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    Practice beheading chickens.

    Inevitably, I'm going to have to put one of my chickens down. From reading, it looks like cutting off the head is the most humane way. I would rather not have my first try go horribly wrong, so I figure I could get something from the butcher shop to practice on. What might be a good thing to...
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    Brown Leghorn Croup Issue

    We have started to notice that one of our brown leghorns has a large croup. She is definitely skinny too. We are new to chickens and aren't entirely sure what to do. This leghorn has always been very skittish, so she is very hard to get a hold of. We did finally buy an isolation coop, so we...
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    A wild turkey has joined my flock!

    I'd noticed that something was following my chickens around a week ago, but I had assumed it was after them. Yesterday morning I went to give snacks to them. They all came running in from the forest and just behind was a wild turkey. The turkey hung out with my chickens all day around the...
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    Blood on egg.

    Three days who, one of the eggs I found had blood on it. I couldn't see any evidence of a problem on any of the chickens. Yesterday, another one had blood on it, but it was less than the first time. What might be the problem?
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    What to feed for really yellow egg yolks?

    I know your supposed to feed them lots of things with beta carotene to get extra yellow eggs, but greens are running short now that fall is coming. It seems that everyone tries to judge eggs by the color of the yolk even if it's not really all that significant, so I'm willing to cheat a little...
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    Brown leghorns losing feathers at their back end.

    I have 19 hens and one rooster. I'm not sure of most of their breeds, but the brown leghorns are pretty obvious. They are a bit smaller than the other birds. All of our hens have just started laying. Last week, my wife noticed that one of the brown leghorns was losing feathers at its back...
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    Does anyone have experience with these yellow rollaway nest boxes?

    I'm trying to move my nest boxes because they are below where they roost and get pooped on all night. The problem is that these nest boxes have, for some reason, been built with a lip on the back that prevents me from just screwing them into the studs of my chicken house. I feel like I might...
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    Ideas on auctioning my eggs?

    My chickens just started laying (I'll get pics up when I get on a real internet connection.) We have 19 hens, and will soon be overwhelmed with eggs. One of my plans is to auction off eggs at church, but I can't just wait for 50 dozen eggs to come out. Nobody needs as many eggs as I will...
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    I ran out of food and the feed store is closed. What can I use for a day and a half?

    It seems I miss calculated on feed and ran out. I cannot get to the feedstore until tuesday afternoon. I could go now, but they are closed on Sunday. I have 20 chickens that are all about 13 weeks old. There must be something I can get at the grocery store that will work until Tuesday.
  10. Mr Hen

    What to do about overheating?

    Since we are in the middle of a heat wave with no end in sight, I wanted to get some ideas and techniques to deal with the heat. I already have a fan blowing air into the coop, and I put ice blocks in their waterer. At the moment they are stuck in their coop, but with the fan, the temperature...
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    What do I do with fertilized eggs?

    My chickens are about seven weeks, so they won't be laying soon. It's pretty clear that we have 19 hens and 1 rooster. I'm happy to keep my rooster as long as it doesn't become aggressive, but that means my eggs will be fertilized, and I would prefer to avoid opening an egg to partially formed...
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    Ill probably lurk a lot until I actually know stuff.

    My wife recently brought home 20 chicks. There are 4 breeds 5 of each. We have no idea what breeds. We have a black breed, an orange breed, a yellow with orange head breed and a smaller brown variegated breed. One of the orange ones looks like it is a rooster. His name is Mr. Hen. In a...
  13. Mr Hen

    Too much air? Not enough air?

    Six weeks ago my wife brought home twenty baby chickens. After weeks of brutal construction, I have finally (mostly) finished the coop and he chickens are in it. We bought a prefab 10'x10 ' shed with a loft and converted it to a coop. I cut windows and placed 1/2" mesh over them. Of course...
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