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    <---This was Paul! A fox got him unfortunaly We have chickens!This one is Mark, he is crazy --> We have way too many Chickens, well over 80+ and if everything hatched ok and...
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    Contagion the movie

    well, to be honest, I have noticed that most people believe that ALL poultry diseases are a result of back yard flocks, and that they have been eliminated in the big production houses, which a LIE. I have a friend who was raised on a broiler farm with over a 100,000 chickens and everyday...
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    Insulating for winter?

    we have an open coop/run with no walls, only a roof over half, which is great for because of the humidity here in the summer. In the winter, we are making bales of pine straw and stacking them around the walls of the run, and we use the DLM in the fall till spring, which add a lil heat for the...
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    Need advice/help revamping chicken coop.

    Here is what we are looking at... I need to lower my egg boxes and add more roost. ^From outside^ ^from inside and to the left. ^inside from the right. ^straight on view. I want to lower the egg boxes. As you can see, the pallets are holding up the eggs boxes and the roost, but...
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    Buying chickens in Africa?

    yea, I only have a few pets in my current flock of over a 100 birds, I eat them when they stop laying, or if too many are males, etc. I was hoping to get into the breeds I have fallen in love with here, but mutts will do as long as I get me some EGGS! guinea run wild, the same ones I have, I got...
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    Buying chickens in Africa?

    thanks danischi24! I actually also plan on getting to Israel one day but for more personal reasons than my passion for Africa, so it may have to wait till I am old and need to retire. I almost went a few years ago, but went to India instead. Maybe the NEED for some chickens will get me there...
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    Buying chickens in Africa?

    I am planning, and have been planning for many years, moving to Ethiopia/Kenya very soon. I am in love with raising chickens, and I will need to continue doing so as I will be building my own homestead in the bush. I can not import my flock, for many obvious reasons, but are there breeders...
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    one chicken dead a day since Friday.

    ALSO! the first one, I carried her around, she pooped out a large white mass of some kind, it was very stinky, and it stuck all over her, I washed her off and she seemed to do better immediately! I have cooked eggs for the girls everyday since the sickness appeared.
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    one chicken dead a day since Friday.

    I noticed Friday around 3ish that there was a hen, New Hampshire Red, acting sickly. She died early Saturday morning, along with a Black Spanish Turkey, and I found another NHR dead Sunday morning, in a nest box, and I have had two leghorns die, one died on the roost and I found her before the...
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    BRIGHT neon green Pigeon poop?

    I know there has to be a million post about this, but my room mate, Jake, has two homers and a ringneck dove together, and when I went in there to talk to them, (I'm crazy) I noticed there was a lot of neon green poop in everywhere, they have been loosing tons of feathers, but I thought maybe...
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    Goodbye Little Red

    I am so sorry! I've lost my favorite bird, Paul, and a few others, I KNOW how it feels to loose one that you found your self attached too! How do we get so attached to these lil birds anyways?
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    Brand new

    My mom grew up with chickens, and she has randomly gotten the urge to buy some, which has spurred me into the love of poultry and I now tend to over 60 chickens (started with leghorns, then some gold sex links, and now I have Barred Rocks, Silkies, (they already have bred and she hatched her own...
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    should I kill this fox?

    yes, I would have to say I think my chicken pens are pretty safe, I think something would really have a tough time getting in if it did get in at all, but Paul was a wild man who would never go into the coops at night, instead he preferred sleeping in the trees, something I am not going to allow...
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    should I kill this fox?

    thank you all, I kinda knew it had to die, if I get a shot on it, it's gonna have to. I was hoping that a fence or maybe my dogs would keep them away.
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    should I kill this fox?

    (I'm new and I think I posted this in the wrong thread earlier?) I have been wanting to join B.Y.C for a while, I've learned so much from just reading everyone's post and everything, and tonight I decided to go on and join. I have bad news however. We have a large flock of many different...
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