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  1. RubelliteRose

    My roosters spurs

    We cut the end of our rooster's spurs using a dremel cutting wheel. I shine a flashlight through the spur and mark the end of the quick with a pencil so we don't cut into it. Dog nail clippers can also work, but Blue's spurs are too thick for those. My understanding is that twisting the spur...
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    Baby chicks dying

    I'm so sorry you are going through all this. Usually if chicks are too hot, they move away from the heat instead of clustering under the heat lamp like they are in your picture. Have you contacted the store where you bought them to see if others are also having chick deaths? A possibility...
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    Is this typical for cockerels?

    If this helps for next year, I have a mixed breed flock. My darker brown and olive egg layers tend to be the ones who have blood spots in their eggs. The light brown are hit and miss. The white and blue eggs rarely have blood spots. (I say rarely but I can't remember the last time I found a...
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    Is this typical for cockerels?

    Was the behavior typical? - well, yes and no. Out of 8 males, we have only had 3 worth keeping. The rest were culled either due to human or hen aggression. All were raised the same way except the first- broody mom but quite a bit of human interaction. Of the 3, only 1 would be considered...
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    How high can chickens jump?

    As far as I know, none of my birds have tried to escape with the netting. The twine diameter isn't quite as thick as the welded wire fencing around the bottom, but it is thick enough that the chickens seem to know that they can't get through it.
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    How high can chickens jump?

    Our silver leghorn and a couple of our Easter Eggers would easily fly up to my husband's shoulder when they were younger, so a 6 foot fence would not be an issue. We use poultry netting from Pinnion Hatch Farms over the run to protect the flock from hawks...
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    What did you name your chicks ?

    🤣 love the rooster names!
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    loosing chicks to bulling?

    An additional thought, are all the bullied/dead chicks from the same group? Where did they come from - is it possible that they arrived with a disease, mites, or lice?
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    loosing chicks to bulling?

    What are the age differences between your groups? I have had age differences of as little as a week result in mild bullying. I had a difference of 3 weeks this year and the older girls have yet to accept the youngest girl.
  10. RubelliteRose

    Is it appropriate to de-worm during molting?

    I use Safeguard for goats. I have 19 birds ranging from 7.5 to 3 pounds so I dose them individually by soaking pieces of bread in their appropriate amount. I was going to switch to Valbazen this year, but it has been on backorder everywhere for months😕
  11. RubelliteRose

    Roosters are fighting

    Are they sparring or fighting? We have 2 half brother roosters who sparred their first year to determine dominance. Sparring involved fluffing up and jumping at each other, but little to no physical contact made. In their second year, there were a couple of sparring incidents and now that...
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    What did you name your chicks ?

    We currently have a mix of geeky names and old fashioned names:D Current flock girls: Torchic, Pidgey, and Onix are all Pokemon River Song from Dr Who Wanda from the Avengers Pippin from LotR Toff and Zuko (when she hatched, she was missing a patch of feathers around her eye that matched Zuko's...
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    Is it appropriate to de-worm during molting?

    I have also heard that you shouldn't deworm during molting. I wouldn't give a preventative dose, but if you are seeing roundworms in droppings, I would deworm anyway. From my first bird starting to molt to the last one finishing is usually around 5 months:barnie. Twice now I have mis-timed...
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    Montistat

    Here is the article I use as a crop issue reference: https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/how-to-treat-sour-crop-and-impacted-crop-and-how-to-know-which-one-youre-dealing-with.73607/ From the article - "The easiest (and cheapest) to obtain yeast treatment, though, is miconazole, found on...
  15. RubelliteRose

    Dog Pooping on Floor at Night

    I am so sorry you are going through this. I am going to recommend a change of food. While this was years ago and may not be related, we had digestive issues with our dogs when they were on Blue Buffalo. We mentioned it to our vet and he said that several other clients were also having problems...
  16. RubelliteRose

    EMERGENCY!!! LASH EGG!!!!

    It is hard to tell from your picture, but that lash egg looks fairly small. If you can figure out which girl it came from, as Nuthatched said, you do not necessarily need to cull her. I have a hen who had a small lash egg just after she turned one. We treated her with amoxicillin. The...
  17. RubelliteRose

    Getting close with my hens!

    Welcome to the wonderful world of chickens😄 The best way to get really friendly chickens is to get them when they are tiny babies. The second best way is to keep doing what you are doing with your flock! Spend lots of time with them. Chickens are prey animals and it can take quite a while...
  18. RubelliteRose

    Should I change out deep litter bedding before winter? Because it could cause too much moisture?

    Since your coop is inside a building and has a concrete floor, you have deep bedding instead of deep litter. I think this is what most people have in their coops:) The main difference is that deep bedding will not compost enough to provide warmth to your chickens due to a lack of moisture. In...
  19. RubelliteRose

    Raising Baby Chicks: What’s Your Go-To Method?

    We have one from each group! Sage, who went broody first, is a McMurry Ameracuana (EE). We were shocked as they are not supposed to be broody at all. Pippin, our Maran, went broody a week later. Pippin has continued to go broody every year since then. We are thinking about adding a couple...
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    Do most/all layers, who are allowed to free range, eventually relapse to egg-hiding?

    I have 7 nest boxes for 16 hens. The 5 who are currently laying, all lay their eggs in a spot in the shavings next to the nest boxes🙄 We have only had one hen who randomly started laying eggs in the yard while free ranging - she was not a new layer and not broody. We caught her early and a...
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