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    Chicken stressed in lock-up because of alligator in yard

    Similar happenings here in coastal SC. When my daughter was about 7 she was on grandmas laptop, she turned and asked "Where are our Alligator pictures, oh nevermind I know... Alligator.com. " She's 26 now and we still laugh about that.
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    Chicken stressed in lock-up because of alligator in yard

    I understand that you can't harass wildlife, and I'd be nervous going near the pool, but if I had one in my pool for more than a day I give the pool a good shock treatment of chlorine. That's not harassment it's normal "pool maintenance". I'm sure it needs it if there's a coon floating in...
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    Cayenne Pepper and Scaring Raccoons

    Hopefully he found something easier somewhere else and lost interest. If not then You are on his nightly patrol and he will keep coming and testing the wire and latches until there are no more chickens, he gets run over, pushed out or killed by a more dominant animal, possibly one of your human...
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    Comment by 'ViKulik' in album 'Cream Legbar'

    Yep, they came in a fried chicken box and we had a severe thunderstorm so I had no power in the brooder. I was keeping them warm with the kerosene lamp.
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    Hello New from SC

    Welcome Jamie, I'm south of you in Beaufort during the week and Charleston most weekends. I have Cream Legbars, and I 3D printed some chicken arms the other day. Coincidence...I don't think so 🤓
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    Looking for mosquito control

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    Rat problem need more advice

    Mix baking soda with corn meal add to crumbles and put it out in your old chicken feeder, the one the rats are accustomed to eating from. The baking soda won't hurt the chickens but will kill the rats
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    Gotta get rid of my chickens, lease not renewed, owner renovating and probably selling. Gotta...

    Gotta get rid of my chickens, lease not renewed, owner renovating and probably selling. Gotta move out by Oct 1st Arg!!!
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    Can chickens lay eggs without calcium?

    I know people who never supplement calcium, it's in the layer pellets and if their egg shells aren't thin then they probably have enough. It's not something running out of for a few weeks or a even month matters as far as I can tell
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    Eggshells as calcium additive

    I save and bake my egg shells and crush them up to put in their feed but not instead of supplying oyster shells. I have never known my chickens to supplement with the oyster. Every now and then when the container ( a small galvanized poultry drinker) gets too much rain water in it I dump it...
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    Maran?

    Of the Black Copper Marans I ordered some are solid black, some have copper feathering coming in and 2 are dilute and look powdery bluish. More likely genetic variation rather than some sort of mix up.
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    Black / Blue Copper Marans Cockerels ??

    I have been pretty sure I had four cockerels ever since I picked them up from the Post Office. The second from the left looks to be the maybe cockerel #5
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