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    Brown Egg Laying Chicks - New Jersey

    do you still have any chicls? (and where in Jersey are you?) I'm in NY but could reach northern Jersey quite easily.... It would have to be soon, as I'm looking to slip some chicks under a broody mama.. you can email me at Berber AT web4.org Thanks, Bernadette
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    Chickens let lose in the garden..

    Two solutions: One- supervised visitation to the garden.... try letting them out twenty minutes before they usually go to roost... they'll have the time of their life running around... but will head back to their roost at bed time (you might want to make sure you train them a little first...
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    Chicken attacked neck open pictures!!Help please!

    Oh, hun... that doesn't look good at all. We've had run-ins with those nasty opposums too.... I am so sorry. I have seen with my birds that chickens have an incredible ability to heal. (Had one with a huge chunk taken out of her flank and I cleaned her up (used squirt bottle with warm...
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    Perplexing fatal injury

    thanks, I'm sorry I lost her too... I really thought that their new home would be safe for them... I'll have to go on a rat attack...
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    Perplexing fatal injury

    the pen is solidly constructed of quarter-inch hardware cloth, so nothing could reach in. the run has a "chicken door sized" opening in the middle of one side of the pen that butts up to the coop's chicken door. The walls of the pen and the coop are pretty much flush with each other, except...
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    Perplexing fatal injury

    Hi. Haven't posted here in years. I got some new chicks last spring that have just started coming in to lay over the past month. I wet out this morning and one of the girls had some flecks of blood aroud areas on her face. I looked her over and it didn't seem very severe... I went on with...
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    Fat on turkeys/chickens

    I've read about connections between Soy and fat (in animals and peeps)... plus the pelleted feed is made up mostly of corn and soy... plus, it's the time of year for animals to put on some weight for the winter...
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    Eating while free ranging, not eating much layer pellets

    A long time ago in a land far far away.... chickens were not fed by people... and they foraged for all their food! I think I'd start eating clover if it was it or those layer pellets!
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