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    Goopy, crusty chicken eye

    I don't know what happened to my chicken's eye. She was attacked by some kind of predator, but I think her eye was starting to goop up just before that. The attack only took a bunch of feathers; she didn't seem to lose any skin in the attack. At any rate, the eye has gotten progressively worse...
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    Injured chickens: should I bathe them?

    My two chickens appear to have been attacked. They both are very dirty, possibly wet (though I'm not sure how since it hasn't rained), and maybe injured. One in particular seems injured. I feel like I should bathe them to wash off whatever gunk has been transferred to them, but will this only...
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    Postmortem photos; please look.

    My chicken Camilla died this afternoon, and I am trying to figure out why. I took photos of her body immediately after she died; see this album: Camilla's postmortem photos. Let me tell you the WHOLE story just in case there are any clues there. I have had a terrible time with chickens; I...
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    Please help - What killed my chickens?

    I'm so sorry for your chicken loss.
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    My Neighbors Little Dog Is A Threat?!

    I'm so sorry for your loss! It seems like there is no end to the hazards for chickens. I lost 5 to a possum last week, and I've had a hawk dive-bomb my chickens, and now I find out that neighborhood dogs are a potential threat, too? Wow. I'm only two months into chicken-raising. I never knew it...
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    Comment by 'JessicaEm' in article 'Pallett Coop In Progress Moving Right A Long'

    That's a good-looking pallet coop! Where do you get the pallets with the boards so close together? All the pallets I've come across have large spaces between the boards.
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    Comment by 'JessicaEm' in article 'The Chicken Church'

    That is adorable! I love it.
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    Comment by 'JessicaEm' in article 'Rural Rehatch'

    I like it! It looks really nice!
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    Can she see her food?

    They were attacked in the coop; maybe she is still traumatized! I do think the possum is what killed them, mostly because the next night, we set a live trap and trapped a possum. The chickens who were killed were all pretty young; only two months old. They had been in their coop only a week or...
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    Can she see her food?

    Well, I hadn't been keeping food in the run, because it's not totally shielded from the rain, and I didn't want it to get wet. I was just leaving the food and water in the coop. When I talked about opening up the side of the coop, that is not normal operations. I only open that to change out...
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    Can she see her food?

    I have one chicken, about two months old, who is the sole survivor of a possum attack that claimed the lives of her 5 friends last week. Perhaps because she is the only one left, I noticed that she doesn't much touch her food at night in her coop, or even in the day time in her coop. But when I...
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    The Little Red Barn Chicken Tractor By Bkeee

    Adorable!
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    Comment by 'JessicaEm' in article 'Hen Hideout'

    Very nice! It blends in really well with your house, and it looks great.
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    My Tractor Style A Frame

    Very nice! Classy.
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    "REPLACE/ADD/REMOVE A LETTER" GAME

    Soak.
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