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    2 yr old rooster has gone psycho

    I had a roo...whose name was 'the nasty rooster' who took to attacking me usually when my back was turned. So I tied him up. I put a zip tie on his ankle loose enough to not hurt his leg, but tight enough it would not slip over his foot and used a thin plastic coated fifteen foot cable with...
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    Late Incubation Questions

    I put 20 eggs on lock-down about two hours ago. And I heard peeping too. If I had to guess, from three or four eggs. They are a dry hatch that some of those eggs were almost three weeks old when I started incubating them, and I virtually ignored the incubator. I have an automatic turner in...
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    Alternatives to wood shavings?

    In NC pine needles are often used for landscaping mulch. I use deep bed pine shavings myself for a small flock of eight bantys, but I don't see why you could not try any mulch that is suitable for landscaping...even artificial stuff used as cushioning in kids' playgrounds. If you had the time...
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    Sexed pullets- ya right! *PIC HEAVY*

    Sorry...I think they are way to young to tell yet. No matter the reason for one's opinion...with no reason blind guessing is going to be right statistically half the time.
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    Another M or F?

    I think roo...for the pointy saddle feathers. She looks like a he to me.
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    I think this Cochin is a roo...

    I'm thinking lady chicken...because there are no pointy saddle feathers. I've been told that Seabrights are the only "hen feathered" breed.
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    Neighbor dog attacks and kills Miss Peach -- I'm so lost right now.

    I too...wept for you and Miss Peach. I am so sorry.
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    Dog walker gone wild.

    Great outcome. I have four dogs, I adore my dogs. They are my responsibility. It is my job to keep them inside my fence. Only one I do not trust around my chickens but we work on it, and she is always supervised, or the chickens are locked up. But it is up to me to make sure she never...
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    what kind of creepy crawlies...[NOW I HAVE PICS!!!!]

    Some kind of maggot larvae?
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    Black Snake entering run

    It looks messy but works, and is cheap...get some plastic bird netting. The kind you wrap fruit trees up to protect the fruit from birds. They nose through the holes like they nose through grass and get caught in it...they cannot back out of the holes. I just bunch it up and put it around the...
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    Predator eating eggs?

    bailey'smama Howdy Neighbor!! You are close, 15-16 miles. I don't eat my eggs, I hatch them, or feed them to my four little dogs. When I have too many to give the dogs...then I let the chickens eat them. You'd think this would turn them into egg eaters, but it hasn't. I let them collect...
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    Dog walker gone wild.

    Before anyone goes shooting anything is is one thing to check the dog/chicken laws...and another to check the GUN laws. It is not uncommon to have conflicting ordinances. You may have the right to shoot some 'predator' attacking your poultry on your property, but not have the right to...
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    Predator eating eggs?

    I'd say snakes too...I have a big snake problem. When there is yolk residue, it is usually a chicken that ate it. When snakes get my eggs, they eat them all. Terry in Tennessee
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    I guess Snakes...or the Rooster? UPDATE

    Thanks everyone...I'm betting on a snake too...maybe a smaller one then the three huge rat snakes I've caught over six feet long...so maybe that's why it didn't eat them all. I caught one last month still in the nest box where it had eaten nine eggs...or that's how many were in there the night...
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    I guess Snakes...or the Rooster? UPDATE

    I had a new mommy hen with four of them tiniest, perfect little chicks you ever saw about five days old. They were in an outside pen, covered. No four legged animal could get into it...not without leaving evidence anyway. So my dog (who I supervise) and no stray (my entire perimeter is fenced)...
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