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    Chicken problems

    About a year ago, I had to cage my chickens due to predators, specifically hawks. I have been told that the raptor rehabilitation center at the local university has gotten so many injured raptors that they have just started releasing them locally as they get well. Some of them are obviously...
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    Chicken Gone Rogue

    I have a ~3.5 year old leghorn who decided to quit roosting with the other chickens in the hen house about a month ago. She hangs out with them during the day, but then disappears close to sundown. At first, she would roost on the fence, and I would catch her after sunset and put her in the...
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    chickens eating bullet casings?

    I had to shoot a coon who got into my hen house a few nights ago, with my 22. I went the next day to retrieve the casings, but I could not find any of them. Could the chickens have eaten them? If so, will they hurt them and will their eggs be toxic from lead on the casings?
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    accused of killing neighbor's chickens

    Something killed about 20 of my neighbor's chickens without eating them. Their property backs up to a state park. I have a ~35 pound 2-yr old mutt. He is very timid and I regularly leave him with my chickens all day, even for days at a time when I'm on travel (someone comes and feeds him over...
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    LED lights for winter use in the henhouse

    I am considering installing an LED light in my henhouse on a timer so that my chickens will continue laying over the winter. Does anyone have experience in doing this? I've read that LED light has less red than incandescent bulb light; so I wonder if that might be a problem. My chickens are...
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    No eggs

    We have 19 hens and a rooster. We purchased chicks in June of 2013 and started getting eggs around Thanksgiving of last year. For a few months in the winter and spring, we were getting about 12-15 eggs a day. That started decreasing around June. Now we might get an egg a week. I realize...
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    rooster issues

    Hi. Our chickens (17 hens and 1 rooster) are about 25 weeks old now. We are getting a few eggs each day. The rooster is not aggressive around me at all. But he attacks anyone else who goes in the pen unless I am with them. I have to travel with work occasionally, so this is not acceptable...
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    chicks with Merek's?

    I bought 26 chicks from E-Foul (Welsummers, Speckled Sussex, Austrolops and Ameraucanas), one male in the bunch. At about 3 weeks, 7 have what looks like Marek's: they can barely or not at all walk, and one has its head twisted down. They have only been in my garage and there have never been...
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    sick chicks

    Our chicks are about 2.5 weeks old. This morning several were laying on their sides and cannot stand up. No bloody diarrhea, no trouble breathing. Please help!
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