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    The End of Free-Range

    I've come to the unhappy conclusion that I am going to have to stop allowing my birds out to for free range time. They have been quite happy to roam for most of the day for the last several years, but I have now lost most of my flock after a 2nd fox attack yesterday. The remaining birds will...
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    7 birds missing- trying to identify predator

    While free ranging today, seven of my chickens disappeared. I was not home at the time, but when I came home I found about five or six piles of feathers that could identify at least three of my birds. There are no other signs that anything went wrong. I am trying to figure out what might have...
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    Feed store blend vs. name brand feed

    I've been feeding my hens a feed blended by my local feed store, supplemented with Calf Manna. While I think they have been doing fine on this, I am always wondering if they are getting everything they need. Now a different store in town has started carrying Naturewise feeds, and I'm wondering...
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    9 week old sudden trouble walking

    I noticed this chick wasn't standing while eating today. When he got up, he stumbled a lot, then fell over. If one of his legs goes out from under him, he has a lot of trouble getting it back into the proper position. As best as I can tell he's having trouble with both his legs. I check them...
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    First predetor loss today; what should I do to protect the rest of the birds?

    Had my first loss today. I thought my run was secure, but I guess I have a weak spot. There is a small gap between my coop and the ground, and it looks like something used that gap to squeeze in and then dig into the run. It then looks like it cornered one of the hens inside the coop, killed...
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    Can I safetly move chickens together that know eachother but have never lived together before?

    I have 3 hens living indoors right now. 2 of the hens are sisters, and about 7 months old, and were living with their 3 brothers, but the boys started harrassing the girls to such an extent that the girls couldn't get at the food or the water, so, I brought the girls inside until I can get rid...
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    Multiple issues in hen; looking for ideas on what is wrong?

    Okay, about 5 days ago I noticed one of my hens has bumblefoot. I decided to try the tricide-neo treatment, before attempting surgery. We have been using that for five days now. Bumblefoot is not getting worse at this point; but not sure it is getting better, either. Other symptoms have been...
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    Hen roosting with juvaniles?

    My two oldest hens are about 20 months old. They live in the big coop with my rooster and 5 other hens, all of whom are between 10 and 6 months old. I also have 5 14 week old chicks, who live in the small a-frame coop. When I'm home, everyone free-ranges, and though they tend to stay...
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    Okay, who laid the egg?

    So, I have 1 rooster, 2 year old EE's, both of whom lay large blue eggs, 1 8 month old EE who lays a small green egg, 1 8 month old mixie that lays a large light brown egg, and a 26 week old welsummer who lays small speckled brown eggs. I also have an 18 week old wyandotte, and an 18 week old...
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    Pipped wrong end, worried about opening incubator to help

    I have 6 eggs in a Brinsea Mini Advance incubate. We are on day 20 of incubation. I came home from work today to find that three of the 6 have pipped, but one is pipped on the wrong end. A bit of the shell is off, and there is a small hole in the membrane. The membrane that I can see is...
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    Broken Egg, but little shell left?

    I was gone for a little while today. My main 'flock' has just been integrated, and everything seemed to be working fine, little to no scuffling going on. I have 4 hens, and I can identify all of their eggs. Before I left, one of the girls was in a nest box. She had dug through the shavings...
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    Combining two groups of chickens - I can't take the stress!!!

    Okay, I have two hens, Middie and Lonely. They are just over a year old, and have been together since hatching. They currently live in a smaller A frame coop/run, and have a few hours a day to free range. Then, I have my rooster, Cooper, and the two hens he hatched with, Pip and Red. They...
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    The Playhouse Coop Run

    Chicken math caught up with me. After swearing up and down I would not get more than 3 chickens until I had a couple years of experience under my belt, I somehow ended up with an incubator and some hatching eggs 9 months after acquiring my first 3 chicks. 6 of those eggs hatched, 2 ended up...
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    Free ranging a bird with a possible sprained leg?

    One of my hens is limping. I have two small groups of chickens outside right now, one containing my two older hens, the other a young rooster and the two pullets he hatched with. They are seperate for now, though I hope to one day combine them. Yesterday, the rooster got out of his pen, and...
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    Anyone know if I can give tylan and tetracycline at the same time?

    I have a hen who appears to have an upper resperatory infection. After seperating her, I started her on some tetracycline that I had left over from a previous hen's illness. It's been a little over a day since I started the tetracycline. I was reading up, and decided to purchase Tylan 50, as...
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    To process now or wait?

    I have 3 12 week old boys that are going to have to be butchered, since I have no room for extra roosters. I had planned on keeping them for a little while longer, but due to the weather, I cannot house them as I had planned on, and they are now stuck inside the house with their 3 hatchmates...
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    Mixed breed chicks - what might be the breed possibilities

    A lady I work with gave me some eggs for eating from her flock, then went off on an extended holiday, so I won't be able to ask her what she keeps until mid january. As I was getting ready to stick the eggs in the fridge, I remembered that she keeps roosters with her hens. Since I've been...
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    Brooder Temperature

    Okay, I think I'm okay, but I want to double check here. The brooder is the bathtub in my spare bathroom, so it can't really be moved. My house doesn't really regulate temperature really well. In the summer, when the AC is on the spare bathroom is the coolest room in the house, if the door...
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    Good pip location?

    I'm about as excited as I can be right now. I have 7 eggs in the incubator, and 3 have started to pip. If things go well, this will be my first successful hatch. My first attempt at incubation earlier this fall had 4 eggs develop to about day 18, and then stop. So these are my first to...
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    Covering my A-frame run for winter. Any suggestions?

    Well, it's supposed to snow next week, so I figured I better get to work on covering the chicken run. I hadn't really thought it through before, and now I find myself a little stumped. That's the coop and run above. The girls are used to having some free range time right now, but with...
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