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    Bumblefoot - what else can I do to prevent

    Yesterday my daughter noticed our austrolorp has a swollen foot. Much reading later and I now know more than I ever thought I'd need to know about Bumblefoot (She has the black scabs on both feet). We are not planning to take her to the vet ($100 to walk in the door and they said it would be...
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    Is it ok to order chicks for beginning of Sept for Massachusetts?

    Hi, We got our first chicks in end of March and kept them in their brooder until they were 6 or 8 weeks old and by that time it was warm enough for them to be in the coop. We recently lost 3 chickens and were thinking of getting chicks. We will be traveling a bit in August so we would order them...
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    Predator got a chicken now two dead in coop

    we had ten girls that were 18 months old. We had managed to avoid losing any even with some free ranging. Two weeks ago a coyote (we think, maybe a juvenile or a fox- my neighbor saw it, we didn't) got one bird. The rest have been in the run since. Wednesday I found a hen dead in the run. No...
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    Suggestions for how to organize eggs in the fridge and winter laying

    We have a mixed flock of 10 hens that were born last spring. My husband made a skelter that we had displayed on our table and it was great because you always knew which egg to use first. We live in New England and it is full on winter here so since the eggs are sometimes super cold when we get...
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