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    MASSIVE hen injury. need advice! PLEASE!

    Saturday and Sunday nights there was some sort of attack on my coop. Found a dead bird sunday morning and monday found 4 birds with injuries, one massive. One of my austrolorps is ripped open from breast bone, up her neck, and down her back past her wing joints. There is no skin covering her...
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    Not Dark Brahma, so what is it?

    Got some chicks at the feed store that were in the Dark Brahma bin, but they don't have feathered legs. Any ideas?
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    How old to stay outside?

    how old do chicks need to be before they can be kept outside full time? I'm wanting to acquire some more hens but can't seem to find any of laying age, and don't know how young i can get and not have to keep them inside (my house is too crowded as it is, lol).
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    Hens not laying, why?

    I bought 7 sex link hens at a chicken swap on 8/18. Gave 3 to a friend (I keep my chickens at her place). Supposedly, at the time I purchased them, they were all laying, or so I was told. I figured it would take a couple of weeks for them to adjust to a new place and they would begin laying...
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    Can you use DLM in a tractor?

    I built a tractor for my girls. large rectangle wired bottom with a coop on top of half of it. it has a removable floor that slides out for easy cleaning (most of the poop and shavings/hay just fall as its pulled out, then it gets sprayed off). The Deep Litter Method sounds like a great...
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    New and need help! sneezing, labored breathing and white spots on ear lobes

    Saturday we went and bought our first chickens. We got 7 sex link hens, all about a year old. yesterday i noticed one of them was making a snoring sound and a few sneezes or coughs. today 2 more have runny noses and are making the sounds and one of those has white spots on her ear lobes. None of...
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