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    Foxes and Electric Fencing? Help PLEASE!

    Our fox issues have been keeping me up at night. Over the last three months we've had two fox raids, with a grand total of 12 hens lost. After the first attack which killed 12 on Easter Sunday, we installed an 8-strand electric fence around an acre of pasture and the barn. Everyone is locked...
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    BCM Roo survived fox attack -- what now?

    Our year-old Black Copper Maran rooster, Apollo, was attacked by a fox and left for dead last Tuesday morning. Four of his hens died. I found him at least an hour after the attack, limp but breathing in the pasture. It has now been a week. He stands occasionally for food/water but has a very...
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    Can you tell chick gender by tail feather development?

    We have a pair of Buff Brahma chicks (3 weeks old) and a pair of Speckled Sussex (two weeks old) and I'm wondering if the tail feather development is any way to tell the genders apart? In each pair, one chick has developed tail feathers dramatically faster than its counterpart. These were...
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    Supposed to be a Golden Laced Wyandotte?

    Bought this chick with a few Speckled Sussex and Buff Brahma's at Tractor Supply last week. He/She's supposed to be a Golden Laced Wyandotte, but doesn't look it to me. Not a bit of black fluff anywhere and her wings are feathering out buff. Any ideas? At the time I bought her/him, they also...
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    Help! My chicken swallowed a hair rubberband.

    My 3 year-old fed my 1 year old barred rock hen a purple, elastic hair tie. So far she seems okay (it happened late yesterday afternoon). Is there anything I should watch for? Will she digest it or will it become entangled in her intestines? I'd love some helpful advice, as we love these birds!
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