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    Outside?

    Yes. Thank you! It's been a while since I've had to raise my own chicks. Like 8 years. So this is all new to me again. I'm so ready for them to be grown and self-sufficient....
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    Ended Official BYC Mini Contest - Post a pic of your broody hen and chicks and

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    infectious coryza? or MG?

    I didn't mean to stir up a ****storm.... :frow
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    infectious coryza? or MG?

    Did you ever figure out what it was? My flock is seriously infected at the moment. I'm leaning toward coryza. Either way, I'm thinking of just culling all and taking a break from chickens for a year. I've been dealing with a mystery predator and now this. I'll just clean the coop really well...
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    Chicken Pictures

    These are my golden and silver laced wyandottes My new meat birds :) And this is my only "lap" chicken. She's a sweet girl :love. My sister said she just probably thought my legs were those sticks they like to roost on :plbb
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    Are Magpies Pedators of Chicken?

    My parents had a blackbird (not sure if it's the same kind of bird) take one of their baby chicks. They said they would've believe that one would do that until they saw it for their own eyes...
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    Can a dog eat a chick (approx 6 weeks) whole and leave no feathers or blood?

    I don't understand the whole "taste of blood" thing. My black lab/blue heeler mix killed a hen and mortally wounded my rooster when she was about a year old. With months of training, she doesn't have the slightest interest in them. She's almost 5 years old now and we have never had a problem...
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    My dogs ate one of my babies

    Just keep in mind, the dogs are only doing what they think is ok. Don't rehome them. They are trainable. In the beginning, I was so upset when my year old lab mix attacked my rooster and killed a hen that I'd had for only 4 months. So mad that I was ready to just shoot her. Thinking back to...
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    Predator ID - Got half our chickens :(

    My first thought, just like minnehaha, is that it's a raccoon(s). I had several lay waste to 4 cuckoo Maran's that were about 4 months old. Body parts everywhere in the coop and some just missing. They are gnarly little turds and they'll keep coming back. You can trap and release but there's a...
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    Comment by 'ronikins' in article 'Bobcat - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Bobcats'

    I wonder if a bobcat would be so bold to catch and eat a rooster VERY close to the house....
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    "Drunk" chicken

    I let her out. She's running and walking. She's just a little wobbly. Seems not as bad as the first day. I guess maybe it is/was a mild ear infection... [VIDEO]
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    "Drunk" chicken

    She's not really paralyzed. Her neck and wings are fine. She can and does still stand and walk..... Just not in a graceful or fluid motion. Maybe the molting is doing it?
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    "Drunk" chicken

    Thank you, Eggcessive. I'll look into botulism. Could very well be the culprit....
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    "Drunk" chicken

    Also, my flock is free-range. They have run of 20 acres that is half wooded. They eat my compost and what's left of my sad little garden....
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    "Drunk" chicken

    1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Rhode Island Red, about1.5 yrs old, and about 4-5 lbs (she's very small even when healthy. I don't think she's lost any weight.) 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Wobbly drunken walking...
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    Fox killed all my chickens (but one)

    yeah i was really surprised it worked so well. thankfully she got only 2 hens. i actually accidentally snuck up her on the 3rd time in my coop. i had read about the shirt idea along with using a radio (set to a talk show). supposedly, these work because the fox are (supposed to be) scared of...
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    Fox killed all my chickens (but one)

    i had the sameproblem. only it was just a vixen taking one at a time for her kits. i really really didn't want to kill her. so i hung a particularly stinky shirt of my husband's, one he'd wore while hauling wood, right on the run. i haven't seen ger since and that was 2 years ago....
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    Thanks for the encouragement, guys! She's doing awesome with her New babies. She's very protective of them now my mille fleur is broody with 12 eggs and another BO isbroody with 9... i completely understand about wanting to help the babies when they're hatching. it takes a lot of will to...
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    she seems happy with her newly adopted babies :)
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    Ok. I slipped the chicks under her. she pecked at them a little, but settled down before i left thecoop. i guess i'll check on them before i go tobed. i wish i could stay out there all night to make sure she doesn'tkill them. if she does, well, at least i tried... i guess, at that point, i'll...
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