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    My babies ate and killed a mouse?

    Hi, just don't poison your mice it'll kill your chicks if they get one.
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    Too cold for Broody hens?

    The link is http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Broody-Hens-1.html
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    Too cold for Broody hens?

    Great info thanks. While searching for the Old Fashioned Broody thread I came across great information by Harvey Ussery in The Small Scale Poultry Flock. Hi, Great info thanks. While looking for the Old Fashioned Broody thread I found a five part article by Harvey Ussery that is also in his...
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    Too cold for Broody hens?

    I've been looking for this thread! I have a Java who has been increasingly broody for about 3 weeks. Last week she chose a corner of the deep litter coop to make a nest hole there. I filled it with sticks to make it uncomfortable and a few hours later I found she had moved all the sticks and...
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    Sudden aggression after laying resumes

    So sorry you are going through this, the anxiety about the right thing to do is familiar. In addition to Blue-Koting to get rid of the red from blood you can use a clotting agent in spray form, Medifirst and Walmart blood clotting sprays. Google clotting sprays for your best choice. There...
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    Comment by 'Pickychicks' in article 'Utilizing the Parrot Chop Principle to Improve Chicken Diets'

    Fabulous Pictures Phaedra!! Love the idea of collections jars in the fridge and of of planting extra for use as chop to freeze for winter. Reminds me of my kitchen when I fed four RR dogs raw meaty bones diet with Vitamixed veggies. I served chop to my 7 girls today...no way the mature birds...
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    Comment by 'Pickychicks' in article 'Utilizing the Parrot Chop Principle to Improve Chicken Diets'

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    Comment by 'Pickychicks' in article 'Utilizing the Parrot Chop Principle to Improve Chicken Diets'

    I loved the article and will a 'chop' to my nutritional arsenal for my girls. I did have some questions about it though. The veggies are straightforward, water soluble nutrients and great fiber with a nice cross section of vitamins and minerals. But I wondered...the addition of grains is...
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    Hen with persistent diarrhea - vet can't find any obvious cause

    I'm not sure if this will help but generally speaking when there are a lot of things going into a diet and there are digestive problems, my first thing would be to eliminate all supplements in food and water and feed only basic formulated feed for at least two weeks and monitor...
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    Very large nearly all white firm chicken poop.

    ..would settle her down. Seems to be working, but pullet is now used to skirting all the feeding areas. The plan is to help her get a bellyful in the am and then continue to monitor feeding areas until she starts to be less fearful of going for her share. Re/ the java, I concur. Her crop is...
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    Very large nearly all white firm chicken poop.

    Thanks for your reply, backs up most of what I was thinking. I did put in a second feeding station but think I need to put in a third. I have taken to holding the dominant offender in my lap for awhile every day (I don't interrupt her offending, just pick her up when she's generally walking...
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    Very large nearly all white firm chicken poop.

    Early this morning I found a fresh very large chicken poop atop a hay bale in the run. It measured about 3 inches long and 1 1/2 inches high. It had two tiny orange-ish swirls in it and a small bit of darker poop on one end. I was a little stunned see it. My first thought was 'is that an...
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    Find other backyard chicken keepers in your area

    Seeking other backyard chickens folks in Newburyport Ma area
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    Bumblefoot with a 'stem'??

    Thanks to all who replied re/ bumbefoot 'with a stem'. I never got the pic of it. I planned to tie it off at the neck with dental floss and lo and behold it dried up on its own and was easy to scrape off. I have finished up building the new coop and run and there is virtually nothing in there...
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    Bumblefoot with a 'stem'??

    Thank you, love this place. When I first started out, nearly all of my googling chicken questions brought me straight to BackYardChickens for the answers and a ton of great information!
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