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    Squirrels biting through hawk netting

    I like the trap idea, but we have a "barn" cat that visits us and catches mice. I wouldn't want to injure him. My chickens are batams, so I don't think the treadle will work. Switching to fermented feed might do the trick! I will have to try that. Thank you to all for the suggestions! Thank you...
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    Squirrels biting through hawk netting

    Thank you for your reply. I had to giggle about, "your bad attitude ". I am pretty fed up with them destroying the netting and consuming large amounts of feed. I just wondering if this will be a never ending battle, since I live in the woods. Shooting them may never end.
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    Squirrels biting through hawk netting

    They are Eastern Grey squirrels.
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    Squirrels biting through hawk netting

    Hello all, How do I keep squirrels out of the chicken yard and out of the feed? They keep chewing through the hawk netting. The chicken yard is too large for me to afford covering the whole thing with hardware cloth. I will try to add a photo.
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    Chicken not walking normal and seems sick

    Thank you very much for the suggestions! I am keeping a close eye on her. She seems her normal self now. There wasn't a second egg layed, so I don't know what was/is going on. It won't hurt to continue giving her a boost of vitamins for a little bit.
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    Chicken not walking normal and seems sick

    Thank you! ❤️ I will have to look closer at her ears. There aren't any lesions or abnormalities in her mouth. I did separate her for a bit, to let her eat alone and also so I could watch her up close. But, I then returned her. Her egg was normal, but I wondered if she had another maybe bound...
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    Chicken not walking normal and seems sick

    I have a hen that I noticed this morning was walking weird. I isolated her to check her over. She seems tired, is panting, and is walking weird. Her head kind of flips back a little sometimes as she walks. She layed an egg during the time I was observing her. I brought her scrambled eggs and...
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    Post pictures of your Meyer hatchery Cookies & Cream chickens (Hens & Roosters)!!

    A cutie! They all are!
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    I bet your mother is thankful you feel that way. I am glad you feel that way as well. Even if...

    I bet your mother is thankful you feel that way. I am glad you feel that way as well. Even if your children, in the future, end up feeling like they missed out on something, you will definitely be doing the best for them by home schooling.
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    Thank you! Keep up the good work. I think we both made a choice that is the best for children...

    Thank you! Keep up the good work. I think we both made a choice that is the best for children, especially in this crazy world today. Not everyone is as blessed to be able to stay at home and teach their own children.
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    Naked Neck breed mix?

    Thank you for the response. I was curious because some of his hatch mates have feathers on their legs and some do not. I think he is pretty, and love his long tail feathers. He has a good personality as well.
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    Naked Neck breed mix?

    No guesses? I got them at 5 weeks, back in the early summer.
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    Naked Neck breed mix?

    Hello :) I was wondering what mix are my Naked Necks. I didn't know if the rooster would give a better clue than the girls. I got him from someone who said her hen (a naked neck) went missing and came back with babies. She is not sure who the rooster was that mated with her, because she has a...
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    Does this poop look normal

    I have two Polish girls, who have not started laying yet, in quarentine. They have been there since November 26th. I had picked the two girls up, plus a rooster. The rooster had started having a lot of bloody diarrhea on day 12 of quarentine. I had a thread on him, because at one point it looked...
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    Does this poop look normal

    I meant to mention that the watery poop in the picture has a mealworm in it that she did not poop out like that, it was on the ground.
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