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    Can I eat a chicken with a coyote bite mark?

    Yesterday a coyote got into our chicken run and killed 10 chickens. Some died of a heart attack and we'll eat those for sure. Others were bitten, but there's only one small tooth puncture or two. And their ribs were broken (from the mouth). We processed those but don't know if we should eat...
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    Help my turkeys keep dieing!

    I got two 6-week-old bronze turkeys from a woman who ordered them through a feed store and raised them. One was killed by a dog, but the other one died from I don't know what - a disease or something. He was healthy one day, and then one afternoon he was standing in the corner of the chicken...
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    Santa Cruz breeders?

    Hey folks, I'm wanting to expand and diversify my flock of dual purpose chickens, but don't want to go the hatchery route. Everyone on craigslist just takes hatchery chicks and raises them and sells them, ditto the feed stores. Anyone in the greater Santa Cruz area breeding their own dual...
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    Dominique roo + Buff Orpington hens = ?

    I'm trying to breed dual purpose chickens "au naturale" instead of with an incubator and brooder, but my hens aren't cooperating. I have Barred Rock hens (zero broodiness so far) and Dominique hens (just enough broodiness to fake me out, but they don't really do the job). I also have a...
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    Put chicks under broody who has only been sitting 1 week?

    Hi all, Out of 24 eggs in the incubator I'm only getting two chicks, looks like. Oh well. I happen to have a broody hen but she has only been sitting for a week. The chicks are due in three days (Mother's Day!) and I'm thinking of trying to put the chicks under my broody after they hatch (and...
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    Please help - Marek's?????

    Now two of my 16 hens have died. They had similar symptoms: inability to walk (weak?), pasty butts, almost no pooping, and what poop there was was very green. And super, super nasty smelling. The pasted butts weren't green, that stuff was tan colored. We have not changed their diets, added...
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    Rooster - Poopy Eggs connection?

    After we got our roo and he was fertilizing the girls, I noticed many of our hens' vents were very poopy and they laid a lot of poopy eggs. That had never happened before. I never did anything about it (laziness, I admit). So our poor roo was killed by a bobcat last week and suddenly there...
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    Help! My rooster is attacking me!

    Here's the story: I found out after the fact that my animal-sitter couldn't come close up the coop after dusk on Saturday, so she went early and "shooed" them in. But my roo thought she was attacking the girls, so he tried to attack her. The next morning, he did it again as soon as she let...
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    Should we eat a chicken that had Marek's?

    Don't know if this should be under Meat Birds or Diseases, but we lost one dual-purpose to (most likely) Marek's Disease, and were wondering if others show symptoms should we just cull and bury them or could we eat the meat? I know humans can't catch Marek's but it seems wrong to eat a sick...
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    Help - pullet can no longer walk at all

    One of my 5 month old Barred Rock pullets was limping the other day and now cannot walk at all. I've examined her and there is no injury I can find. She doesn't flinch or make a sound when I feel her legs and stretch them out. If I put her up on her feet, she just collapses. All we can do at...
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    My chickens won't explore the tall clover!

    Hey everyone - My 40 pullets/cockerels (3 months old) have about a 1/3 acre fenced area for foraging daily. My DH weed whacked some of it so we wouldn't get ticks while walking to the coop. They love the weed whacked area and don't venture into the rest of the place, which is as tall as they...
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    How to get my 6 week olds back in the coop?!?

    Hey everyone - my 40 Barred Rock "babies" are getting rather big - feathered out at 6 weeks old. The weather here is fine so I'm letting them out during the day. My problem is getting them back in. We're too nervous to let them stay out until dusk, so we have to convince them to go in when...
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    My chicks stuck in the mail - argh!

    I ordered 40 straight run Barred Rocks from Meyer Hatchery and they said they'd arrive Wed 22nd through Fri 24th. When they didn't come on Friday, I called the hatchery, who said they were sent on THURSDAY. Dang it! Now my chicks are sitting all day today (Sunday) in some post office...
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    How much do pullets sleep?

    I have three pullets I've raised from chicks, and am wondering if they are sleeping too much. They are 2 1/2 months old. They seem to take a few (3? 4?) naps each day. Is this normal?
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    Advice please - how long do I need to be chicken-less?

    My three dear hens are very sick with a respiratory disease and antibiotics in their water didn't work. I have been advised to cull them all, spray everything down with bleach water, and then wait a month before getting any more hens. I never want to have to go through this again, so I really...
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    Will sick hens ever lay?

    I was stupid and bought sick pullets. And mixed them with my healthy hen. Of course my hen got really, really sick. Now she's past the crisis (did 8 days antibiotics and vitamins in the water) but all have permanently runny noses and some sneezing. Otherwise normal behavior. But no one is...
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    13 month hen suddenly sneezing constantly and moaning

    Hi, I was down to one hen, then 6 days ago introduced 2 new pullets. Yesterday my original hen started sneezing and now it's nearly constant. No discharge, no watery eyes, funny moaning sound but not with every breath. Acting otherwise healthy. Isolated her in the broody cage last night...
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    Help! Egg bound and it feels strange...

    Hi - I've finally figured out that one of my hens is egg bound - and it's a whopper of an egg, too. I felt the egg from the outside, manipulated it toward the back, gave her a sitz bath in the sink, got rid of the stuck-on poop and even did a little digital exploring inside her. I could feel...
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    Help! Egg bound and it feels strange...

    Hi - I've finally figured out that one of my hens is egg bound - and it's a whopper of an egg, too. I felt the egg from the outside, manipulated it toward the back, gave her a sitz bath in the sink, got rid of the stuck-on poop and even did a little digital exploring inside her. I could feel...
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    Egg bound but feel something...

    Hi - I've finally figured out that one of my hens is egg bound - and it's a whopper of an egg, too. I felt the egg from the outside, manipulated it toward the back, gave her a sitz bath in the sink, got rid of the stuck-on poop and even did a little digital exploring inside her. I could feel...
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