuls without paying. Probably things that he didn’t mention. The state of the economy didn’t seem to be a factor in the thieving
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    What is your chickens’ favorite scrap treat?

    Ours are totally free range. Barn cats get what cats will eat, chickens everything else. Once at a restaurant they were taking down the salad bar, everything into a garbage bag. A guy said that it was a shame, girl offered it to him. He laughed and said nobody would eat it now. I said that our...
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    Dealing with Opossums and chickens

    No matter what some animal rights person has written possums kill adult chickens. I know from experience. Unfortunately if you have tiny baby kittens in your barn they eat them too. Again I KNOW from experience.
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    How much do your birds eat?

    As for waste, let their feeders go empty and they will clean up everything they have dropped. That’s what chickens do, scratch for food. They forage. If you turned them loose and no predators were around to kill them, they wouldn’t starve. They would find food. They only waste food if you over...
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    Please Help! Raccoon Problem!!! Click Here!!!!!!!!

    Trapping will only delay the death of a chicken. You catch a few coons, a month or two later a different one will tunnel into the coop. The OP can’t shoot. The OP can’t have dogs running loose. Coons were tunneling under the walls into our coop. I put large pieces of concrete tight against...
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    Is it worth the extra $$

    My yolks are deep yellow/ orange. The girls free range, eat the cheapest food I can find, mixed with cracked corn. They also get oyster shells, and fruit/vegetable scraps and anything the dog and cats won’t eat. The barn cats eat nearly anything. If the expensive food is so great why do they...
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    Is it ok if my chicken crop is empty?

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    Is it possible my hens will no longer lay due to neighbors noisy dogs and an attack by said dogs 5 months back?

    Our hens free range and are unattended more often than not. You can’t watch them every second. If we lived nearby I would give you a hen that I know is laying. Maybe yours would get the hint. If you have my luck, mine would probably quit too.
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    Hi everyone. I’m located on Long Island I have 4 chickens. Three of which I rescued from a divorced couple

    Welcome. I’m hardly ever here, now and then. I have too many chickens and ducks. 🙄
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    Neighbor's dog came back for our ducks today! What to do?

    I don’t see how you are going to be able to work with your neighbors. They have already lied about the situation and they are being very aggressive. The dog needs to be gone.
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    Not getting enough water from nipple waterer?

    In the coop I have 2 five gallon buckets with 2 nipples each, vertical. They use them, but I also set some old pans near the cattle water trough and put water in them. They don’t have to run back into the coop for a drink that way. They prefer the pans. I also have ducks, so the water in the...
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    how to get rid of a hawk killing my chickens

    My chickens and ducks want to free range. When I don’t let them out for some reason they are furious and don’t hesitate to let me know. I started noticing the hawks when one got a duck one day and a chicken the next. I left my birds cooped up for 2 days and the hawk moved on. It was fall, and I...
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    "Small order fee"

    TSC & Rural King are “cheep” in comparison. I have only ever gotten one cockerel. If they don’t look healthy that means that they probably aren’t. If they die within 48 hours you get a replacement. I don’t know what they are vaccinated for, but mine are healthy. I don’t work at either place or...
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