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    A Rat???

    I quit with chickens earlier this year but through a string of events I up until last week had 5 fancies 1 Frizzed Cochin and 4 polish Juveniles. All have been happy healthy and growing great. Earlier last week I found two in hen house dead, one had an injury on neck and the other had had its...
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    concrete and chickens

    OK I am not new to chickens, probably been 12 years since I started. My story...the first of the year I got rid of all my birds due to increased predators, limited free ranging time and peens that needed repair and expanding. I had intentions of tearing all 3 peens and coops down. Flash...
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    Premade coop advice needed

    Hello everyone its been awhile. I gave away all my full size hens earlier this year, my pens need to much work( ice storm damage, termites) and I am in middle of a home remodel so no time or $$ for repairs. I was done with chickens until a buddy showed me his pair of Old English Game birds...
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    Dark Cornish question

    I have read to conflicting descriptions of Dark Cornish Chickens, one says they are an active bird that forages for itself very well, the other described them as being docile and poor foragers? I believe the first statement to be true, but wanted to check with others on this. Which is it and...
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    Leghorns for meat

    I prefer a smaller bird for meat, I currently buy fryers for baking, broiling, ect. I was thinking of getting 15 white Leghorn Roos from a hatchery, its called the frypan special and mostly let these birds free range in the woods behind my home and shut them up at night in the coop at night...
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    bareback advice needed for new pullets

    yesterday I picked up some pullets from feed store, Rocks and EE. 2 of the EEs have barebacks, i did not really want bareback birds but most of the EE were Bareback< so i took them. Anyway what should i do to help them recover fom the barebacks quickly? So far all i have done is feed a...
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    Midget Whites and Predators

    OK, finally convinced myself I can butcher a bird, getting a few meat chickens to start and from there want to move to turkeys. I like the size and everything I read about the midget whites...question is predator protection....what is required for turkeys, particularly MWs? I have about an...
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    Roost help

    soon I will be remodeling an older once portable a-frame chicken coop/run (tractor) I will be turning the hole thing into a permanent chicken house and adding a large chicken yard. I am running up on the problem as to how to place the roost in the house for optimal space useage. The current...
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    grass fed birds question

    OK I had layers at least for the last 5-6 years...now thinking about adding meat birds for a healthy choice in meats. This may sound stupid, but I'm gonna ask...is it possiable to raise meat birds strictly on grass and forage? or must there be commercial supplements in the food. Just looking...
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    Silkie Coop and Pen question

    OK, I ;m gonna try my hand at Silkies again, my first try netted me a pen full of Sikie Roos. Just my luck. Anyway if you had to design a perfect pen for Silkies what would you have? I'm asking because the original Silkie pen is full of full size layers now and I want to build the ideal...
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    Strange posture

    Soory for vague title, but know good way to describe. Subject, approximatley a 3 year old Black Sexlink hen, completely average in size and weight. Symptoms, Walking very elongated and holding bottom end down towards the ground and wabbles as she walks, She is eating and drinking well and...
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    Chicken Snake question

    recently had another chicken snake attack. I have killed 5 large ones this summer apparently there are more. Anyway it ate all the fertile eggs one of my broodies was sitting on plus 1 GOLF BALL. Do you reckon the golf ball will kill it or will it be able to regurgitate it??? Thanx, G
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    Behavior and weather

    Hello. just a quick question or opinion request. My normally docile, quiet, could care less about the guy feeding them hens, all of a sudden started freaking out today. Flying erradically around the pens like someone was chasing them. Anyway do you guess it could have something to do with...
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    Trapping a snake??

    I have killed 2 large chicken snakes this week, today I find all the eggs one of my broodys was sitting on gone. So there has got to be at least 1 other snake. So since I can not sit and watch chickens 24 hours a day, is it possiable to trap a snake? If you trick them into eating a golf ball...
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    Snake theory

    OK after dispatching my secound chicken snake this week I have theory. Snakes can smell eggs with chicks in them. Everytime I have hen on eggs I find a snake, no hens on eggs no snakes. Could be just happening by chance but I wonder if any of you have noticed a patten. Thanx, G
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    Dead Broody question, Drowning? Update

    Ok odviously not an emergency, I had a black Sexlink approx 2 years old, she went broody from time to time. This time she was sitting on some dummy eggs until some fertiles I had ordered arrive. Any back to storey, she's been broody 2 weeks, gets off next to eat and drink. Yesterday I find...
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    Honey Bee question

    I apologize if this has been asked but I could not find the right post. We are thinking about getting some honey bees but I have one concern.........we have tons of Lantana growing in our yard, only thing the deer will not eat, I have read that Lantana is toxic if injested............so the...
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    Wanted fertile White Leghorn eggs in S.C.

    Hello, I am looking for a few fertile white Leghorn eggs in the lowcountry of SC, let me know if anyone has any available and the cost. Thanx, G
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    Soup question

    Hello, I have a question, not to long ago I bought a Chuck Roast and cooked a chuck roast that turned out to be tastelss and tough. I'm not one to waste food so I cut it up and boiled it until it was falling apart, needels to say it became the base for a very large quatity of vegatable/beef...
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    Predator, what is it.

    In the last month I have lost two hens, to what I don't know. Both have been lost at night. One had been pulled through the 2x4 welded wire. I have 1 inch chicken wire up tree feet all the around the welded wire. Nothing has dug in the is 3 feet of welded wire out from the actual pen and...
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