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    Hen violently attacked my chicks please help.

    I know it doesn’t sound nice but have had chicks and hens pick chicks. I use to use just bag balm on them and then they regrow the skin and feathers but have missed a couple and found that they healed on their own and couldn’t tell the difference. Supposing it’s a protection mechanism from the...
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    Really watch for predators now

    Do to a sad and greedy situation I lost all my Aussies, being disabled I immediately acquired a new pup, and began training him, that was in July of 2023. After training he saw a groundhog and killed it. Just the other day I was sitting in the drive and could not see around the barn all at once...
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    Really watch for predators now

    So sorry for your loss. I had dreamed of having a small hatchery. So one spring I got together about 300 eggs put them in an incubator and hatched 225 of chicks. Had set up my small 6 x 8” brooder house and enjoyed watching the little guys run back and forth and try to be grown up. Next morning...
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    Really watch for predators now

    For several years ago I raised Rhode Island Red hens. We have many varmin in the area some including bald eagles, ospreys, and red tailed hawks. I was standing in the living room and something caught my eye. It was a mighty large red tailed hawk that had captured a red hen and had taken it about...
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    Really watch for predators now

    I had spotted a Bob cat on my property once when I was night fishing and it let out a dream behind me. Later to find out that a lady up the street was feeding it as it pilfered the neighborhood. Yes contact the game commission!
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    Really watch for predators now

    So sorry for your loss. Having raised chickens for some 60 years I have learned that each hen, rooster, and chick has a personality of its own. I have a small 7.78 acre farmette where I keep rabbits, chickens, ducks, Asian heritage hogs, sheep, a goat, and my buddy an Aussie service dog and farm...
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    Does this bird need to be put down?

    I agree with stopping the peroxide. One of the things I use up front is a drawing agent of milk and bread poultice it draws the poisons and infection out. Then as the area heals I apply go old bag balm which keeps the area disinfected and moist and helps it heal faster. A lot of times if you...
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    I don't have an incubator, but hope to hatch a couple ducklings.

    There was a male duck right?
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    Failed Broody Hen

    The only problem with the hens hatching with the flock is that other hens may lay along side of her and then you get eggs if differ ages and loose the later ones. I like to keep an incubator handy then any that don’t hatch go into the incubator for as long as the brooding hen has been taking...
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    Failed Broody Hen

    I tend to disagreed about setting hens continuing to eat eggs after eating one. It is a way of nature for a hen to clean up around their nest to foil intruders. I have had hens drop eggs on the floor on the way into the nest and still get my daily quota of eggs and donot see signs of egg eating.
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    Failed Broody Hen

    I guess I’m the odd ball but have been raising chickens and yes peeps since I was nine or there abouts. I’m 73 now. Just two weeks ago under cover of night I moved my 4 clucking hens out of the nest boxes they had been in into detachable nesting boxes onto the floor so the other hens could lay...
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    Pastured Hens- tackling with "toxic" plant lists...

    I agree with Clint, I have two flocks of hens with roosters, one set is in the barn with access to the pasture, the other is in the hen house with access to the orchard. Both groups have access to the yard, I have had chickens since moving to the property 40 yrs ago and have never to my...
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    Star of Bethlehem flower and bulb toxic to animals

    I live in western Pennsylvania. When I moved onto my homestead there were probably a dozen or so plants and since I mowed the grass I didn’t think anything about it. Now 40 years later I want to have my flock of sheep mow off my yard and then realized that there were patches all over my front...
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    What did you do in the garden today?

    I like to start fermenting different spring plant to make either a topping for salads and the like or just use up some of the produces which I had stored to much for the winter into usable items for summer like cabbage to kraut, broccoli and cauliflower with ramp and spring onions, adding a jar...
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    Hen can’t lift neck after attacked by fox

    You may want to make a very liquid form of chicken food smoothie much more water than food but get her taking nutrition. Keep her calm and warm.
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