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  1. chicken ridl

    missing head

    Could a hawk be doing this? I have a net over the top but I have found a dead bird every couple of days in the pen with no head. I do not have any water close by. I do have hawks around a lot.
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    24 hours and all is good

    Made it thru the first 24 hours. Was a little scared. Never had turkeys before. Everyone was going on about how dumb they are. I started them like I do my chicks. Took each one out of the box and into the water. I had very little bedding on the floor. Sprinkled the starter food on the floor...
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    lime on the floor

    I have a wooden floor. I cleaned it out last night and it's real damp. Will it hurt the birds to put lime down and then some straw? I have it all opened up to try to dry it out.
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    Turkey shelter

    What kind of shelter do turkeys need?
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    new roost

    I read on here some were someone made there root out of 2x4's. layed flat so the birds can roost on the 4'' side. So I changed mine out and put in the new 2x4's. And it is working out really well they sit up there and can cover there feet with there breast feathers to keep there toes from...
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    only 2 eggs per 6 ameraucanas why?

    My ameraucanas are 8 months old. I have 6 hens and I only get 1 or 2 eggs a day. Why so little?
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    giant whites or midget whites

    This will be my first time with turkeys. I don't think I want 25-35 lbs turkeys. But why are the midgets so much more money to get day olds?
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    help hen is like wheezing

    I have an Americana that I have had since it was a day old. They havent even started to lay yet. I noticied a stange noise from the pen and whatched the girls to see what was going on. I have one that is making a strange wheezing like noise. And her mouth is open when breathing. What could that...
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    WHY the girls are laying in the grass not in the box?

    I have 22 barred rocks. The pen is 36 x 48. On the back end the grass was tall this spring when I built the pen so I left it that way. I figured that would give them some place that had some shade and a good place for bugs to gather. My nesting box is a 10 hole metal box were the eggs can roll...
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    There all in the freezer

    Butchered all 60 of my cornish rock X. Thanks to the help from BYC all the post I have read, the Whizbang plucker, and most of all my great friends who gave up there Saturday to help. I had all hens. they were 10 wks old. I had an average of 5.5lbs and one was 7.0. I had $7.47 per bird. Not...
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    Cornish rock X

    I am ready to butcher on Saturday. I have one bird that is not very active. It is a smaller bird and just lays in the mudd around the hanging water. It's a real mess. It's not even very active when I am filling the feeders. Should I butcher this bird or just kill it and get rid of it?
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    chicken plucker

    I built the whizbang plucker. A friend of mine used it this weekend and said it didn't work. The legs and wings kept getting caught. It seams to be running pretty fast. Help please.
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