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    male or female???

    thats what i think but i dont know why its so small for supposedly being a rooster. the father of this chick was really big. he was probably up to my knees or a little bit higher. there were other chicks that hatched with this chick but they werent thai chicks though. my brother said it might be...
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    male or female???

    i have a thai chick and dont know if it's male or female. it hatched on jan 22. im really hoping it would be a male since i dont have a thai rooster of my own. got this chick from some eggs i got from my uncle. my guess is, its a female since some of the chicks physical characteristics seem like...
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    McMurray's New Shipping Practices...has anyone heard about this?

    i think my brother ordered 25 modern game chicks from them. got the chicks about two weeks ago and they were fine. not sure when it was shipped though.
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    What in the world is eating my eggs during the day

    Quote: we did that. put some eggs inside a skunk trap. the eggs were gone but didnt catch anything. my guess is, its rats.
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    How do you safely keep chickens and dogs?

    i got my dog used to being arounds my chickens. put him on a leash and took him with me to go feed the chickens. whenever it looked like he wanted attack one i would pull the leash and say no. after awhile he got used to the chickens and hasnt chased or attacked any since then. here and there he...
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    Any ideas what can make 9 chickens disappear in 4 1/2 hours?

    it could be that since youve just built a new coop for them, they dont know that the coop is their home yet so they just wandered off and when nighttime came they went and hid inside bushes or something like that. most likely they got attacked by a predator at night while hiding in their spot. i...
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    how do we stop rats?

    theres a rat poison in some stores that kill rats but wont kill your chickens if the chickens eat it. not sure what brand it is but my uncles uses it to kill rats that get inside his chicken houses. however, we have rats that run around our coops too but we've never experienced a rat killing a...
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    What killed my chickens?

    its either a racoon or opossum. same thing happened to my grandma's chickens except it came late at night. killed about 15 of her chickens within 2 days. same situation as yours, all dead one chomped in the rear. we never actually caught it in my grandmas chicken coops but we went out and bought...
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