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    Snake!!!

    I can live with foxes and racoons and diseases and all the other natural things that come with raising chickens, but these snakes have me completely unnerved. I'm too scared to even go in the chicken coop anymore. I've found them under a hen squeezing the life out of her babies. I have gotten...
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    I need a GREAT Peafowl pen/coop layout!

    Peafowls are unlike any other bird you have and this is a wonderful time of year to watch all their antics with mating season starting. I've had mine for about 3 years now and I would suggest when you first get them to keep them penned for 1 year and then let one out while the other is penned...
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    why won't they lay anymore?

    I'm having the same problem too. We went on vacation the end of July and were getting 4 - 6 eggs a day. They had slowed down I have 11 hens and one rooster, but since I got back I haven't had an egg. I don't know if it upset them for the man than watched my chickens I paid in eggs and he...
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    Mystery Predator

    I just lost my Buff Bantam Cochin. Everyone was locked up for the night and she was the only one roosting on the ground (the girls had been picking on her lately), so I left her there and this morning she was close to the same place her head eaten off and just a bit on one side of her wing...
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    heart broken... coyote... my final say

    I was having a terrible problem with foxes taking down my roosters in broad daylight. My uncle an old time cattle farmer told me to get a donkey. Coyotes were getting all his young calves and that did the trick for him. I thought he was out of his mind, but it was the best thing I've ever...
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    tiny egg

    You know I got a couple of eggs like this too. They seemed very porous and one was even empty. What causes something like that? Are they deficient in something? It cleared up so I didn't change anything and they are on a good diet of Layena pellets and free range. Has anyone experienced...
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