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    So many dead chickens

    how do you keep the birds off it? They just learn?
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    So many dead chickens

    Ya’ll I don’t know what to do. We have lost 9 birds in the last week. Something keeps ripping holes in the chicken wire and getting in. It’s killing the birds them eating them in the cage and dashing without the bodies. Last night my husband sat out and shot two coyotes, three skunks and two...
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    Kids have difficulty eating chicken?

    Anyone have problems with their kids raising chickens and then not eating chicken? At what age did it start? Baby is learning words and I’m thinking I might call the chickens Hens and a rooster all the time to disassociate
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    Spots on Pekin duck's beak?

    Is sudden onset of freckles (within a day) normal? She's been laying for quite some time now, she's a year old
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    Spots on Pekin duck's beak?

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    Spots on Pekin duck's beak?

    All, I noticed some spots on one of my pekin's beaks this morning. It was acting very isolated then I saw these spots which are entirely new. Like within a day new. I thought maybe it just needed a good bath, a little spa treatment. We live in Michigan so everything is still frozen here and they...
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    Severe frostbite, help!

    Thanks everyone for your input! He is back with the girls and doing well. I placed him back after about 3 days in warm isolation (barn with heat lamp) after his blackened spurs looked like they had mostly turned back orange. I figure there's not much I can do about the comb at this point. It's...
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    Severe frostbite, help!

    He is free range and it was a cold/very windy day with a low wind chill. It could have happened in the coop but likely not bc he's had no problem with much colder/negative temps over the last couple years. I think he was just out in the wind too long. Do you think I should worry about infection?
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    Severe frostbite, help!

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    Severe frostbite, help!

    Our rooster has what looks like severe frostbite on his comb (as pictured). His spurs are darkened too. We put him in a crate in the barn out of the wind (gusts up to 60 mph today and about 35°) with a heat lamp on him. He's eating and is very vocal because this is obviously not his favorite...
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    Curing Broody Hen

    5 days?! Holy cow I feel bad for her already. I guess it will just have to be a couple more days...has anyone had a longer span?
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    Curing Broody Hen

    Hey everyone! I'm in need of some advice. I have a 1.5 year old hen who's broody for the first time. First two weeks of broodiness I removed her from the nesting boxes as much as I could. Didn't work. So I've put her in a raised wire dog cage with the bottom tray portion taken out (it's on top...
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