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    My Thoughts on Predators (taken from my post): From the experience of raising chickens a large part of my 50 years: The bad news: I've seen dogs go straight through good chicken wire, bark and scare chickens over an 8 foot fence then kill them, get into a commercial rabbit pen (1x2 welded wire...
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    Celebrities you Hate.

    I don't want to say I hate anybody (except maybe my psycho ex boyfriend...) but I have to say I was REAAAALLLY disappointed to see Lynda Carter on TV a LOOOONG time ago probably the 70's on a talk show. Someone brought chickens (hens) on the show and they were running around loose on the stage...
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    Why do so many of you (us) want roosters?

    I'm glad to hear they do other than protect against me I figured they did, I just hadn't caught em at it like I did the mama hen flying into the air and meeting a hawk twice her size...she flustered the hawk who crashed into the gate on his escape! back in the day...30 years ago...they sold...
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    Why do so many of you (us) want roosters?

    Oh yeah, here's a sneaky way to get your DH on board with the rooster...if you have an incubator, be conveniently away when they hatch!! I had ONE turkey hatch once and my then (now x) DH was there. It imprinted on him, nestled in his lap, etc. Would call with pitiful long peeps when she didn't...
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    Why do so many of you (us) want roosters?

    I love my roos, and have even managed not to kill the evil one that was incorrigable attacking ME. Not the dogs, not anything that truly was a threat. I put him in his own place with his own hen...the RIR roosters are great, no attacks on humans! How do you mean "protect" I really haven't seen...
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    Dirty Eggs for Sale!?

    I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned the walk to the nest box... Since having some trouble with dirty eggs this spring, I began keeping bales of wheat straw handy. I keep straw everywhere the chickens are enclosed. When there is much rain, I liberally sprinkle additional straw in the area...
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    For People In The North East......* Heat Wave* & *Bad Storms*

    If it makes you northern folk feel any better, the thermometer on the bank here in SC yesterday said 103! My chickens are out, figuring out how to keep themselves cool, just as chickens were doing for many years before I ever started raising them. The only thing I noticed yesterday that a hen...
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    snake bane

    I had adult hens (multiple) killed by rats. Took me awhile to figure out what was killing them by eating out their guts while they were on their nests inside a fortress of a pen (12 x 12 beams with multiple layers of wire). A hole in the floor was where the rats were entering and leaving. I...
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    Bringing Back the Barter System

    Re value of used items...I always heard that the rule of thumb for pricing a used item is half of the original, regardless of condition, or less. I sort of use this when shopping. Most retail items are marked up to double what they cost to begin with (for bartering with a shop owner...) My ex...
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    Making a hoop tractor safer from predators?

    I guess my "border" and your "skirt" may be the same thing?
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    Making a hoop tractor safer from predators?

    If you have rocky ground I suppose you may be ok with that assumption about digging but all I have experience with is sand. Around here I have had predators dig under a heavy pen in an hour and take three birds, never a drawn out project that digging in thing. Otherwise I'd have been warned and...
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    Stupid Neighbors Pit Bull (update 2nd neighbors dog attacked person)

    That separating dogs thing can be really really dangerous...I had a person visit my farm who told this story: she said she had taken in a grown Rottie a few days before. She also had a male Chihuahua as a long time pet. The Chihuahua, probably having said a nasty word to the Rottie, was about...
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    Snake identification and removal

    I'm a snake lover too...and there are plenty of us out there to come rescue you and the snake if anybody finds one! Even the poisonous ones! I had such a terrible time with large rats 20 years ago when I housed my chickens in a large old barn that had been used to store corn. The rats ate the...
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    Do Armadillos kill poultry or eat poultry eggs?

    ...and if you don't believe me, you can google armadillos, there are plenty of .edu pages, newspaper articles and wildlife web pages that report the range into SC (uh on the East coast last time I checked?) A professor, Joshua Nixon, in NC is tracking the expansion of armadillos and predicts...
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    Do Armadillos kill poultry or eat poultry eggs?

    Well they do now! I saw them only in Florida when I was a child (the sixties) but I saw a dead armadillo every 5 miles (at least!) on I -20 between Augusta and Atlanta May two years ago. This is not an exaggeration! I've been seeing dead ones on the side of the road since at least ten years ago...
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