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    Embarrassing, but... rodent problem

    Oh goodness! I used to be notified whenever someone commented on my posts, but not this time! Thank you all SO much for commenting, I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner! Looks like we're doing poison then. They gotta go. Although, I might use the rodent problem as an excuse to get a cat! To do the...
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    Embarrassing, but... rodent problem

    Okay, so this is extremely embarrassing, but I think we have a rodent problem where our meat rabbits are housed. I went out there tonight to check on them and I got freaked out my something black and fast moving in their area. Our rabbits are kept three feet off the ground and I know the rodents...
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    Not Laying Due to Bullying?

    We live in an area that has many hawks. So we can only let them free range for about an hour each day and that is with us watching them. I really don't think that they are laying elsewhere although I guess it is still possible. Here is a recent picture of them. Do you want something closer of them?
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    Not Laying Due to Bullying?

    No, sorry, I was a little confusing. My Rhode Island Red is already laying and she is a lot older than my other three girls- a Buff, Barred Rock, and an EE, who are not laying. There isn't any physical damage so thats good.
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    Not Laying Due to Bullying?

    I currently have 4 chickens. 1 is already laying. My buff Orp is 28 weeks, My EE and Barred Rock are 23 weeks old and none of them are laying. My neighbor said that their Buffs were bullying their younger set of chickens and not allowing them to lay. Once they got rid of their Buffs their...
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    Please Sex My Chickens!

    OH NO!!! ha ha Shoot! This is NOT good. Roosters aren't allowed here. Great. It really stinks to have put so much work into raising girls for them to be mostly boys! Man. They were advertised as being sexed. I just don't know how common it is for a home breeder to take "exchanges"...
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    Please Sex My Chickens!

    So, I am a novice. I have a flock of 9 and they were supposed to all be pullets. But some of my "girls" are looking a lot more masculine to me. I thought they would all be pullets but if they aren't, what is the proper protocol for getting new girls. Is that bad? So, first off Mary (2...
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    HELP! SICK 10 week old hen- Only stands still and drinks with closed eyes

    Good to know! Thank yall so much. So I dust my girls, but spray the coop and everything? How liberally should everything be sprayed? And it Sevin the same as Poultry Dust?
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    HELP! SICK 10 week old hen- Only stands still and drinks with closed eyes

    Thanks for your advice and replies everyone! I was checking her out all over and I found that she is COVERED in these fast crawling tiny bugs that are a tan color. Could they be lice? I have no idea where she would have gotten them. Could lice be causing this kind of a reaction?
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    HELP! SICK 10 week old hen- Only stands still and drinks with closed eyes

    I have a 10 week old Buff Orphington who stands under the waterer and drinks. She has stayed there the most of today with her eyes closed. Just standing still. Every minute or so she will get another drink but I haven't seen her eat anything. The rest of the flock just leaves her alone. I don't...
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    Hen is sick but I'm not sure

    *FOLLOWING* My chickie is doing the exact same thing- but we are just starting summer here. She only sits by the water bowl with her eyes shut and drinks. She is only 10 weeks old and I am worried about her and my 8 other chickies...
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    Am I doing this coop design correctly?

    Hey. So I'm new to chickens and new to building a coop. I need to know if I am doing this right. We are on a tight student's budget and so I'm building the coop with scrap wood that has been laying around the yard for a couple years, so it isn't pretty. But here is the old shed that we are going...
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    Help! Help! Dog attacked my chicks!!

    Please tell me what to do! My dear, sweet, loveable, three year-old left the door to the garage to get into the brooder open and one of our puppies had a hay day playing with my chickies! They are all somewhat wet from either the water that was spilled in the process of her getting into the...
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    Hello! I'm New!

    Hello all you chicken people out there! I'm a SAHM with 4 kids 5 and under, 2 puppies, and we now own 9 chicks! We have 2 Barrasdupre Ameraucanas (Nugget and Nuggita), 2 Easter Eggers (Olive and Juicy), 2 Black Australorps (Mary and ______), 2 Buff Orphingtons (Miss Hannigan and Chick-a-dee) and...
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