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    POLISH ROOSTER with STANDARD HENS?????

    My polish roo (Napoleon) is in with all the others and he doesn't have a problem with his head feathers his problem is with his tail feathers. Without his tail feathers he looked like someone forgot to finish the cartoon picture! He was not well accepted by the flock even though they grew up...
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    Falcon vs Chickens - Chickens WIN

    A happier note; my husband was painting the barn/coop at my daughters house where my girls live and heard a large racket in the pen, he went to see what the commotion was about and to his surprise he saw the girls attacking a small falcon! It had found a way through a dip in the overhead net and...
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    Failing in Introduction of new birds

    Recently I have combined 2 flocks of 11 and 13 I haven't seen any problems at all. What I did, after reading all the advice here, was to put them in a yard seperated by a fence with a seperate outside shelter. I left it that way for 3 weeks. They were 8 wks when they moved there and still...
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    sadly, I am stupid

    Today my husband told me he found a hawk sitting on the gate to the little girls side of the chicken run THANK GOODNESS we had put deer net over the top!!!!!! I've already lost 2 to a hawk before moving them to the "big house"! We have 2 different kinds of net one from Tractor Supply this year...
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    First loss to predator

    I too have lost 2 6wk old chicks to a hawk. It ended up inside the coup after killing one in the yard and my husband found it tearing up another in the coup. It had to walk through a caged small pen and in the small door where it proceeded to commence on it's meal...
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    Over 'active' RIR roo, 9 bare backed hens- Let him live?

    I love the gym! I am afraid to get rid of the roo for fear the flock will go into shock! I think I'll find a gym of my own and make some saddles. I've ordered some pick stuff too....Gotta get the girls some feather winters a comin'
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    Over 'active' RIR roo, 9 bare backed hens- Let him live?

    My poor ladies, my jersey giant is so darn naked I'm thinking of buying her a coat for winter. She appears to be the favorite and is jumped constantly by the RIR and a very dumb polish (Napoleon by name). I just don't know how to fix this. Everyone of the girls looks like she's been rode hard...
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    Aaarrrgghhhh...my GP puppy turned predator!

    My daughter and her great dane (5 yrs) were visiting a friend where the neighbors chickens would come over. Jed would kill them if he caught them. They cured him by taking one of the chickens he killed and tied it to the electric fence. When he grabbed that one well lets just say he went...
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    Lost first hen today

    I recently lost two little girls (8wks) an EE and a buff orp. to a hawk. I had them behind my house in the "growing up coop" that's 4' x 6-8' long divided half with a house with a lift roof and a door into the chicken wire enclosed little yard. The wire short side has a flip up door to let them...
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    Just another chicken lover here

    Well Hello! I have to say it's nice to be among kindred spirits, lol... My chicken affair began some 53yrs ago when I was just a bitty thing and sick as a dog. My grandfather gave me a chick when I was sick and I loved that little thing. Turned out that my Mother didn't and gave it to the...
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