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    How bad is it for dogs to eat chicken poop?

    I just took one of our dogs to the vet for his yearly and mentioned him eating chicken poop to them. The vet said they can get very sick from eating chicken poop. The vets sister has chickens and her dog eats it all the time and has gotten cocci before from it. They can also get salmonella...
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    Leg mites?

    Thanks! I'm hoping it's just a phase like you said. But to be safe, I will start a treatment. I will have to buy castor oil. I only have Vaseline or a myriad of cooking oils. I just read some people bathe in dawn and use neem oil. Not sure how the neem oil works. I am assuming they are spraying...
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    Leg mites?

    I'm in the same boat as the OP. I don't know entirely what leg mites look like. This is our first experience raising chickens and I don't know if they may have leg mites. Not 100% sure if their scales look normal or slightly raised. They seem to be peeling a bit but I don't know if that is...
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    chicken wheezing sounds like breathing is difficult

    Thank you for posting this. I am glad she is getting better! My husband keeps telling me our 11 week old chick is sick because her voice changed. But she doesn't make any noise while breathing and seems to be acting fine. She just kind of sounds like her voice has gotten raspy or goose-like. But...
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    Help? 2 week old chick sounds weird

    I have a 10 now 11 week old RIR that's voice has changed. She sounds a bit "raspy", almost like a goose. We are pretty sure she is a she. She was a sexed pullet that has a smaller comb and waddle then our other one.my husband thinks something is wrong with her but she is acting completely...
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    Jersey Giants thread for pictures and discussion

    Awesome! Thanks so much! i am going to check this out. Yeah, I try to be slow and speak softly but they just seem super neurotic at times. I didn't pick these guys up the day they arrived at the feed store though. I went in 3 days after and they all seemed super spooked in the brooder. I think...
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    Jersey Giants thread for pictures and discussion

    I'm a newbie and decided to get a couple of Jersey Giant chicks to add to my RIR's. I've read that they are suppose to be docile and non-flighty but mine seem super super skittish and "flighty". All they every try to do is fly. They seem extremely skittish compared to the way my RIR chicks were...
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    Have your pullets slept like this?

    Thanks for the reply! That makes me feel a little better hahah
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    Have your pullets slept like this?

    I have been googling trying to see if I can find anyone that has had pullets/chicks sleep like this before. We only have two that are almost 9 weeks now and they choose to sleep like this at night. They are still in a large brooder at night. They aren't in their coop yet. They have a 2x4 roost...
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    Herbs

    http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2015/02/natural-chicken-keping-herbal-mentors.html http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2013/04/herbal-pest-contol-spruce-coop-herbal.html Here are a couple articles from the chicken chick about incorporating herbs into coop and chickens life. I still have chicks...
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    Feeding Organic?

    Yes, I totally agree. I feel like we were ever so slowly going that direction. Hahahaha I hear ya on the waste. My little biddies don't realize how lucky they are. I swear Half their feed ends up on the ground haha
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    Yes, they turned 8 weeks yesterday.. I will keep an eye on her. :Dthanks so much!:D
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    @TheKindaFarmGal RIR 1 RIR 2 (ignore the white on the wings, she side swiped a post that I was staining the other day.) :rolleyes: Thanks for taking a look!
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    Not Sure If You've Got A Pullet Or Cockerel? Click Here! Thread 2

    These are my two 7 almost 8 week old "sexed" Rhode Island Red chicks. They both this past week started growing their combs. Keeping my fingers crossed for hens :D
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    Trying to be a good neighbor

    We are in a suburban neighborhood on a 1/3 acre. We are doing a "mobile coop" but if we needed to make it stationary, I would do deep litter method. I've heard really good things about it. I casually mentioned it to the neighbors when talking to them. We aren't planning on having any roosters...
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