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    Dogs killed and injured our entire flock of 55....crushed!

    So excited to get 5 Rhode Island Reds and 2 Buff Orpingtons from the Tractor Supply today and have a shipment of 50 chicks coming on Friday. Some of my girls are still badly wounded and hoping they pull through. I just can't believe this time last week we were getting over 20 eggs a day from...
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    My entire flock of 55 have been killed or injured...crushed!

    Thanks for the encouragment. We have cleaned feathers and the destructive mess from all the coops today. There were even chunks of chicken meat we had to clean up. The sun is shining and we have a handful of limping buff orpintons that we let out ( only breed we have a few of left ) and they...
  3. chickencrazyinHT

    Dogs killed and injured our entire flock of 55....crushed!

    Thanks for the encouragment. We have cleaned feathers and the destructive mess from all the coops today. There were even chunks of chicken meat we had to clean up. The sun is shining and we have a handful of limping buff orpintons that we let out ( only breed we have a few of left ) and they...
  4. chickencrazyinHT

    Dogs killed and injured our entire flock of 55....crushed!

    Thanks for the encouragment. We have cleaned feathers and the destructive mess from all the coops today. There were even chunks of chicken meat we had to clean up. The sun is shining and we have a handful of limping buff orpintons that we let out ( only breed we have a few of left ) and they...
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    Dogs killed and injured our entire flock of 55....crushed!

    Yes he shot them both. The German Shepard ran away and the bulldog ran through the woods and we think he died in there somewhere. We saw the house the German Shepard went to and called the police to see how we needed to handle it and they called the people and they admitted it was their dogs...
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    My entire flock of 55 have been killed or injured...crushed!

    I have seen the most horrific sight ever. I came out to find a bulldog and German Shepard at my chicken coops. I saw feathers on the ground and knew it was bad. I ran them off and nothing prepared me for what i saw. we have 6 different coops and they had managed to tear into every one and it was...
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    Dogs killed and injured our entire flock of 55....crushed!

    I have seen the most horrific sight ever. I came out to find a bulldog and German Shepard at my chicken coops. I saw feathers on the ground and knew it was bad. I ran them off and nothing prepared me for what i saw. we have 6 different coops and they had managed to tear into every one and it...
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    Dogs killed and injured our entire flock of 55....crushed!

    I have seen the most horrific sight ever. I came out to find a bulldog and German Shepard at my chicken coops. I saw feathers on the ground and knew it was bad. I ran them off and nothing prepared me for what i saw. we have 6 different coops and they had managed to tear into every one and it...
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    Chick won't stand on legs...are they broken?

    It is a red sex link chick. I followed the splayed leg directions with the band aid. Waiting to see if she will stand on them. Now I'm wondering is something else is wrong because she is much smaller than the other chicks of the same age. Thanks for the link about the splayed legs.
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    Chick won't stand on legs...are they broken?

    I have a chick that is a week old and she won't stand up. I took her out of the brooder where she was with over 40 other chicks because they were running all over her and she couldn't move. I have her in the house now and she will not stand up, she just lays in one place and scoots herself...
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    Chick won't stand on legs...are they broken?

    I have a chick that is a week old and she won't stand up. I took her out of the brooder where she was with over 40 other chicks because they were running all over her and she couldn't move. I have her in the house now and she will not stand up, she just lays in one place and scoots herself...
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    New shipment of chicks. 2 are very weak, won't eat or drink or stand.

    Thanks for the replies, Im going to try these things. I dipped one of the chicks beak in water and it drew its head all the way back to where it's head was touching the back of its rear (It was so odd) and it got stiff. I thought it was dying but it's still breathing, only it opens its mouth...
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    New shipment of chicks. 2 are very weak, won't eat or drink or stand.

    Got a shipment of 50 chicks today. 2 of them are very weak and won't eat or drink or stand. They are breathing, just very lethargic. I have isolated them but can I give them Pedialyte or buy some chick vitamins? All of them seemed ok when we got them out of the box but these 2 weak ones were...
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    Chick Shipment late...important question.

    I ordered 50 chicks that were hatched on Tuesday morning. The tracking # said they would be here today at the post office. They never arrived today and I was told that they would now be here tomorrow. I was really upset b/c they were supposed to arrive and didn't and even though they draw the...
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    heat needed in brooder?

    The rule of heat lamps in brooders is that a chick needs to be at 95 deg for the first week of life and then you can drop by 5 deg. increments each week until they are ready to go in the coop. If those chicks are already 3 weeks old then mid 70's with direct sun during the day should be fine...
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    Why can't they all just get along?

    Decided to combine our white leghorns and RIR hens to free up a whole coop that we need for our newest chickens. This morning, our leghhorns had torn combs and were bleeding. We moved the RIR's into the leghorns coop because the RIR's were the dominant ones when we let them free range together...
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    Who would steal eggs?

    That is terrible that someone would steal eggs, Put another sign up and say something to the effect that due to stealing you now have cameras up to protect your egg business ( even if you don't). The thought of being caught on camera might deter them from doing it again. I worked at a bank once...
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    HELP chick hatched with a severely crooked beak!

    That is sad. I have never seen anything like that. I would cull it now. We had some chicks that we had to cull. It broke my heart but they were sick and suffering so I had to get my husband to do it. I read about several ways and the quickest thing with no suffering was snapping the neck...
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    How long should I keep warming light on?

    They need to be 95 degrees the first week and then start dropping by five degrees each week until they are ready to go outside in the coop.
  20. chickencrazyinHT

    Dead chicken and don't know the cause

    My husband found one of our leghorns dead in the coop yesterday and we have no idea what happened. She shared a coop with 5 other leghorns. We let them free range the night before and all seemed ok with the girls. He came home from work the next day and she was laying in the middle of the...
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