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    Chicken Vampire

    Samantha is one year old, she is either a Cochin or a Brahma and was previously a docile featherbrained bird. She has started being broody and worst of all she actually pecks at our legs and then drinks the blood. I have added all sorts of extras to the food in case it is a vitamin deficiency...
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    Texas

    Hi, I am near White Rock Lake in Dallas. I started my flock on Mother's Day this year and have a Barred Rock, Cochin and an Americana.
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    Alternatives to wood shavings?

    ChickensAreSweet, great name, by the way. Obviously, our different parts of the country call for different solutions. Since my coop needs to be open aired most of the year I don't have problems with the cedar smell building up. I have sand on the outside where they can take dust baths and...
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    New Member 2013

    Thank you all, I am looking forward to hearing from fellow chicken lovers. Kelsie2290 Cosette has more personality than alot of people I know. Luckily it is a positive personality, she keeps me laughing every day, from the morning when she literally hops up and down when she sees her oatmeal...
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    New Member 2013

    On Mother's Day 2013, I treated myself to three pullets and finally threw away the Organic Gardening magazine from the 80's with the article about the Benefits of Backyard Chickens. As a child, my sister and I always got those colored chicks for the holiday, loved on them until they went to...
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    Alternatives to wood shavings?

    Have you used cedar chips? It dries quickly and also works to keep many bugs away too. Since we live in the hot south, my coop is more open and shredded paper collects too much moisture in the open areas. I use shredded paper only in the laying boxes.
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    Do you play favorites? Admit it....it's OK....I won't tell the others....

    Two of my birds are in competition for my 'favorite' status. Cosette, the Barred Rock, will probably be the most missed of the flock. Top hen of the flock, not mean, just in charge and very protective. She defended her sibling, Samantha, seen in the background, from a Red-Tailed Hawk and ended...
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