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    What predator is this?

    Hi...I havn't been on the forums in a while but we just lost a chicken to a Hawk or falcon this morning and I am trying to get some ideas on protecting them..my husband is out getting some netting to cover their space but it is awfully big...I wanted to tell you that the only other girl we lost...
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    Chick with limp legs

    Hi, I am having the same problem as your chicken...what was the outcome? I have a 2 year old chicken that all of a sudden can't walk, no sign of trauma or mites or anything. I have seperated her from the other 5 and we have her in the warm garage. She eats and drinks fine if we put it in front...
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    Welcome New Section: Local Chicken Laws & Ordinances!

    If you want to hear what might happen if you call your city...watch this!!
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    Welcome New Section: Local Chicken Laws & Ordinances!

    Thank you guys for all of the ideas...our ordinance is pretty rock solid in that it clearly states no fowl and nowhere are animals defined as pets even in the dog section. I feel like there will be a lot of support and the fact that Wake Forest just got their laws changed may help me. Also, our...
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    Welcome New Section: Local Chicken Laws & Ordinances!

    Hi, We just got verbal notice that we will be getting an official letter to remove our chickens or incur fines. We have six hens in our backyard which we consider our pets, but apparently the town considers them livestock. We are moving them to my husbands shop but I am prepared to try and get...
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    please evryone read

    This is happening to me too! My 2 RIR's both stopped about 2 months ago and they are 1 1/2 yrs old. I am so so sad...I was trying to convince myself they were molting but I don't think so. My husband wants to eat them....not Red and Pancake!!!
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    Encouragement for impatient egg laying

    CRAZY, we have 4 hens, all the same age. The 2 RIR's started laying in September, one of the Americauna/EE's started at 27 weeks old October and YESTERDAY the other Americauna/EE, Spike, layed her 1st egg at 35 weeks old !! Probably our fault for naming her Spike...They lay the prettiest green...
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    I opened up the nest box and....

    There was a beady eyed possum staring back at me!!! This was about 9am this morning and it looked very much at home. I thought is was a baby possum because it was fairly small...smaller than my chickens, but my husband thinks small full grown possum...maybe they are just smaller than I thought...
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    Hello Fellow Chicken Lovers!

    HI fellow North Carolinian...I live in a very urban area and have 4 hens, 2 dogs, 1 kid, 1 hubby...and that probably is the usual order (ok, one of the dogs may win top spot ) We already had a she that turned out to be a he and we had to find a new home for that baby due to having such close...
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    badminton with chicks

    My DH loves to catch live bugs for the girls and watch them go crazy, my 5 yo thought it was a hoot when daddy fed them a cockroach sandwich one night!!
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    Would a RIR rooster and a Cuckoo Maran hen make a sex link?

    I am very new to chickens so I have no clue but I noticed that you are from Bolivia, Serendipity!! I live on Oak Island!! Just wanted to introduce myself...how many chicks do you have? I bet you have a nice large piece of property, we only have a small piece of sand at the ocean!!
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    Here is our first egg, a double yolker, awesome!! After that they have been smaller and more perfectly shaped. Layed by our RIR, named Red. The other girls (3) havn't layed yet! Oh yeah, it's not quite as gigantic as it looks, it is in my 5 year olds hand!
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    i cracked open the first egg

    I am a chiropractor and I have been showing all of my patients the picture of our first egg (scrambled cuz my kid wanted it that way) next to our grocery store "ORGANIC" egg. Hmmmm, makes you really think about our food supply doesn't it!?
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    Came back from vacation to a biting chicken - what happened?

    wow, this happend to me to!! I went out of town for the weekend and left them in just the coop and run, no yard privledges (the dogs got that) while my neighbor kept an eye on water. I come back and Red pecked me in the calf when I walked in!! Also are sweetest gal! I wasn't mad very long...
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    What to do with my rooster?!

    no one told me about the box thing, but just to give you hope, I met a women on this site that took my rooster just this week!! Good luck, and post some pics...that worked for me!!
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