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    Will black snakes harm my chickens and chicks?

    they will eat eags and small chicks. they would eat bigger chicks if they could swallow them.
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    Black Copper Marans and 3 mixed Silkies...sex?

    I ONLY SEE ONE CHICKEN, IT IS FEMALE.
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    Has anyone had success with deer cams? *updated with pics!*

    shot, I read your title and thought you cought a real live human person pull the head off of your chicken. Yes a possioum would take the heads off or any where else that was handy but sounds like a blood sucker animal like a skunk or weasel perhaps a mink. I see you are North carolina so you...
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    Got the preditor on camera! Can you identify?

    that is a cat in the photo. cats will kill chickens. I don't think that they would kill a full grown hen but if they were hungry enough they might.
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    hatchery RIRs

    a true RIR is red ,dark red and they always say they are shapped like a brick. the roosters will have black tail feathers .
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    hatchery RIRs

    red sex links, known as golden coments and cinnamon queens. The birds are crossed with several breeds to get the parent stock. most hatcherys sell them . there is a black sex link that is a cross between RIR and a barred plymouth rock. they are black with red or yellow feathers around the neck...
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    Is my hen a "Red Rock"?

    red sex links, they will lay brown eggs and the white ones are leghorns. They lay white eggs and lots of them. how old are they ?you couldn't have better layers than these unless they are old. I think after the 3rd laying season , time to get new chickens. They will lay after 3rd. year but not...
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    Mister or Miss?

    rooster, no doubt.
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    Cuckoo Marans eggs ' how dark?

    I have 5 cuckoo marans hens bought at a hatchery here are 4 eggs from the marans. how does the color seem to you? I have been disappointed because the color is not much darker than my Golden comets.. I know since they came from the hatchery I was lucky to get these as dark as they are but I...
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    White Crested Black Polish...Please help!

    that is a female. the males head feathers go every which way and are sort of shaggy looking while the female top knot is like a cap.
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    gifts

    THIS summer I gave my sister a few bantam hens a couple of larger birds and a old english game bantam rooster. She has never had chickens but has really enjoyed the eggs she finds around the coop.
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    Dog attack

    any dog will chase chickens , chicken runs, squakes an it is a lot of fun after one kill they will do it again because they have the taste of blood now. that is my opinion. we have had dogs in the past that didn't kill our chickens but these were farm breed dog. I have maintained for years a dog...
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    my son is "THE PEST"

    no children should be alowed to case chickens or use them to play with. a chicken has a right to some piece and quite, don't you think?. i do suppose the the chickens would lay eggs less if they are constantly under attict from bratty chirden. Tell your chrilden no and go from there..
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    You won't believe what I found when cleaning our new for us car. Advice on what to do.

    I think you are acting a little over board, so what does it matter what some one did in the car in the past and you can not know WHO did the deed. Why not just forget the whole matter.
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    My Barred Rock is laying white eggs...

    browns eggs are white then while traveling down the egg tract they are coated with brown. Your hen has less coating the others that all.
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    pumpkin pie making

    If I think someone is trying to rip me off I get contary I saw canned pumpkink at our local market for 2.59 , that was the smaller cans. I stopped at a store out side of town that sell apples from their trees and bought 2 pumpkins a dollar each. I will have enough pumpkin for my self and all of...
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    Coyotes

    I don't think lights will keep them away. a good stock dog migh help at least let you know if something was wrong . a good sturdy house and them locked up tight at night....
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    Need help sexing Silver Laced Wyandotte Bantams!!!

    the bird on the left could be male but maybe not look for pointy feather growing just behind the fail, pointy feather means male.feather round on the end female.
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