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    Very Stubborn / Persistent Raccoons... Need new Ideas

    Ok So i am not new to this chicken thing but over the last two weeks i have lots almost 10 chickens to raccoons. Before that i was a good year with out a raccoon loss. I have three large coops with three separate runs. The middle coop and run is the oldest of my coops and that is were the...
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    How do you reduce feed waste?

    Well I am just looking to see what everyone else does to reduce the amount of food that gets wasted by messy picky chickens. I have read many different posts and I just thought I would try to get a bunch of suggestions all in one place. Things I have done are switch to pellets instead of...
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    Two hens Pro-laps Vent Close period of time, Any Input would be great.

    OK so over the last week or so two of my white leg horn hens, some of my older ones about a year and a half or so, prolapsed there vents. Both were culled because in both cases they were not little pro-laps i mean they were really prolapsed. Both were found because of the large amount of blood...
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    Worms Please Help!!!

    OK so I have been reading worm posts all day!!! I found worms in one pile of chicken poop the other day so I can only imagine that all my chickens have worms. They were small white worms. So I started reading posts about how to get rid of them. I have chosen the dewormer Valbazen 500ml because...
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    Sick Chicken, Please Help, Picture Included.

    So, I found this chicken in my coop yesterday morning. She was acting normal but the one side of her face looked liked this. Very swollen. Clear liquid (looks like tears) coming from her eye. She is just under a year old. No other chickens are showing anything similar. I have separated her from...
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    Very Smart Raccoon Need Help.

    So I have had my chickens for more than a year now with no deaths to raccoons. Now i know they all around my house i trap and kill them almost every day. So when i built my coop i built a strong fence. Well 1 week ago i lost a baby chick when a raccoon tried to pull that poor little chick right...
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    Need a good Mother Breed!

    I am looking to get 1 or 2 chickens who are good mothers. I bought a road island red last year with 5 chicks. She did a great job raising them but she has not gotten broody again. I have done everything to support her becomming broody again but she hasn't. I really wanted to have a hen do the...
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    When and how hard is it in integrate my new chicks with my existing flock.

    Ok so this year I raised 6 chicks they are 4 weeks old sunday. I read and herd that around 6 weeks or so they are good to go on their own. Well i cant really find any good information on how they do when they are introduced to other older chickens. They are all Red bluffs and there are some red...
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    Found Seemingly Healthy Chicken Dead Need Ideas

    This morning I found one of my white leghorn hens dead in the coop. She was a little over a year old a great layer and untill this morning very healthy and happy. I saw all the chickens last night they were all fine. I have 20 chickens total in two coops I. I have had chickens now for a little...
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