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    Heating Our Coops

    I heat my Coop all Winter...I do use a Ceramic hanging Heater..250 watt red Brooder bulb....My floor of my Coop is sand...The problem with other types of heaters is they cost a lot to run...My Coop is never that warm, it is only warm enough so my water does not freeze...I am in North Central...
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    Heating Our Coops

    There is a problem with the wild bird analogy. Wild birds are free to make their own choices and fend for themselves and nature has set it up so they are able to adapt to local conditions and stick around, or pack up and move (migrate). On the other hand, our birds are confined to the fate we...
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    Heating Our Coops

    I don't want my chickens to suffer in the frigid weather if I can help it. We lost a dear chicken last winter. The poor thing was too skinny due to her position in the pecking order. Soon after her death we added a few heating lamps to our hen coop and one to our rooster coop. The lamp we...
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    Can this cross beak chick survive?

    Our cross-beaked little girl died this winter. R.I.P. Chrissy. What I would have done differently is: made her wear a rubber band kind of brace at bed time while she grew to straighten out her beak-- like braces.
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    temperature/fever

    A chicken's normal temperature average runs from 105 to 109 during the day. Take a human thermometer, lube it up, and gently push it into the chicken's vent. Since their temperature range is so span, it is important to gage their health not only with the result of the temperature, but with...
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    Whats the most humane way to kill a chicken?

    I'm too lazy to look and see if I spelled *humainly, correct.
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    Whats the most humane way to kill a chicken?

    I JUST HAD MY ROOSTERS HUMAINELY SLAUGHTERED. We are proud of the harvest.
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    Male or female please

    F&@$!!!!
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    Male or female please

    I would have posted the photos sooner, but I was boozing and fell asleep. My chickens didn't judge me ahahaha... I couldn't get the black ones. They are less attainable. I will wait for my boyfriend to come and help me.
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    Male or female please

    When I get home I will get some close ups. 'Lord please please don't let most of the white ones be roosters!!' Ugh.
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    Male or female please

    Please help. I am so confused now as my chickens grow older. Are these pullets or cockerels?? They were all born May 12, 2015.
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    OFF TO THE SNAKE FARM!

    Well now, I'm not sure if the one I for sure thought was a rooster is even a rooster! I was sitting inside the run this morning-- relaxing with my chickens-- and I think it's a female! I am taking an educated guess and thinking that different breeds mature and look different then each other...
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    moving ducks from australia to the united states?

    She shouldn't bother right now. We are having an avian flu epidemic that has caused millions upon millions of chickens in the Western states to be destroyed. So far our government has been able to contain the virus to the Western region. Water fowl are the number one carriers of this virus. I...
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    Can this cross beak chick survive?

    Thank you for the hope.
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    Help! Any guesses on gender?

    I have no clue, but thanks to your post I realize that our pullet which we thought was another breed is actually a barred rock!! Now I am questioning the rest of my breeds, mostly the white ones! Thank you.
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