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    One chicken left after 4 killed by raccoons

    It's been ages since I've posted a question on this website, but I am here with a question I never thought I'd need to ask. We've had chickens since 2012. We have a large backyard and the girls were able to happily free range. Then three years ago a neighbor started feeding raccoons two...
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    1 yr old Ameraucana with cloaca prolapse-bloody eggs

    Hi, my 1-year-old Ameraucana's cloaca is red, swollen and sticking out of her bum. There is also a whitish film on one side. The feathers just above her bum are dirty and they're matted. Should we take to vet? Two days in a row her eggs have been bloody on the outside. This has to be...
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    Thinking of hiring a rooster to impregnate a chicken

    Hi, we have five chickens and would like more. We can have three to four more chickens. I thought it would be a neat project to get one or two of our chickens pregnant but I'm not sure how to go about doing that. However, I have some questions: 1. Is it possible to "hire" a rooster? In...
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    Hiya from Seattle, Washington!

    We are new to the chicken thing. We got our chicks at Easter after discussing it for about two years. It used to be that in Seattle we could only have three chickens and you could have more depending on the size of your lot. Now I've been told it's eight chickens! We have five (Amber White...
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    Building first coop and need help with floor

    Hello, new here to Backyard Chickens! We have a tiny coop, so I began to build a tractor/run thing. It's almost completed and I wonder if I should turn it into a coop/cage for the chickens. Initially this was just going to be a run attached to a coop I would later build, but since they...
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    Wonder if coop setup is what is attracting rats?

    Hi, this is my first post on Backyard Chickens and I am so happy to be here! Our girls are four months old and we have already started getting one egg from one of the chickens. Having chickens is a blast! We have seen three small rats lately and today one was inside the coop. Here is the...
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