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    ***Chickensitting Thread!!!***

    I can doing chicken sitting in Fayette County and Coweta County GA - I do pet sitting as a side business. This would preferably be on the north end of the counties..... This would be for a fee - but I am reasonable.
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    Orphaned chick

    I hope this one isn't a roo either - I already have one too many....the tail feathers are already showing and according to someone a hen shows tail feather early - I'm hoping it's a girl - if not I'm going to have make a hard decision about at least one rooster.
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    Orphaned chick

    The chick is outside in a large rabbit cage and the hens are wandering around it all the time. When it gets bigger I'm going to put it in that run I mentioned - it's fully fenced with chicken wire (except the top - so it could fly out ) - I'm going to do this on a day when I'm home and keep an...
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    Orphaned chick

    Poor baby - Thankfully mine was over a week old when it became an orphan and it's so blasted hot here I don't have to worry about the temp - although this morning when I went out to check on it and held it for a bit it was trembling - probably more from stress - it felt warm and it's in the 70's...
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    Orphaned chick

    Thanks for the input - I put her (I hope) outside in a rabbit cage w/poultry netting around it to keep the snakes out - I also put a stuffed rabbit in there and last I looked she was underneath it - so cute. She's eating and drinking all right - and I figure if she's outside w/the other...
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    Orphaned chick

    I posted earlier about a single hatching of a chick - well the mother got killed last night. Now I have one lone chick - my question is how do you stand to listen to plaintiff cheeping because it misses mom - (I have it in the bathroom at the moment and it is eating) and the big question is how...
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    Do they need chick feed

    I didn't realize Tractor Supply had smaller bags. The chick is free ranging with mama and I feed her scratch - that's all I buy for the chickens. I give them wheat bread which they LOVE and give them watermelon and other fruits and sometimes a dove seed mixture on the ground to just scratch...
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    Do they need chick feed

    After hunting for days I finally was able to follow a broody hen back to the nest where I switched out the eggs with infertile ones. 3 weeks later after I assume she has been "brooding" the infertile eggs I was taking her food and water and hear a peeping noise. Sure enough there is a baby...
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    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    I lost one to a possum but I've lost probably over a dozen to coopers hawks.
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    buff orpington chickens and cold weather

    I have a tarp over the kennel wire - so that isn't a problem. But I'm waiting until it gets dark and I'm going to try to cram as many as possible in the coop - if it's dark I can catch them without much problem. They settle pretty fast when I'm cuddling them. It's just too open out there and...
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    How many roos are too many?

    I've had 7 or 8 hens with 2 roosters and they kept the hens without feathers on their backs. It was awful - they were practically bald. And the roosters were fighting - I have one now and one not quite mature who I will give away. (One of my hens went broody and hatched 9 babies - 4 of which...
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    buff orpington chickens and cold weather

    I have 7 full-grown hens who are used to just roosting in the open on top of some dog kennels - they won't go inside them. They are in a fenced area, but it is going to get into the teens the next 3 nights and very windy - I have some tarp around them but they aren't completely covered - I'm...
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    Stupid ordinance

    The guy from the county isn't doing anything to me - he knows I'm not up to code but he said as long as no one complains he's not doing anything. And if someone complains they will have to deal with me turning them in for everything wrong step they make. The chicken food is no longer in the...
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    Stupid ordinance

    The dog food is in the house. That's probably out of the code too! This is just so stupid. As for feeding the chickens cracked corn and crumbles - don't they need that also? They free range but to me they need a supplement to add to all those bugs and stuff. I've got 9 babies and they...
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    Stupid ordinance

    I had the code enforcer out here a couple months ago to see if I could something about the nitwits next door with their 4-wheelers and dirt bikes (no problems lately, but wanted to know my options in case it starts up again) - anyway he informs me that I have to have my chicken food 200 feet...
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