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    soft shell but no egg inside

    Anyone any ideas?
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    soft shell but no egg inside

    They are about 19 months old. That was our origional through that one of them was eating them but 95% sure thats not the case. As there is no sign of egg mess in the straw. We thing it is 1 of the nova browns, were pretty sure its not one of the leg horns as hy lay very dark brown eggs slightly...
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    soft shell but no egg inside

    Hi any advice welcome please. For afew weeks one of our chickens has been laying very thin and soft shells, but also there is no egg inside the shell it is leterally just the soft shell. We cant figure out which hen it is, but is there anything that can be done? A FEW QUICK POINT ABOUT THEM...
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    Rats in my chicken house

    Unfortunay we have had to use poision now. Its well hidden with in their run paths and they are taking it by the boat load we mixed it with a little mashed chicken pellets. Unfortunatly we have a bigger amount of rats than we ever imagined since in 3 days we have used a full tub of poision. As i...
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    coop idea for foxes- Will it work?

    Arfaid to say foxes can jump high fences, ee were going to FR in our garden. we have a 6ft fence surrounding out garden, when my dad startled the fox on only the 4th night of having chickens it got over the fence like a polvolter at the olympics!! Luckley didnt get the chooks and we soon made...
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    Rats in my chicken house

    We are trying different snap traps. Also got poison and glue traps since tthe rat got a egg ( or so we presume ) we stepping up rat attack
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    Rats in my chicken house

    The rats we have are out smarting the traps, didnt want to use poison incase the chickens get it, but now looks like we have no choice.
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    is this ok for our chickens??

    They are all against walls, someone may have ready been dealing with them, as the traps habe not been triggered ot bait touched in a few days, also not seen any rats for afew days
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    Can you use cayenne pepper around chickens?

    Not heard of using pepper :-\
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    Pit bulls in my coop!!

    But by the same rule. if someine is not supplying a suitable boundry for thier animal whatever it is (reguardless of fault here) then you should want to provide security for your own animals again reguardless of what animal thwy are
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    Pit bulls in my coop!!

    Could the galvanised metal not be electrified??? Have to layers so that the electricity cant jump from the outer to the inner. That way it could be on all the time so any preds woild be stopped but chooks are safe
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    is this ok for our chickens??

    Well to start with we didnt want too but its looking like we have no other choice. The rats are out smarting the snap traps. All 4 traps triggered but not a single rat cought, just a tad of blood on the base of a trap, not seen then in 2 days but the dogs just chased on in the front garden now...
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    Norway rats!

    What did you do with them once they were couught, because we thought about doing this too
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    Norway rats!

    I have rats atm we have the snap traps however they have been able to get the food and trip the traps without getting cought!!!!!!!!! but we havent seen as many since we plugged in a sound wave device near the coop. It dosent kill them just irritates them enouhh to move away from your chooks...
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    Pit bulls in my coop!!

    The find the pitbull link was interesting. My initial guess was wrong, however was correct on the second guess. Pits are a banned breed in the uk and if a dog is deemed to be the pit breed by a vet there is only 1 outcome for it!! All dogs are still of wild decent no however these dogs have...
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    Is this scaly leg mites? need help

    I read somewhere that vasaline or pertrolium jelly (sorry if thats spelt wrong) is eective in killing the mite as it suffacates it, dont know if anyone has anyone has done it this way, ive not had to deal with it myself. But it mite help in the future if not now
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    is this ok for our chickens??

    The sounfwave machine is plugged in near the chooks, myself and sis were on looking for the rats in the dark, and saw where they were nesting, and yet again its the neighbour at the back they are well est under his large shed. And not bothered by the fact me and sis were stood at the front of...
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    is this ok for our chickens??

    i know it wont kill the rats but it will at least keep them out of the garden which is what we want as we are scared of the chickens eating comtaminated dead rats, just now its been atcually inside the coop which we had not seen before, we have only seen them near the pond which was close...
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    is this ok for our chickens??

    we are unsure about usein gpoison incase the chickens get hold of it, or if the rat decides to meet his maker within the chicken coop and eats the rat before we get to it so .................... this works by emitting high frequency sound waves, that will irratate the rats and eventually...
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    mites

    i have been reading the section and several members have suggested sevin dust for chickens and sevin in liquid form for the coop now one of the chickens is looking worse for wear and is losing fethers on her breast, we brought her into the kickch to have a better look and there wer 2 mites...
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