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    A Rat???

    Thanx everyone...I got my start here when I won some eggs in some sort of a BYC contest..they were Phoenix and Buff O's. My first hatch, Someday I will pick it up again...with a fresh start.
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    A Rat???

    Well the Rat got my last two birds. I don't really get to attached to my birds but for some reason I got attached, I guess because they were my oddball bunch and so friendly. Anyway I am and was angry, left the carcass in hen house in hopes attracting the rat back, also left a large package of...
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    A Rat???

    I quit with chickens earlier this year but through a string of events I up until last week had 5 fancies 1 Frizzed Cochin and 4 polish Juveniles. All have been happy healthy and growing great. Earlier last week I found two in hen house dead, one had an injury on neck and the other had had its...
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    concrete and chickens

    Thanx, for the replies, i have never had a problem with predators digging in, all my old pens have wire out about 3 ft on the ground, now covered in grass and all pens had tops...my only problem is SNAKES. If I am gonna keep some chickens Its go to be snake proof.
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    concrete and chickens

    OK I am not new to chickens, probably been 12 years since I started. My story...the first of the year I got rid of all my birds due to increased predators, limited free ranging time and peens that needed repair and expanding. I had intentions of tearing all 3 peens and coops down. Flash...
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    In Search of Giant Silkie

    LOL......the first silkies i ever had were given to me as chicks by a dear friend who hatched them. There were 4, 3 white and one black. All turned out to be roosters, and the 3 whites grew as large as my ful size hens RIR. My friend could not get over how large they had gotten, their parents...
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    Premade coop advice needed

    Hello everyone its been awhile. I gave away all my full size hens earlier this year, my pens need to much work( ice storm damage, termites) and I am in middle of a home remodel so no time or $$ for repairs. I was done with chickens until a buddy showed me his pair of Old English Game birds...
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    Chicken laid 3 eggs today?

    It happens sometimes, no real big deal. Had an EE do the same thing, when she was real young.
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    Dark Cornish question

    I have read to conflicting descriptions of Dark Cornish Chickens, one says they are an active bird that forages for itself very well, the other described them as being docile and poor foragers? I believe the first statement to be true, but wanted to check with others on this. Which is it and...
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    Leghorns for meat

    I prefer a smaller bird for meat, I currently buy fryers for baking, broiling, ect. I was thinking of getting 15 white Leghorn Roos from a hatchery, its called the frypan special and mostly let these birds free range in the woods behind my home and shut them up at night in the coop at night...
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    bareback advice needed for new pullets

    yesterday I picked up some pullets from feed store, Rocks and EE. 2 of the EEs have barebacks, i did not really want bareback birds but most of the EE were Bareback< so i took them. Anyway what should i do to help them recover fom the barebacks quickly? So far all i have done is feed a...
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    Do I Need to bury the fence 18"?

    Thats what I did, Mine is about 2 feet out from the pens, over the years it has been "absorbed" by the grass, so it is real easy to mow over. I have never had anything dig into one my pens, but there have been numerous attempts all stopped by the wire under the grass.
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    Do you wear special footwear in your run?

    Nothing say summertime like chicken poop between your toes.
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    Gahh! Fire ants and flies!! Help please :|

    Mix DE in their feed and their litter, it will really help with flies. You can also use it on fire ant mounds. I prefer using boiling water on the FA mounds.
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    Midget Whites and Predators

    OK, finally convinced myself I can butcher a bird, getting a few meat chickens to start and from there want to move to turkeys. I like the size and everything I read about the midget whites...question is predator protection....what is required for turkeys, particularly MWs? I have about an...
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