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    Weird hen

    Thanks for your reply! The bedding is fir shavings. There is a fake egg in there she leaves alone. I think you are right it has to be broken for them to eat it. She still manages to boost it over the barrier occasionally. I am keeping the shavings on the floor deep enough to cushion that egg...
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    Weird hen

    I have a Cuckoo Maran hen who lays well and is a pet, but lately she has been kicking her egg out of the laying box so it falls and cracks and they eat it. It's the only egg in her favorite box so she is the one doing it. I put a barrier in front so it's harder for her to get it out, but what...
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    Moving 15 hours away

    Driving all night should do it.
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    Do you spoil

    I get funny looks and laughter in this ranching community when I consult the vet. I sprout grain for them and they are free range on at least an acre. They have a tub in the chickenhouse for dust bathing and a weekly change of pine shred bedding. Every day they get kitchen scraps and it is...
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    Do you spoil

    I live in a ranching area where chickens are just stock. I get funny looks and laughter when I take one to the vet!
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    Can a dog and chickens safely coexist in a small backyard?

    We have had several dogs that got along well with chickens.The secret was to make an impression early. A beagle sounds like a bad choice as they are hard to train anyway, and this one is too old. My biggest problem has been other people's dogs that race through and decimate my flock.
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    Quitters!

    I have 20 hens. I sprout organic wheat for them and sell the eggs. During the winter II put a light on a timer so they had 14 hrs. They began laying so many eggs I couldn't sell all of them, so I turned off the timer. After a few weeks my demand had grown, so I turned it back on. Nothing...
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    Predator took all 5 hens last night! I feel horrible!

    Everything loves to eat chickens! I am near the wilderness and plagued with skunks, raccoons, coyotes and weasels. The worst of these are domestic dogs who kill for sport and leave injured hens behind, or weasels that only suck blood from heads and necks and leave a whole, dead chicken. Weasels...
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    Odd eggs

    I have two Minorcas. Recently one laid an egg like this, and then they quit laying. There is nesting behavior but no eggs!
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    Size of pullet eggs

    When do the pullet eggs get bigger? I have a new flock this year. One of my sex links already has a double yolk, but even those eggs are small.
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    My favorite Hen has Bumblefoot

    It is an infection. If the soaking doesn't help or the cysts get bigger they will lance them and give antibiotics. She is to be isolated and not supposed to jump from heights.
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    My favorite Hen has Bumblefoot

    What is the recommendation for treating this? The vet says I need to soak her feet 2x day with Epsom salts and Betadine. ine.
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    poop-free waterers

    I had a metal waterer over a heated dog dish, but it got too cold this winter. And then there is the pooping problem. So...I got a big heated plastic red&white job, big enough to serve my 26 chickens. And...I figured out a poopshield. What you do is, you get a large dog-neck cone from your...
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    If you could add two chickens to your backyard flock what would they be?

    Some of my chickens are getting old, so I'd probably like a couple sexlinks for their big eggs, a Brahma for huggability and some easter eggers to add variety to the colors in the carton. For beauty, a partridge or phoenix rooster, and for dependable lay-til-you-die eggers, the leghorns. For...
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    Expensive food while they're not laying?

    I guess I worded that badly. My questions is, are they growing organically empowered eggs inside while resting in the winter? I get a better price for my eggs rest of the year because they are free range and fed sprouted organic grain and organic layer, which are expensive and time-consuming.
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