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    antibiotics...where can you get them??

    What kind of antibiotics do you need - do you know? If you do know then find out what disease humans get that needs treated with that antibiotic, check out the symptoms and go to your doctor. While they are not supposed to prescribe antibiotics without determining the actual bacteria causing...
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    Average Hatch Rate Thread

    I would go for 5 of 11 (although perhaps dropping one should make it 5 of 10). It's up to you if you want to count the infertiles that you disposed of or not.
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    Average Hatch Rate Thread

    96% is pretty awesome. None of my hens are due a hatch for a week or so, there's too many looking after chicks at the moment. I was hoping the August Hatch A Longers would chip in with their data too.
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    I Hate Flies!

    I have another vodka based vanilla recipe that stops flies bothering you. Take your three vanilla beans, put them in a drawer. Open the bottle of Vodka. Consume vodka (a mixer if your own choosing could be added) until the point when you can no longer see, hear or feel the flies. Repeat as...
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    why do they call it a vent?

    The real name for the opening is cloaca. The term vent is probably used because cloaca is not at all an obvious word (it's latin for drain pipe I think) and 'venting' meaning to push or allow something out requires a vent to push/allow something out of and everyone knows that. I think it's...
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    Lost 8, EIGHT hens yesterday...

    Sounds like they are reasonable neighbors who accept it was their dog without actually accepting it was their dog if you know what I mean, so perhaps give them and their dog another chance at being neighborly. But I wouldn't give them more than one more chance - after all with only two birds...
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    More than one a day?!

    They should lay every 26 hours roughly, so seven from five in twelve or so hours seems odd. Is it possible that there were three eggs laid yesterday, somewhere close by, and one of the hens has collected them all together. They do like to collect up eggs and keep them in one big pile and they...
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    Lost 8, EIGHT hens yesterday...

    As you are in Texas isn't it OK to shoot things that bother your livestock? Dogs are a pain once they've found the joy of chickens. They just can't resist. If you've got a gun I'd just sit and wait for it - if you've got a pickup sit in the back of the pickup near the coop - dogs hardly ever...
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    to cull or let be? **photos added**

    She looks bright enough; bright clear eyes, good color, alert. Do you know if she is an old bird? The black marks on her comb look like old peck marks that are healing. Does she get bullied by the others? Or do you have a cockerel that has taken too much interest in her? I'd clean up the poop...
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    training chickens for voluntary flight

    Quote: Sorry, I missed this bit of your post. We don't do it but a lot of people here do. They say you should clip both wings to retain the balance and give some ability to fly to evade predators, even two or three feet of vertical flight up a tree is enough to get away from a dog or cat, a...
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    training chickens for voluntary flight

    You might find that on a football field he'll prefer to run because it's easy to run on nicely mown surface. The ones here tend to run up our driveway (concrete), if they feel the truck is 'herding' them. They take flight when they decide it's better to get off the road and fly over the meadows...
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    creepy people

    Never judge a BYC thread by it's topic ! This is great reading. I'm of the view that life is easier when you do judge books by their cover. If the cover interests you you'll know in the first few chapters if it's going to be good, if not then dump it. If you keep going to half way and then...
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    My rooster likes the other rooster.. TOO much ??

    I think you might've gotten lucky, well Al seems to have at least. To get jumped by two roosters and get away without a good kicking, he's been a lucky boy. He might not be thinking that right at the moment of course but had he had the poop beaten out of him rather than...err... pushed in as it...
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    Dog Attack - Need First Aid Advice

    I'm a big believer in kill or cure remedies in this sort of situation. While I'd be tending towards culling because of the smell and the maggots and the possibility of rotten tissue internally, if you have an alternative (medicine) what is the worst possible outcome? Death - which pretty much...
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    Facial Swelling in Hen

    Could be a sting - you could try some steriod cream (hydrocortisone) on the fleshy bits that are swollen and see if it helps reduce the swelling, obv. not on the eye though. Could it be a peck on the eyelid from another chicken and it has become infected, although it doesn't look like a normal...
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