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    What eats heads off of ducks and Chickens

    I'm in New Hampshire. We have lost some birds to hawks before, this is not a hawk attack. Went right for the neck. Thanks for the thoughts folks.
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    What eats heads off of ducks and Chickens

    Just like title says. Woke up this morning to 3 ducks and 1 chicken with missing heads and a 4th duck with a wounded neck. They are in a 5ft tall chicken wire enclosure. There is no sign of how the beast got in or out of the pen. There is a tree inside the pen whose canopy touches trees...
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    profit from cornish rocks

    We just started raising chickens this year. We raised 2 batches of 25 meaties on organic feed, our feed cost was right at $2.00 per lb of dressed bird. Sold a few for $4lb and a few others to friends for just more than the cost of feed. However I can buy conventional feed for 1/2 the cost...
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    Help...my ducks are frozen in the middle of the pond under the dock!!

    OK so first thing first, I am in love the woman in that picture! 2nd, just had the same thing happen when I went to pickup some ducks some folks didn't want to deal with thru the winter. Darned things wouldn't get out of the tiny unfrozen area left in the pond and we couldn't reach them. May...
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    got pox... now what

    So I have determined we have fowl pox in our flock. I understand there is no cure but now what? Do I just wait and see how they recover.? Is there a point where I am better off to cull? So far I see: 1 roo with some large scabbing on comb. several hens with tiny black scabs One hen with...
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