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    Has anyone let their chickens flesh out an animal hide?

    We just slaughtered our 1st cow and gave the head to the chickens to clean. I was going to freeze the hide til I had time next summer to flesh and tan, but a coworker who has hunted threw out a suggestion of letting our chickens flesh the hide for us. A light went on in my head!!!! What an...
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    Wasp & Chicken Coop - Help!!

    Do you know what kind of soap he used???
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    Hens scratch their beaks on the ground?

    I've seen mine do it on the wrung of a roost...the last time, she was attempting to get up on the top wrung with 3 others and one of my Polish was pecking at her...she looked like she was readying herself for a good ol' fight! LOL
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    Is this Molting or being picked on

    ~~Of our 6 hens that are about 10 months old, we have 2 Giant Jerseys. One of them has a bare neck & the other is missing feathers in the same spot. I've read that usually, molting happens between 12-18 months, but I've also read here it could happen at about 12months + or -.... what do you...
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    Do all chickens HAVE to roost?

    We have a banty rooster that we've separated from our hens because he came to us with a hurt leg and it's just not healing by having him in our hen house that is elevated...so we've separated him in another little run with a hut that is ground level. A coworker wants to give us 3 Polish hens...
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    Post your FIRST EGG pics!

    This was back on Sept 27...we now are getting 3-5 eggs a day from our 6 girls!
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    lame Rooster

    We were given Lamonte about 3 weeks ago. He's a Bantam rooster. His previous owner thought he had hurt his foot hopping off of a roost...then he started getting picked on by her other 2 roosters. They pulled his head feathers out and gave him a nice sore on the top of his head. We kept him...
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    Introducing a rooster to my hens

    Hi, I've been here lurking but having said much... We have 6 hens (1 RIR, 2 Giant Jerseys & 3 Americanas). They are about 7 or 8 months old. A coworker gave us a rooster that is a Bantam Cochin who is the same age. She gave us the rooster because she had 3 and the 2 older ones started to...
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    Can Chickens eat pumpkin

    Wayne! What a great idea! I think I'll get my girls a whole pumpkin to work on! It will beat them digging holes in their pen! Thanks for the idea!
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    Hello from NM!

    Hello All! I'm Kathy...I've been browsing this site for a couple of months now. We just got our girls this week, so I guess I'm a chicken Mom now! We have 6 hens to start...they are all about 4-5 months old. We have (1) Rhode Island Red, (3) Americaunas & (2) Big Blacks I'm not sure who is more...
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