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    The Lone Free Ranger

    A hawk just took care of another of my girls...leaving me with one lone free ranger. I'm trying to decide what to do as we approach winter. I can't get any other birds right now so i'm wondering if she can go it alone through the winter or if i should give her to a friend who has a small flock...
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    "cough"

    I have a golden comet normal in every way except I've heard a slight honking, almost like a croupy cough from her. The book that I have about raising chickens doesn't have info on this nor any other significant disease...and why is that these books that glamourize keeping backyard chickens fail...
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    Introducing new birds to the "flock"

    I find myself with one very lonely golden comet since her two sisters passed on...one from a predator, the other an internal layer. The "lone ranger" isn't happy so I'm getting two birds in a few weeks...about 17 weeks. Any ideas on good ways to introduce them all?
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    Chicken Dead...didn't lay for 3 months

    Interesting about the artificial light...I was overly impressed by the fact that my 3 laid eggs all throughout an Ohio winter. Maybe I'll rethink that. Any other comments about that?
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    Chicken Dead...didn't lay for 3 months

    Thanks...i don't think she was malnourished...she seemed awfully big...unless that's a symptom. She was energetic, too. That's what i can't figure out. Thanks for the reply. good explanation of internal laying too...
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    Chicken Dead...didn't lay for 3 months

    I just found my Golden Comet dead...she hadn't laid for 3 months, but was not egg bound and didn't show any signs of distress. Over the past few days, i noticed she was losing feathers which i considered molting. She still ate, spared for scraps with the others but today, dead. I'm at a loss for...
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    Is this chicken a dud?

    Howling good might have an answer there...she did have some soft shell eggs going for a while....but what is an internal layer?
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    Is this chicken a dud?

    She's not broody...normal behavior in every way...just no egg.
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    Is this chicken a dud?

    This is my second season of chicken "rustling." Started out with 3 birds. One died. Two have carried on, except that one has completely stopped laying eggs...she sits on the nest in the morning for a while (regardless of whether or not the other birds has laid her egg), goes through the motions...
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    Keeping Water from Freezing

    Getting ready for winter and wondering if anyone has any ideas for newbie on how to keep water from freezing...only 3 birds in my coop and i keep a large waterer outside in the run and a waterbottle suspended in the coop.
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    Hawk

    A hawk has found my backyard flock of 3...not a chicken to spare! Hasn't been a problem until now...aside from putting up netting over the run area (small enough to do so), what else can I do to encourage the hawk to look elsewhere for his next meal? I live in a residential neighborhood and my...
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    wintering the flock

    I have 3 golden comets and want to start thinking ahead about how to winter them...the coop i have two tiered. The bottom where they can be on the ground is all screen. The top is solid wood on 3 sides but in the front there is a screen. The floor of the top section is also solid. Great for...
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    What happened?

    I am a couple of weeks into being a new chicken keeper/farmer... whatever you want to call it...although i only have 3 backyard beauties. They are all pullets 18 weeks or so...two have been giving me an egg a day (10AM on the dot!) for a week. The other laid something today that I thought was...
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    What happened?

    oops...new at this.
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    What happened?

    I am a couple of weeks into being a new chicken keeper/farmer... whatever you want to call it...although i only have 3 backyard beauties. They are all pullets 18 weeks or so...two have been giving me an egg a day (10AM on the dot!) for a week. The other laid something today that I thought was...
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