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    Crow collar for Bantam?

    Does anyone have a recommendation for a crow collar for a bantam? He's 8 weeks?!? I don't recall. He's fully feathered and just this tiny little guy and he's already started crowing! I had no idea that was possible! lol Anyhow I have neighbors that knocked on my door and cursed a blue...
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    3 or 4 week old chicks *fighting*??

    I have 6 bantams - about 3 or 4 weeks old and they are fighting. Its one in particular attacking the others. Grabbing the other one by the neck and jumping on him. I've never seen this before in chicks. They were straight run - is this a male behavior emerging?!?
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    Best bedding for wet muddy run

    I have a question about 'building up the run'. If I add gravel - the hardware cloth will keep in in the run. But if I add dirt on top of that - what will keep that in the run? And if I build up the sides so the dirt doesn't just run off...then won't that cause the same drainage issues?
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    Keeping smell down in run

    We live in New England - so there's lots of weather - sometimes all in a week. Where the run is there's lots of run off from the rain. So there's a bit of erosion we're tackling. In addition - its overlooking the neighbor's yard ( the proper, legal distance) but I still don't want the wind to...
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    Dutch doors on chicken run

    @Autumnswirl I LOVE those windows!! @Molpet - perfect!!! Thank you, all!!
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    Dutch doors on chicken run

    Just built yesterday so we are still tweaking. The 'people door' is temporary but its in the place I want to build the permanent one. You can see the pop hole door is off to the right (looking in at the people door). There are gaps and spaces that I hope you can overlook because I am working...
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    Dutch doors on chicken run

    I should have been more clear! I meant that I could just open the opt and reach the pop hole door (they are close) or even open the top door and throw some veggies in without fear that they will escape. If I want to enter I could use the whole door. lol The foyer is a wonderful idea but we...
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    Dutch doors on chicken run

    Has anyone had any success, have any advice, any designs, any reason not to build....dutch doors on the chicken run (for people to walk through - not a pop hole door)?? I was thinking that it would be easier for my family to help me care for the chickens if we weren't always worried about the...
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    Who ate the almost ready to hatch egg?

    I will keep that in mind - thank you!!
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    Who ate the almost ready to hatch egg?

    ...a problem without a rooster (and fertile eggs and broody hens). :/ That last egg has been in the incubator without a sound. Since I didn't mark it on the calendar from the beginning I calculate that its been 25 days since I marked the eggs. Maybe momma hen knew something after all? *sigh*
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    Who ate the almost ready to hatch egg?

    ...Momma walking around the yard because she had no eggs on the nest. Today she's back in there no doubt sitting on everyone's eggs again. I *had* been removing everyone's eggs daily from her nest for just that reason. I had marked the 'original' eggs so I could tell the difference...
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    Who ate the almost ready to hatch egg?

    ...'hatchable' eggs are cracked and the new eggs are not getting cracked. Im thinking if want that last egg to be safe I'm gonna have to hatch it myself. So sad - besides the loss of the other chicks - I was looking forward to seeing 'nature in action'. Eaten chicks was not what I meant...
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    Who ate the almost ready to hatch egg?

    Was it the broody hen? Was it the rooster? Or was it the two other full grown hens in the coop? And why? Right now I separated the rooster because that was the easiest to do and (to me) the most likely culprit. But I will be away this weekend with someone else watching them. And momma...
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    Frozen eggs - are they ruined?

    Thanks! When you defrost them - are the yolks weird? Mine never really get runny after freezing them - they're just kind of - gelled? Are there things that your previously frozen eggs work best in? Things that they totally do NOT work in?
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    Frozen eggs - are they ruined?

    I had an abundance of eggs this summer so I froze them. I'm not really sure what I was thinking because I've read plenty of threads about scrambling them a bit and throwing in a pinch of salt - but I saw a post where she froze them with the yolk intact so that's what I did. Defrosting them -...
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    Northwest Connecticut Egg Bound Chicken

    I'm in Northwest Connecticut near Bristol, CT and I have a 2 year old egg bound chicken. We've just had a death in the family and we're pretty upside down right now. I haven't the time to deal with this poor baby. Its been two days and soaking her in some warm water and trying to force fluids...
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    CORRECTiON: TWO YEAR OLD Three year old hens not really laying

    Yes. I've read the other threads and the excellent advice but sometimes there's one or two things about the question that's not like my situation.... I have three year old hens. There are two red sex links and one amber link. They've seen quite a bit of predators take their fellow flock...
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    GREAT SCOT! First egg attempt???

    Hmmmm....So whichever it is - she's two years old. So she ought not to be at the end of her lay. Illness? She doesn't appear so. *sigh* I need to do much more research and much more watching....
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    GREAT SCOT! First egg attempt???

    I just assumed that since I had some new layers in there that it was one of theirs. Yes! I have three 2 yo hens in there. I'm going to get right on those links - thank you!! I'm so glad I posted this instead of assuming!
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    GREAT SCOT! First egg attempt???

    When I first went in this morning it was tacky. Its hard. Not chicken shell hard - but big ball of tissue hard. Blech. Anyone experience such a thing?
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