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    i think my bantom is frezeing to death! am i doing things rite?

    I'm glad she is doing better. If it's any consolation, I don't do well in the cold either.
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    Is this a bearded or non bearded Silkie? ( stupid question)

    Quote: Yours is beautiful! I'm green with envy.
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    What mix am I?

    Quote: x2 Extremely handsome and he knows it!
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    Crazy Chicken Owner Sets up Spare room for Shivering Floridian flock

    Quote: I'm your neighbor here in the Tampa Bay Area and I feel your pain - really, it hurts me, RA. I am concerned for my girls too. DH wanted to take my heating pad and put in the coop. Their coop is very protected - totally fenced on 3 sides so I think they will be ok. Ventilated but not...
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    purrrrrrrrrrrrrrring

    Yes, your chicken purrs. So does mine. I have a LB that hops up on my lap to be petted them climbs up on my shoulder (always the left shoulder) snuggles her head in my hair and purrrrrrrs. She has fallen asleep and almost fell off my shoulder before I realized what was going on.
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    How come my chickens are scared of me?

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    Citris fruits...

    We were given lots and lots of oranges by a neighbor - they were delicious but we couldn't eat them all. I cut them in half and the girls loved them. I don't give them oranges every day though. I don't think I would feed them lemons or limes though.
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    Home Feeding Ideas and Solutions Discussion Thread

    Quote: This is off topic a bit and I promise not to do it again, but I see that you keep bees. My dad used to have bees but the chickens would eat so many of them that he was constantly replenishing. Do you have a problem with that? Again, I apologize but curiosity got the best of me.
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    I think I know, but need for you to tell me

    Mine ate chicken soup but picked out the carrots and celery. The only way to get them to eat carrots is if they are shredded and as much as I love my girls (and their eggs) I won't shred carrots for the little darlings. They like leftover chicken salad, roasted chicken, white chili. No problems...
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    Rats!! Get 'em girls!!

    Quote: Thanks. There is a tree where I think the rats have nested - right in the run. I suspect that the rats have been there longer than the chickens, however. No matter who has been there the longest, I want the rats gone gone gone... and they can take the mosquitoes with them.
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    PLEASE HELP cats using my garden for their toilet!!!!!!!!!

    Moth balls - no you don't have to catch a bunch of moths and pull their little.... The kind like grandma kept with the winter clothes. The smell seems to be very offensive to cats and will deter them. I have an indoor cat, neutered and when we have the windows open the neighbor's cat will come...
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    Fire ants nest in chicken cage..

    My dad raised fowl of some sort all my life, the last being guineas before he passed away. Living in Louisiana, there were always fire ants. He would take a shovel full from one mound (colony) and put it in another colony and continue introducing "foreign" ants into each colony and they would...
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    Rats!! Get 'em girls!!

    When I opened the coop this morning out came my girls in typical form; wanting to see what I had brought them to eat and to be petted. As I was bent over putting down the oatmeal out of the coop came a very "henpecked" rat. It was so disoriented and suffering from blood loss (I HATE rats) that...
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    Obsessed with Snakes in the Coop -- want pics!

    We have all kinds of snakes here in Florida. I live in town, in a large subdivision just off a main road and I have seen all sorts of snakes in my yard; black racers, coral snakes, worm snakes, pine, etc. For several years, we had a black racer that sunned on our sidewalk just outside the front...
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    What kind of shoes do you wear out to the chickens?

    I have an old pair of New Balance slip ons that I keep by the back door. Whatever I'm wearing I slip off on the mat and slip in to old slip ons. Don't have to worry about snow, etc. but do have to put on socks on days like today... it's 62 degrees.
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