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    Devastating loss. Graphic pictures please help!

    its been my expeirence that a wound like that was done by a fox, however you said this was during the day and she doesnt look like she was trapped where he couldnt carry her off.I did lose a hen to an owl a few weeks ago but the owl had wrang its neck to kill it. and a week later the owl came...
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    Comment by 'wesleyd' in article 'My Feathered Pets'

    Tamborina has finally started laying again. thats the first 2 eggs I have gotten from any of the hens in 2 months. i know that the daylight hrs being shorter has a lot to do with it. I have another hen named White Chick. she was attacked by something here back in August and had a big gash in the...
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    Comment by 'wesleyd' in article 'Ferdinand the Rooster'

    im glad you rescued Ferdinand. sorry for your loss but as to poison its impossible to kill a chicken by ingesting poison due to the design of their digestive system. Farmers used to put lye in their water to control parisites unfortunatly it would pass into their eggs and you couldnt eat the...
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    My Feathered Pets

    These are my Birds that I have been recently raising. some started out as city slickers and became country. now I dont know the breeds of all of them and would like your help identifying them. some of the hens were originally mine when i lived in San Angelo TX. about the time i moved out to my...
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    Chicken Breed Focus - Hedemora

    wow i actually have this breed 1 beautiful rooster and 5 hens. they were rogue and people were wanting them gon or dead in their neighborhood. it was hard to catch them i didnt get them all but i rescued 5 and brought them to my farm. oneof them had chicks when i cought her but all the chicks...
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    from back yard in city to the country

    I am moving out to my grandfathers farm from san angelo. I grew up on that farm where we raised chickens turkeys and guineas. there has been no animals on the farm in about 20 yrs now. and many of the old chicken houses have deteriorated and or had trees fall on them. the old rock brooder house...
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    Depressed Chicken

    A lazy bird in this case your flock seems to be that way may indicate bad feed. feed that stays in the sun too long tends to loose its vitamins. try switching feed and the way its stored. another help is to buy Durvet vitamins and electrolytes. it comes with its own scoop and instructions to mix...
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    What kinds of Predators have taken your birds?

    skunks, racoons and opassums out at the farm. here in town possible fox and coon and mabe a opassum. something grabbed my hen off her nest a few rainy nights ago i scrambled out to save her never saw what had her but she managed to escape. most of her feathers on the back and all her egg...
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    Depressed Chicken

    I just found this post, growing up on a farm i seen a lot of things chickens turkeys and guineas do. but after being a city boy for a while i bought some chicks for Easter 2 yrs ago. 5 to be exact. 2 reds an americana ( my first of this breed) and 2 plymouths. one red was so gentle she was...
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