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    Moving out of State

    I am going to be moving from Virginia to New Orleans in August and would like to bring 3-5 of my favorite hens with me. To start with, do chickens (and cats) have to have health certificates to travel from state to state? I've heard many say, "NO, only large farm animals need health...
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    Dead Chicken!

    I'm not sure what is going on. Last night I went to go put the girls to bed and noticed one of my RIR hens was walking around real slowly on the ground. I went to catch her thinking that she would run away like usual. She didn't - she just stood still and let me pick her up and when I set her...
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    Horse and Chicken feed

    I live on a small hobby farm (19 acres) with all kinds of 4 and 2 legged critters. To cut back on the number of feed barrels that I use, I was wondering if it would be safe to feed my hens a high protein no molasses horse feed instead of layer feed and scratch?? They have pretty much the same...
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    What do you feed?

    What do you feed your layers? I was going to do a poll but couldn't quite figgure it out... 1. Layer crumbles? 2. Layer pellets? 3. Scratch/grains? 4. Table scraps?
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    Worming??

    Do you worm your chickens? I'm just curious how many of you out there worm your chickens. If you do, what do you use and how often? Can the eggs still be considered ORGANIC? Thank You!
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    What is going on???

    I have 19 hens aging from 1-3 years old. Last summer and the winter before they averaged 10-15 eggs a day. For some reason for the last 5 months the egg numbers keep going down. Yesterday I was so disappointed to find only 3 eggs!!! 19 chicken and only 3 eggs.... what is going on??! I have 2-3...
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    What killed them ??!!

    I was away this weekend on a business trip and just before returning my roommate called me with bad news..... 6 of my chickens were missing and assumed dead and one was most definitely dead . Out of 16 chickens the 6 that were taken were my named ones. The chickens at the time, from what I can...
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    Blue Andalusian - Roo or Pullet?

    Assuming this is a Blue Andalusian chick - would you guess it is a pullet or a young rooster? We ordered all pullets and this chick was one of four free Rare Breed bonus chicks we received. The chick is now about 7 weeks old. I looked at a bunch of Blue Andalusian pullet pictures on line and...
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    Blue Andalusian - Roo or Pullet?

    Assuming this is a Blue Andalusian chick - would you guess it is a pullet or a young rooster? We ordered all pullets and this chick was one of four free Rare Breed bonus chicks we received. The chick is now about 7 weeks old. I looked at a bunch of Blue Andalusian pullet pictures on line and...
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    What breed has blue legs?

    6 weeks ago we ordered some chicks on line and when they were delivered it turned out that we also receive 4 "rare breed" chicks. They did not state what breed they are or what sex they are (we ordered all pullets). I have one chick I'm assuming is one of the "rare breed" chicks that at 6 weeks...
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    Need Advice

    Is there a way to prevent or discourage my chickens from going in my front yard and digging up all my flower gardens or hopping the fence (3-4 ft) and destroying my vegetable garden??? I've gone outside a dozen time to find the chickens in my flower beds and my flower bulbs and mulch scattered...
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    Beaks and Spurs???

    Does anyone know if there is a humane way to file down or trim a roosters beak and spurs? My rooster 'Whitey' seems to be getting a little too aggressive with the girls lately and is starting to tear some of them up while doing his roosterly deed. While mounting, he grabs a hold of the feathers...
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    Problem Rooster

    I have a rooster who I raised from a small chick and who has always been very friendly. Over the last couple of month he has singled out and started picking on one of my older and favorite hens, "RED", who use to be the Queen of the roost. Yesterday I went to let the chickens out to free range...
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    Is it a RAT???

    I just discovered last night that we "may" have rats. I thought it was mice again so I've been setting mouse traps at night near the holes and nothing. Yesterday I bought some new more human finger friendly traps and set them right after dark. Two hours later I went to go check them and one had...
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    Rooster Issue

    I have a year old mixed breed rooster who is basically a pet whom I do not want to get rid of. The problem is that he is overly aggressive to my hens and is just tearing them apart. It's to the point now that if they see him they tuck tail and take off running the other direction. The rooster...
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    What do you think?

    For the past 2 weeks our egg production seems to have decrease. We normally get 4-6 eggs a day and this past week we have been getting only 1-3 eggs a day. We have a fairly good sized chicken coop with a large outdoor run and have 6 laying hens and about 10 five month old pullets housed there...
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    What should I do??

    I am new with all this stuff so any and all advice will be greatly appreciated!!! One of my hens has started brooding (been on eggs for 7 days). We have 6 hens that are laying, 1 big rooster, and 10 five month old pullets. I assume the soon to be mamma hen is laying on almost 20 eggs right now...
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    Not sure what to do...

    One of my hens has started brooding (been on eggs for 7 days). We have 6 hens that are laying, 1 big rooster, and 10 five month old pullets. I assume the soon to be mamma hen is laying on almost 20 eggs right now since we did not get any eggs at all for 3 days and only 2 on the fourth day. We...
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    Barred Rock Chicks - Roo's or pullet's?

    Last Saturday I bought 3 Barred Rock Chicks. Can you tell if they are roo's or pullets please? Hopefully I loaded the pictures correctly - there should be 5 pics :-)
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    Barred Rock - Roo or pullet?

    Is there any way to tell if my 3 Barred Rock chicks are male or female? They are approximately 3 months old.
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