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    How many times can your flock get cocci?

    Thank you everyone. No, we don't have cats near them. Yes, I've been treating with Corid. I'll get feeders and do some work on the coop. Yes it has been a wet summer in the Midwest! Thank you!! :)
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    How often can your flock get cocci? - oops wrong place to post, sorry!

    Thank you!
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    How many times can your flock get cocci?

    I've had my freedom rangers since May. I treated them once for cocci when I lost 2 birds. A couple weeks later, two young layers who were brought down to a separate house in the area died of cocci, so I treated all 3 flocks: meat birds (again), old layers and young layers (who all live in...
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    How often can your flock get cocci? - oops wrong place to post, sorry!

    I've had my freedom rangers since May. I treated them once for cocci when I lost 2 birds. A couple weeks later, two young layers who were brought down to a separate house in the area died of cocci, so I treated all 3 flocks: meat birds (again), old layers and young layers (who all live in...
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    Preventing trampling

    This year went so much better in the brooder! I did lose 2 to crushing. I have learned to move the lamps away from the corners and that meat birds do get very warm. The two I lost to crushing was because the birds crowded in the corner to get away from the lamps. I put the lamps a little...
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    Preventing trampling

    Thanks for your reply, Havery. I especially appreciated the advice on feeding. Im using longer troughs this year so there is plenty of food this time around. you are right, that helps!. Paying close attention to stragglers. I had to syringe water a few last night because they were too...
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    Preventing trampling

    Hello from WI! Last year, I made a hover brooder. It's a 2x2 ft square box on legs with heat lamps. I put it in a big 8 x 4 foot shipping crate which housed 110 freedom ranger chicks. VERY BAD idea. The box did not leave much room along the side of the crate and many chicks got trampled. I...
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    Frustrated with dressed weights

    This is my 3rd year doing FRs and I'm frustrated. We just processed our biggest birds at 16 weeks and I'm still only getting 3.5 lbs dressed weight. I move the tractor to fresh pasture every day and let them out of the tractor to free range on weekends. (They like to swarm when I come with...
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    Electrified Poultry Netting - Holy Cow! $$$

    I have heavier birds that don't fly, so I'm not too worried about clipping their wings. And, with my two roosters, all do pretty well against the hawks. I read or saw where you can put two shipping pallets together to make a tee-pee for the birds to run under for cover. I'll probably add a...
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    Electrified Poultry Netting - Holy Cow! $$$

    Oh for pete sake, why didn't I think of that? I guess I kept seeing electrified poultry netting and thought of no other way. I used the 3/4 black plastic netting my dad gave us to line the hoop house down there. I'll rig up something using that. Thank you!!! (I feel so dumb)
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    Electrified Poultry Netting - Holy Cow! $$$

    I have finally moved my birds away from the house and down toward the pasture. I'd like to free-range them, but they are still too close to the house and will certainly find their way back to poop on my porch and wreck my flower gardens. I looked at Premier electrified poultry netting and holy...
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    brooders outside

    Flockmaster, this looks like a perfect plan for me. The only question I have is how to manage shavings. The last time I brooded chicks in my 8x4 foot shed, I had to replace the shavings a couple times. Weather was unpredictably too wet/cold to get them out on pasture and they grew bigger...
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    Would you combine the flock?

    We have a coop house that holds our 14 laying hens and 2 roos. The Jersey Giant is the dominant roo over the Barred Rock Roo. We also kept 4 Freedom Rangers from our meat bird flock to breed next spring. We have a magnificent roo and 3 hens. The meat birds are in a small coop we made this...
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    An egg shaped like a tic tac?

    Someone is just beginning her egg-laying career! LOL!!!
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    EMERGENCY! Please help asap!! clipped toe nail won't stop bleeding - k, I think we're out of the w

    k, the flour seemed to create a scab. We taped up the claw really well. There's not much more we can do. I put clean shavings in the coop. and will be looking for hen saddle patterns tonight :-) thank you everyone!!!!
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    EMERGENCY! Please help asap!! clipped toe nail won't stop bleeding - k, I think we're out of the w

    We had to clip the nail on our rooster because he's been ripping the skin off our hens. Unfortunately, the first one we trimmed was done too far. We've been trhing for almost an hour to get it to stop bleeding. We've tried pressure, dipping it in flour (we don't have cornstarch) Can't...
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    Processed our Freedom Rangers!

    I think the FRs are supposed to grow slow. I don't think they'd be too tough. I think if they were a year old, maybe, but not 16 weeks. I keep them penned up the day of harvest and don't let them free-range. I do feed them at their regular time the night before, 8:30 pm, but we don't process...
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