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    Comment by 'clownychick' in item 'Welsummer'

    aww, what a sweetie. RACCOONS SUCK!!
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    fighting raccoons

    I love those names! and I agree - this group is pretty great. I've learned more useful, helpful things in the past few weeks on here than I can count! About to go check my trap... I followed Mary's advice and put a concrete block on top. Good luck , and enjoy getting to know your new girls...
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    fighting raccoons

    If you're using a Havahart (that's the only kind I have right now), be sure it's well staked down! I thought for sure I had everything dialed in last night: a few tent pins pounded in, the rear door secured with a metal rod, plus a plastic yogurt-type container (filled with dry catfood)...
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    Need Help-Wyndotte has red swollen butt and underside

    Actually, @brendae2007 if you don't mind graphic videos - just check out youtube, search for egg peritonitis (the one with ascites fluid in the title is pretty informative; 'Ms. Ashley' seems to really know her stuff).
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    Need Help-Wyndotte has red swollen butt and underside

    Have you see the other threads on here describing similar conditions? https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/120841/bald-butt-and-swollen-below-vent/ There are some similar picture...but no one seems to know exactly what it is. Good luck...
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    BBS Orpington Guy Among Gals?

    I can't even imagine...I'm traumatized just thinking about your experience!! oy, I'm so sorry you had to deal with such incredible nastiness! man, the things we do for the ones we love...
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    Comment by 'clownychick' in item 'Silkie'

    ;-) well, the one good thing is that he would sit so still once you had him up in your lap, it was pretty easy to trim really close to the eye without too much fear of poking an eyeball. i had him wrapped in a towel though just in case. but it definitely helped! no more feathers poking him in...
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    BBS Orpington Guy Among Gals?

    ughhh...i had to google...flystrike! i knew about other parasites, but this... it makes me want to go bleach the coop first thing tomorrow morning just in case!!!!
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    BBS Orpington Guy Among Gals?

    omg, i'm so grossed out and i can't even stop asking about it - did she have a wound or something that got infected?? ugh, just UGH!!! BD and HP both had a super nasty case of lice - and HP had scaly leg mites to boost, I'd been dunking both of them in tea tree oil baths before i finally took...
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    BBS Orpington Guy Among Gals?

    ! don't even get me started on the hawks! there's a red tail and broadwing hawk that like to spar over the backyard, one has a nest right on the edge of the lawn/woods too... one or both have definitely made attempts on my flock, a couple successful ones early on before I wised up to which...
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    BBS Orpington Guy Among Gals?

    <3 thanks, alex. BD and HP were the last of 'first' babies, who weren't even babies but rescues. my Ameracauna Big Brown I had to put down bc of shell gland malfunction, that was also sad but I knew at least she was out of pain - and then Cookie, an aracauna, was lost earlier this spring to a...
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    Comment by 'clownychick' in item 'Silkie'

    bwaahAHAHAHA!! oh man, thank you for the laugh. I got a silkie roo free from a neighbor not really knowing what I was getting (I'd just had a predator attack and decided I needed a roo; neighbor had 2 and was only too happy to let me have one)... you summed him up perfectly: the fluffiest...
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    BBS Orpington Guy Among Gals?

    ugh, stupid varmints. Big Dot had already had her tailfeathers chomped by a fox before the coon showed up! If I weren't allergic to dogs & cats, I'd for sure have something big & furry stationed outside! E
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    When Does a Chicken Start to Cluck?

    I know this post is beyond old, but aiwetir's pic is priceless!!
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    BBS Orpington Guy Among Gals?

    aw, thanks. I'm still mourning my barred rock Big Dot & little white leghorn HennyPenny that got eaten by the %$# raccoon - I really miss seeing them out in the yard, so to be honest I haven't yet bonded with these new girls...but all in time. The gray lacy ones are rather pretty though, we'll...
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    fighting raccoons

    I originally used a tin of anchovies, but the skunks like fish too. Then I got a box of cheap cat food (only cause the dog food was too fancy at my local market, heh) - raccoons love it. Also doesn't leave YOU smelling fishy.
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    BBS Orpington Guy Among Gals?

    It only just occurred to me to also ask - any guesses on how old my BBS Orps are? The woman I got them from didn't know exactly - 'all feathered out'. Sweetie Peeps is about 8 or 9 weeks, and these guys are twice her size, though that could be bc they're bigger/fluffier anyway? Just trying to...
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    BBS Orpington Guy Among Gals?

    The bottom one is definitely a Rhode Island Red - spitting image of my little Sweetie Peeps!
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    fighting raccoons

    Thanks for this info - I actually had no idea it was illegal here! And good luck with the tractor... I had one too, back when I had my big girls and new chicks. If it had been more predator proofed if might have worked, but for me it wasn't secure enough. With 2 predators, one could scare em...
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    fighting raccoons

    eh, I save the long swims for the small fry like the red squirrels that seem to have multiplied exponentially every week. Someone else on here mentioned a skunk dispatch pole (you can google it), which is how I'd go if it happens again.
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