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    more fox questions-game cam pics

    I've had a fox in my yard for over four years. It has never kill a chicken. it has been in the yard when i had chickens out of the pen but it still has never messed with them. I have had more problems with possums, hawks, and dogs. I'm not saying that the fox will never kill my chcikens but so...
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    When can I start feeding egglayer?

    I added chicks that hatched in early May to my flock and stopped feeding egglayer when they were added. How long should I wait before they are old enough to eat it. My egg production dropped to almost nothing. I know that it drops during the summer but still egglayer helps some. So how old do my...
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    hatch on different days

    I had 10 chicks hatch this weekend. All the eggs were placed under the hen at the same time and should have hatched Saturday. But Friday afternoon I had two chicks, added 6 more Saturday, and 2 more Sunday. I just thought it was strange for them to hatch over a three day period.
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    How do you separate the feed for the chicks vs layers?

    I usually keep my chicks seperate until they are about 10 weeks old. I take out the broody hen at about six weeks. It can be a problem if you don't have enough places to keep them. Right now I have 4 hens with chicks from 5 weeks old to 1 day old ( 8 hatched yesterday) and I have two more hens...
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    Delaware genetics for dummies?

    http://www.albc-usa.org/cpl/delaware.html It says that the cross changed to a cornish x rock cross (solid white) in the 1950s. The breed started as one cross but later changed to what we have today. My guess is that there was more varity before the 1950s.
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    hen gave up on Sunday

    My he quit setting her nest on Sunday. They were do to hatch today. I just put a light bulb over the eggs to try to keep them warm and see if they would hatch. One hatched last night and two more were well under way when I left for work this morning.
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    Hen stopped sitting.

    Eggs should hatch Friday and she gave up yesterday. I have them under a light right now to keep them warm but not sure if it's gonna help. This is the third time I have had a hen leave a nest this year. I have hatched 103 chicks this year so I guess I shouldn't complain but it's still a pain...
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    help find the killer!!!

    sorry i forgot to include my location. I'm in south Alabama, about as far south in Alabama as you can get. To my knowledge there are no weasels around here. The foxes that I have seen are small but I wouldn't think that they could have gotten through such a small hole. Another thing that I...
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    help find the killer!!!

    I went out the other other morning to find I was missing 26 12 week old birds. 15 were dead in the pen and the other 11 have not been found nor have any remains, not even feathers. the dead birds were all intact with a few bite marks but their heads had not been eat nor was their stomach. What...
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    feeding layer to chicks

    ok so we establish that it's not good to feed chicks layer, but what about adult birds eat starter? I have 4 hens still with their chicks and I give them starter. Also there were 7 other hens that were fed starter while they were with their chicks. I kept the hens with their chicks until the...
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    how long?

    One of my hens has hatched 17 chicks. They, the hen included, or in a rabbit hutch. The chicks are now about a week old. How long should I leave the hen in with the chicks?
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    New Roo

    I was recently give some more chickens. Seven hens and a rooster. I already have 16 hens and a rooster. Will it be a problem with more than one rooster. Both roosters are about 5 months old.
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    Any tips for hunting Fox?

    I lost several birds this summer. One night I take my dog out and see a fox. Naturally I assume that this is what is happening to my birds. The fox would comeback almost every night. Everytime I would see him I would go back inside to get a gun and comeback and it would be gone. Then I got a...
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