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    Please help - mama tried to kill pipping eggs, walked away

    My mille fleur's who I've let lay and set at will have never successfully hatched out chicks. I go and check on them today as they have been setting and I find one chick had started to zip out and died. Mama was on the other side of the coop and had abandoned the rest of the eggs because she...
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    Golden Sebright Rooster

    Beautiful golden sebright bantam roo. Survivor of a bear attack last summer that took his flock. He is with full size layers and is a bit protective, but treats his ladies pretty well. Not a fan of shipping, so local pick up is preferred.
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    Beautiful Silver Lace Wyandotte Roosters

    I have three beautiful Roos, which is two to three too many. I would love for them to have a flock of their own since they are turning into good guardians and are slowly learning proper rooster etiquette. I'm in Western Mass, so would prefer a local source, but if necessary will ship.
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    Bear tried to break down the barn door - now what

    It has been a terrible year around here for predators. Racoons, fox, and now a bear. Monday morning I went out to find the bear had taken down the tractor, killed four of the bantams but two lucky boys flew away. I moved the survivors into the barn until I can figure out a better tractor...
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    Gold Seebright Rooster

    I just had a bear attack which took out one of my coops. The only survivors are two roosters; a gold seebright and a mille fleur. The gold is too beautiful not to have a flock of his own, and until I can secure a new coop I don't want to continue to feed the wildlife. I'm in Western Mass and...
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    Help - Chick stomped in shell, half out, with visible vessels

    Help - I'm having a terrible problem with young hens stomping their eggs when they start peeping. They have killed three babies so far and tonight I saved (possibly) a fourth. She is half out of her shell, peeping, eyes open, but the rest of the shell is crushed around her and I see vessels in...
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    Go Ravens!

    I just opened up two of the coops for the morning and went back into the house to get another cup of coffee. Imagine my surprise when swooping ravens caught my eye in the front of the house. I looked out and sure enough, the ravens were swooping on and chasing off a fox! By the look of...
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    HELP Another dead broody hen/chicks

    In my bantam coop I had 12 hens and roos. It's an 8 x 10 shed, with an attached outside run. I went out tonight and one of my beautiful silkies was near death on the floor by the door and there were three dead chicks, freshly hatched as well as three more fresh out of the eggs and one starting...
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    Hawk in the tractor! RIP Lenny *pics*

    I walked out of my house on Thursday afternoon to see my mille fleur hen racing away from her run screaming. Typically she never leaves the run but had figured out how to scoot under the gate. Luckily she did (and took her four babies), went to the stone wall and hid in the bushes. When I...
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    HELP! Mama's nearly killed chicks... now what

    I have been letting my bantam hens brood in the coop. There were six hens brooding in different corners of the coop (they won't use the nesting boxes). These are two red cochins, two frizzles and two silkies. In one corner a red cochin and a silkie were "raising" two chicks that hatched about...
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    Brooding hens crushing the eggs/killing chicks

    In my bantam coop I have several brooding hens. So far they have hatched out two babies. However, in one corner of the coop three "moms" are tending the babies and a clutch of eggs. In other areas I have three others brooding. I was trying to let "nature" takes it course but in the last...
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    Hawks - They're everywhere

    Just saw this link - absolutely hilarious. Cooper Hawk in the Library of Congress "What one birder at the Library billed (no pun intended) as a Cooper’s Hawk–crowd-source a correction if I’m wrong–somehow recently got into the Library’s majestic Main Reading Room, and has been winging about...
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    What killed my mille fleur

    Went out this morning to open up the tractor and found my Mimi dead lying in the snow next to the door. The tractor is ALMOST completely covered over the top with deer netting. Near the tractor there is an opening but the rest is covered. Whatever did it killed her right there, very little...
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    Baby out of the coop and now I can't catch her!

    One of my mille fleur's hatched out a single chick. She got so excited that she had a baby she abandoned the other eggs. Well, things have been going great for the last two weeks - until today. The little tractor they are in had to be separated when the two roos decided they hated each other...
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    One chick hatched, hen left the eggs

    My mille fleur hen went broody so I let her keep her eggs and hatch them out herself. She had a clutch of about six eggs. The first one hatched on the 5th, and as soon as it did, she became super mom. Keeping the baby warm, bringing it to food/water and keeping the chick out of trouble. I...
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    Mama hatched an egg- now what??

    I let one of my mille fleur's brood out her eggs. I went out this morning and there was a tiny little baby with her. Now what? This is the first hatch I've ever had. Do I let mom do what mom's do, or do I need to do something as well. In this section of the coop there is just mom, dad and...
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    Fox doing a good job for a change.

    This is a pic of a fox with her mouth full of rats. She was trotting down a sidewalk in a very residential area (in a city a couple towns away). She got just past me and then ducked down a driveway and went out towards the woods. Now, if the foxes around here would only go after the rats and...
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    Rats - a new way to erradicate them.

    One of our coops is a 10 x 12 shed that has been insulated for the bantys in the winter. Well, sure enough a couple rats made their way into the ceiling of the coop a few months ago. We knew they were in there, but they avoided the traps at all costs and obviously multipled a lot. Finally...
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    Frizzles dying - need advice.

    I have some red cochin frizzle bantams. In the last three days, two have died and one about a week or so prior to that. All three of these were pretty bald, like they were in the middle of a bad moult. The first was very obviously and badly prolapsed and was dispatched. The other two in the...
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    Prolapse and bantams

    I have had two bantams prolapse real bad. One was a silkie and the other, just two days ago was a frizzle. Since I have never had this happen with the larger birds, I wondered if this was a problem with the bantams, that they are prone to prolapse or if it's just bad luck. Also the frizzle...
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