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    What animal did this?

    I "had" 9 chickens. 1 roo and 8 hens. I went out the other morning to feed them & found two of them dead. Both girls had their bottom half of body chewed on & mostly gone. They were just laying on the ground. One definately fought back due to all the feathers on the ground. I have had coyotes...
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    Ducks okay to stay outside?

    I know, it's a crazy questions especially since 'wild' ducks don't build duck houses!! This is the first year I have had ducks. I have a pair of white crested. They hang with my pair of bb-bronze turkeys and the four of them stay outside all the time. Their pool had some ice in it but they...
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    Turkey Hen not laying now

    I took my hen to the local feed store to hopefully mate with their tom. I left her for 5 days. There was a lot of afternoon delight going on since the back of her head is all tore up. She had started laying in Dec '08 atleast 6 eggs a week. She has been home for 10 days and no eggs as of...
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    Hen not getting new feathers after molt

    my br hen started molting in late March. She looks so sad now. She has not grown any new feathers on her chest and head. She looks really strange. She has started laying again but what can I do to help her? I started putting vitamins & electrolytes in the drinking water a month ago but no...
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    Girls not using nesting box

    I again am batteling with my girls to use the nest boxes. I have 9 hens old enough to lay and 8 do lay and one is suragate to new baby pullets. I kept them in the hen house over winter and they all layed great & in the nest boxes. I have a cluster of 3 boxes. Now that they are free range...
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    Soak in salt water???

    This is my 4th year of doing meat birds and I have never soaked them in salt water. This is the first time I have read about it. So how, why, and just why?
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    My turkey hen is laying eggs???

    I have a bronze turkey hen (the lone survivor of original 7 I bought to raise as presents to my family members for Nov & Dec) I named her 'Lucky' since she was the only one to make it to maturity(the other six were eaten by a predator, the last two killed by my dog). In December I noticed an...
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    Hens not laying in nest boxes

    Help!! I have a total of 11 hens. 7 are of laying age. Only 2 are laying in the nest boxes. My RIR simply refuses to lay in the boxes, I have placed faux eggs in the boxes. I have found her eggs in the strangest places. I have locked all the girls in the hen house for up to 4 days at a...
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    need info about meat birds

    Help! I need some advice about my cornish cross. I have 21 meat birds & this is my third year of raising them. The past two years I have kept them in the chicken coop & not let them outside. Coop is 6' x 7'. I also use same coop for my turkeys. There is a little door to an outside fenced in...
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