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    Moles in my yard.

    Despite having two cats and 6 chickens that regularly patrol my yard, I have a serious mole problem going on. The ground is so spongy that I routinely sink in 3 to 4 inches with every step I take across my yard to the coop. There are also fairly sizable holes and areas where it has sunken in...
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    Chicken with arthritis - pain meds

    So I just came back from the vet, where I brought my chicken in because she's having trouble walking and has a sore on one of her feet. They said that while it might be bumblefoot (my diagnosis) that the fact that she can't bend her toes is more likely to be arthritis, and prescribed Meloxicam...
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    Scaly sternum?!

    I have a Golden Wyandotte, 5 years old, normally shaped and sized. She has a weird patch of scaly skin on her sternum. I've had these chickens since they were a couple of days old, and the golden's developed weird scaly gnarled claws around year 2. I have treated them for scaly mites, I've...
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    Lawn chemicals and chickens

    My housemate does not like broad leaf plants in our grass, so he wants to get a company to come in and spray the broad leaf plants and then overseed and fertilize the grass. The company claims the chemicals are safe for pets and kids. The chickens are only let into the yard for a few hours at...
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    cookie tin heater with nipples?

    So I've tried a variety of water heating options in the past few winters, but I haven't been happy with any of them. Either it was too much work (lugging water out twice a day) or didn't work (aquarium heater in bucket with nipples) or used a lot of electricity (pond warmer in bucket with...
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    bullying / merciless pecking (also paint eating)

    So I have a pack of 5 two year old chickens and a pack of 4, four month old chickens. They have been living together for the last 2 months. They are now roughly all the same size. I had figured by now the pecking order would be settled, but if anything, the problems seem to be intensifying...
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    integrating 4 eight week old chicks with 5 two year old hens.

    So they've feathered out and are starting to get let out to roam a little (they are still scared of the grass) so I've started contemplating how I'm going to integrate them in with the rest of the flock. I've heard that you can't integrate them until they stop peeping? Is this true? At what age...
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    Molting - supplemental protein - soy bean mash?

    Hi all, One out of 5 of my chickens have started molting, I'm hoping the rest start soon so they can get it over with before it gets much colder. At the same time we also started making our own soy milk, which results in leftover cooked soy mash, which the chickens seem to love. It makes about...
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    Drooling chicken? tetracycline dosage?

    One of my hens this morning was drooling a little while pecking at seeds on the ground. She didn't seem to be drooling when she was running around terrorizing her sisters, but only when pecking at the ground. There's a lot of snow still on the ground, could it be that she is eating snow and...
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    ACV and bird bath heater?

    Hi all, I have a 150 watt bird bath heater in my plastic 5 gallon nipple waterer. I want to add ACV for all the associated health benefits, but I'm concerned with the heater's metal interacting with the ACV? It's only been out there for a few weeks and already it's starting to get encrusted...
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    Stupid dog took a bite out of my chicken. (She appears to be stable, but now what?) (Pictures added,

    While our chickens were having their sunday morning sabbatical, a large yellow lab came into the yard and tried to have one of them for lunch. The chicken made a racket and the dog dropped the chicken and took off while we came running to the chicken's defense. After coaxing all the chickens...
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    molting - will be 4 degrees tomorrow night

    One of my hens is molting and it's going to get really cold tomorrow (it's 13 right now), low tomorrow is 4. I'm not worried about my full feathered wynadottes, they seem entirely unaffected by the cold, but my easter egger is down a bunch of feathers and the wynadottes begrudgingly let her...
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    Bad batch of chickens from My Pet Chicken?

    We bought 11 female sexed chickens from MPC in April. (Shared the shipping with a friend, I only have 5 of these birds) Their hatch date is 4/9. 1 - EE - turned out to be a rooster (to be expected) 2 - EE - Died around 24 weeks from a prolasped egg 3 - EE - Laid first egg around 18 weeks...
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    4 out of 5 chickens not laying currently - do I stop feeding them layer food?

    2 of my chickens haven't started laying. ...33 weeks :( 1 of my chickens is kinda molting so is not laying the other 2 chickens seem to be trading off who lays that day due to sunlight hours. Should I stop feeding them layer food and just have calcium available if needed? I don't want them...
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    Pet poop composter - would this work with chicken poop?

    http://lifehacker.com/5959472/build-a-pet-poop-composter-using-a-garbage-can?post=54178882 I've been contemplating what to do with the poop that I am scooping out of the hen house, it's mixed with wood pellets so it already has a fair amount of brown carbon material. Currently I am just...
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    29 week old wynadottes still not laying

    we have 2 wynadottes that lay like champs, but the other two show no signs of starting any time soon... can they sometimes just not ever mature?
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    when are these silly wyandottes going to start laying?!

    I have 5 chickens. 4 Wyandottes and one easter egger. They are all 24 weeks old. The easter egger started laying around 22 weeks (BROWN EGGS?! ) And now we are not so patiently waiting for the rest.. And they don't seem interested at all in laying. The easter egger started squatting around 21...
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    Buzzed by a hawk yesterday - now what?

    I have 5 nearly hens in an enclosed coop. I let them out for an hour or so every evening while I am out watching them in the yard. Yesterday they had wandered probably 20 feet from me on the yard near the wood line and all of a sudden I heard squawking and looked up just in time to see a...
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    16 week old pullets - food type?

    We just ran out of grower food for our 5 chickens (their feeder is full, so it will last them probably another week) - and I am wondering if I should buy more grower feed or switch to layer feed? I am certainly not going to need another 50 or even 20 pounds of food until they are 18 to 20 weeks...
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    Chickens and thunderstorms?

    So we put our pullets out a few weeks ago and they still haven't fully grasped the concept of roosting, but they normally go to the hen house instead of staying in their enclosed run when bed time rolls around. But tonight we have a line of thunderstorms headed our way so I decided to check to...
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