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    Injured chick

    Well it is satisfactorily resolved after 48 hrs. For those interested, I took her inside the next morning as she was weak and essentially blind. I handfed her yolk on a spoon and water dropper of H2O with ACV + arnica & aconite homeopathics every few hrs (whenever she started chirping loud). (If...
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    Injured chick

    My cackle batch arrived yesterday (hatched Weds 3/23, arrived 3/25). That afternoon, my 6 yo kid left the brooder coop open and a blue jay snatched a chick (barred rock). I heard the distressed chirping after a while and managed to get her back in the coop under the mother hen brooder. One eye...
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    Help me get rid of my nightly visitors!!!!!

    Poisoning rats ends up poisoning other animals in the ecosystem that feed on them like eagles, owls and hawks and other predators. Poisoned rats may get trapped in places that are hard to remove them. Nothing worse than decomposing rats in the crawl spaces. Snap traps are more humane. As a...
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    Gravel or sand?

    @alexis187 I use a pond liner as a barrier. If the ground is wet, this will keep the bedding dry in a roofed area. Best, only costs $25 for 10x20 and no trench digging or concrete pouring! For bedding I use all purpose construction sand (coarse sand) with zeolite (neutralize ammonia) and...
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    Fairview, CA (Unincorporated Alameda County) ordinance

    Oh sure. Wherever it belongs most, keep it there. Wherever it does not belong, please delete. Thanks!
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    California - Northern

    I will tell you this shelter in place bidness really through a monkey wrench into my chick acquisition. The feed store in San Leandro had sporadic chick days and insane lines. I spent four hours in line to get 2 Buff Orpingtons and 2 Black Australorps and no Brahmas (they were shorted, and in...
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    Fairview, CA (Unincorporated Alameda County) ordinance

    Oh okay. My first post on this ordinance was in the Chicken Laws articles section. I should probably delete one of these, but which one and I couldn't figure out how to delete the article.
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    Wacky Chicken Songs!

    I see your La Gallina and present to you, the Muppets.
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    Home grown meaty weights?

    Did you end up tracking this? I am wondering at what age my Orpingtons, Australorps (and soon) Brahmas will be big enough to use the treadle feeder (which is 1# minimum).
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    Wacky Chicken Songs!

    Laurie Berkner Band "I know a chicken"
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    Gophers

    Was so busy forgot to post pix of the chickies in the outdoor brooder. I notice they were feathering almost immediately. 2 buff orpingtons and 2 black australorps. I waited FOUR hours in line at the feed store. And the hatchery shorted them the brahmas (plus they inplemented limits given the 50+...
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    Switching brooders drama

    @PDXJULES You mean like a chicken sing-a-long? :woot I only know one chicken song - The Laurie Berkmer Band's "I know a chicken". :jumpy supposedly there are alot of old timey folk songs about chickens? My tech savvy does not extend to livestreaming anything.
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    Comment by 'NguyenjaStars' in article 'BYC Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)'

    Click on the More Options icon ellipsis (three dots) next to watch/unwatc.
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    Fairview, CA (Unincorporated Alameda County) ordinance

    Wait, did I help with a project? What project?
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    Switching brooders drama

    omg I thought I was just imagining that my chicks would all settle down and take naps when I sing a song with my ukulele!
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