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    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    My cat after babysitting my 12 chickens for six months helping me heel them into coupe yowl to tell me when one was loose etc..well he's killed three now in 4 days didn't know till caught him with fourth and they are big birds.. No bodies I've found none but I had to beat him off my nh red...
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    Chicken crowding problem solved

    Lots of ventilation and it's superb.. Didn't even have to shoo em in they all went in just before dark totally abandoned their prior preferences and now don't want to come out lol.. But they do... No pics of outside yet but oh they love it.. Laying area I busted butt lol
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    Chicken crowding problem solved

    No more chickens in the trees no more chickens on back side of coupe yup it was too small it was the first coupe built for them for their five WK old bodies so when 12 grew up it was crammed.. lol so glad it was warm then and I'm sadly missing two chickens I don't know why but it's been since...
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    N woods farm How many have these animal phenomenon and genius animals our goings on

    Part 1 chapter 1... intro.. To Oh i have so much cool stuff to talk about n show u with my super smart flock of chickens that I'm having so much fun with and I'm raising for Cockerel six months old now n all get along real good they all bow to me at any random time u will see me with a rooster...
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    Hen is incredibly sick (gape worm)??

    Best cure even over expensive needs 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar to one gallon of water test one wk month but if it's a problem like it sounds treating every water she drinks with apple cider vinegar seriously saved six of mine to gape feather loss no eggs take Combs waddles and neck stretch and...
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    12 chickens Bow to their queen

    Walk out on to mydeck if I'm in sight of my flock iI have 12 chickens all squatting (I my call it bowin to the queen lol me) my alpha Cockerel my shyest most scared hen and 2 other cocks now can be handled and treated like ple all are super friendly non aggressive think they my babies lol.. Hens...
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    Chickens outside at night

    Yes size is an issue.. Working in winter coupe actually attaching to outside of camp safest place away from winds and 40 below (cat door will funnel heat with a screen to prevent entry it won't be allot of heat but it will help(my chicken herder cat Olliver doesn't do outside in winter and if so...
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    Egg delivery to my kitchen?

    Oops misspell above all the other hens were showing the other (not shooting lol)
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    Egg delivery to my kitchen?

    No longer allowing to lay in kitchen!!! Do not advise it even tho super cool at first then the hens laying inside the house were shooting the others.. Update: they are all laying where they should outside in the laying boxes... Lol.. Ugh.. Super loud after laying three doing it by nine and...
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    Chickens outside at night

    I love in northern Maine already only 40 degrees at night and I have two roosters that have taken to a tree at night not too bugged about it since it was warm until tonight.. They are still in the tree my other 10 (half insist on roosting on the outside of coupe but I fetched them all i...
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    Golden comet first egg 13 wks

    Yeah I really checked hatch date rechecked then checked again just barely 13 wks and her first egg and I know new layers are more apt to lay double yolks in the beginning but this one has been banging then out since day one.. If say average over half of the eggs have been double yolks..
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    I'm their rooster !!!!

    You are my new favorite person.. Thank u..lol..I do want to share this stuff my chicken herding cat Olliver has a FB page olliver the chicken herding cat and he really watches over them like livestock dog lol
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    Golden comet first egg 13 wks

    I had to look at the hatch date I had to double-check and triple-check and then the next day go back and recheck again to see that it had only been 13 weeks and sure enough I have a hen that started laying at 13 weeks she is a golden Comet her sister started at 14 weeks and I have two New...
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    I'm their rooster !!!!

    No joke... But someone forgot to tell them u have four roos girls.. I have a community of 12 chickens all different breeds most of them being black australorps I only have one blk aussie hen I have three black Aussie roosters that fromom boughtm Tractor Supply as a straight run not sexed and...
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    Egg delivery to my kitchen?

    Not mine.. They all found me in am like stalked me and then laid next to me on the floor lol I only made them a box.. funny tho they are looking in weird places too I woke up yesterday morning with a dog behind my legs ache at in front of my stomach and two chickens p(one my biggest austrolorpse...
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