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  1. swampwander

    Somewhat revisited-two hens attacking one

    I have a very docile austrolorp who is getting attacked by two of my more dominant hens, an orpington and a banty. They have pecked her head bald and seriously bloody a couple of times now to the point of serious scaring over one eye. I remove the perpetrators for some time and they immediately...
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    Brevard County FL Ordinance change

    These folks are trying to change the ordinances in Brevard FL that will allow you to have four horses on two acres, but no chickens and so on. Help sign the petitiion. many of us now keep chickens with the blessing of our neighbors but not our government...
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    Stumped on this one

    This is my second hen to behave this way. I attributed the first hen's death to the heat. They both start out with an eye problem. One eye, shut all the time, pupil fully dilated. Eating good, then get lethargic. This is where the two diverge. Thought sour crop with the first (her crop was...
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    New Coop

    I'm not patient like other folks here to show all the stages of my coop. But, I will give a lot of those folks kudos for posting and giving the rest of us good ideas. Our problem here in Florida isn't cold. It's heat and rian proofing with wind thrown in. Our old coop proved inadequate in TS Fay...
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    And you thought you had Egg and Owl problems..

    Posting this here because it doesn't quite fit anywhere else. This is a Great Horned Owls Egg. Laid last night, we think. This is where she laid it. It's a planter on the front of the main building for our government center. Nicely sheltered from the elements. Nice mulch to serve as nesting...
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    Keep finding eggs outside the nest boxes and coop??

    OK, to clarify a little more. I see one egg in the box early in the day. OK, that's fine. Come out to lock the girls up at night (free range in the yard during the day) and the egg is outside the nest box, outside the coop in the yard. Nesting jealousy?? What's going on?? So far none broken. But...
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