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    Hen with droopy wings, gurgling "wet" cackle...still eating and drinking

    I found my 10 month old partridge rock hen inside the coop looking very weird. Her wings are drooping and she stumbles when she tries to walk. She was broody last month and sat on some fertilized eggs I got from another chicken owner but her chicks were eaten by the other hens. We don't have a...
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    Will a chicken attack a squirrel?

    My fives hens are scared of everything, yet I swear whenever a grey squirrel is anywhere near their run they run/fly over to where it is at as if they wanted to get it, like they do with flying insects. Am I imagining this? Has anyone ever seen a chicken or a group of chickens take out a...
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    New chicks eat my hair

    My two week old chicks like to climb on my shoulders, which I think is cute, but while they are up there they often peck at my hair and eat strands of it occasionally. Is this bad for them? Should I be concerned?
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    How far out should I skirt the hardware cloth?

    I was just outside digging the post holes for my run, and I came quickly to the realization that there was no way I was digging an 18" deep trench all along the fence line to bury the 1/4"x1/4" hardware cloth. The run will be 8'x12'. My dirt is very hard clay. We have a lot of raccoons in the...
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    Hello from South Central Wisconsin

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I am a total new egg , don't have chickens or a coop yet, but am ready to start after reading through tons of pages here. I am going to document everything so I can make a page. I am going to take many precautions about raccoons and...
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    Need suggestions for cold weather coop

    I am building a shed on a 8'x12' cement pad, where 8x4 will be a coop and 8x8 will be a storage shed for bikes, etc and they will share an internal wall. I am struggling with where to put doors, because here in WI the winters get pretty cold. I had thought to put a full-sized door leading from...
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