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    How to manage a rude rooster?

    I was talking about trainability, and agree that someone happy to work around a difficult rooster can certainly do that. (Same with difficult individuals of other species.) It's also totally reasonable to decide what behaviors a person will decide to deal with. And children's safety is most...
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    How to manage a rude rooster?

    Blaming the victim, not better. And fear is a reasonable response, often life saving, not something to blame. Horses, dogs, and humans all have more 'brains' than any chicken! Mary
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    Horses!

    Very sweet! Good find! I think splash, look it up. And an individual spotted horse can carry genes for several patterns. Mary
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    Treating Tapeworms - Under Construction

    Fenbendazole for five days at the correct dosage kills a very few tapeworm species. Otherwise, praziquantel gets all tapes, but isn't approved for poultry in the USA. Mary
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    How to manage a rude rooster?

    I have two hens who are less polite than most, and neither will have chicks here, ever! One is Speckled Sussex, who took real work on my part to stop her biting, at my jeans for anything she wanted. Serious biting, and I kept her rather than moving her on to someone less experienced, or with...
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    Chicks!!

    Chick bins at TSC are dangerous places, it's so easy to fall for those babies! Happens to me often... Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    @Dreamzchaser, all the best as you get through this sad time, and know that we are all thinking of you, and hope to hear from you as you can. Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    So, now that we only have a bantam rooster, our BLR Wyandotte hen wants to brood those nice infertile eggs. Where was this idea when we had fertile eggs?! :barnie We also have plenty of chickens and don't need more this year, so she's going to be frustrated and not raise little ones now. Don't...
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    Cull, Rehome, or Rehabilitate/Reintegrate?

    I'm sorry, but this isn't a good story for her. Whatever's wrong, it's unlikely that she will get better, and it's miserable for her to have to live alone. Maybe, a very big maybe, she could manage with a couple or three much younger chicks, who wouldn't pick on her, at least now. I've never...
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    Starting over- Buckeyes, Swedish Flower, Speckled Sussex, Chocolate Orp,

    Here we've loved our Speckled Sussex, hens, and will always have some in our flock. Also Buckeyes, and Australorps are nice. Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes come in a variety of colors, we liked the buff Rocks very well too. Easter Eggers, yes! Then either Barnvelders or Welsummers for dark...
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    Chicken safe spider killer?

    @PLW, this is a very old thread, but a good reply anyway! Mary
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    Has anyone kept a small flock of sickly chickens?

    Having them in their own space, next to the flock if possible, sounds like the best plan, similar to what @BlindLemonChicken has done. Mary
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    They chew through hardware cloth?!?

    Unfortunately 1"x2" wire won't keep rats or maybe weasels, out. It's this never ending predator proofing story... The more labor intensive solution is to set up and pour concrete footings, thinking 2' deep would be enough? OUr coop is on an old building foundation, concrete footings and...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Home solar panels: anyone have them? We are seriously looking at this for our house, and would love feedback from any of you who've done it. Looks very interesting, the 30% tax credit is gone at the end of this year, and so all of a sudden there's some urgency if we plan to have them sometime...
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    And down here it's been too hot!!! Going up north sounds like a really good idea... Mary
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    What is this animal, is it dangerous?

    It's a young woodchuck, and cute as they are, move it on. They burrow under buildings, not good, and will eat a lot of chicken feed. Right now the youngsters are moving out and will be finding places to inhabit, and you don't wan this one staying around! Mary
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    Heat and chickens

    Agree, shade and cool water, watermelon is nice too. Our birds head right for the tree and shrub boarder next to their coop as soon as they get out, and it's much cooler there for them. Half of our coop/ roofed run has insulation in the roof, and it keeps the coop a bit cooler in summer, also...
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    How to manage a rude rooster?

    He's become a dangerous liability for you, and can seriously injure your children! Get him gone, ASAP, preferably as dinner for either your family or some other family. If you do try to rehome him, full disclosure is necessary, and having him injure another child? Terrible thought! Even if you...
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    What is this?!?

    Totally true, all of it. And two friends who had koi in their backyard ponds lost them to herons, very expensive losses, and learned that goldfish and heavy plantings are best! And don't forget about weasels, any variety, are happy to help with fish in small ponds too. Mary
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    Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

    Hostas only survive in my fenced back yard, deer do love them! Mary
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