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  1. DixxieChick

    Roosters Ganging up on Hens

    I have about 60 chickens. 12 are last year's adult hens, and the rest I bought from a hatchery via Rural King, born early August. I ordered two Black Copper Maran roos and two blue egg layer roos (maybe Easter Eggers?). There were five extra mystery chicks in with mine when i went to pick them...
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    Mildly Rotten Egg?

    I have about 40 chickens, last spring's babies and a motley crue of all different breeds, and about the last two months I have been getting an egg that smells rotten when cracked open. It doesn't smell atrocious like a rotten duck egg that didn't hatch in the summer heat, but gross enough that...
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    Any ideas on how to make a telephone pole look nice?

    We are making a dog run for our new German Shepherd pup. A 150 ft steel cable will stretch from the front corner of our house back past the run, almost to the woods. We have to sink a telephone pole in front of our house to do this. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make the pole visually...
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    Leg not working after hawk attack on 8 week chick; possible torn ligament. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

    I came up from the basement yesterday to commotion; went outside and a large hawk was struggling to untangle itself from the chicken wire that had been a temporary run for this year's chicks. After he flew away I found three babes huddling together nearby and Elsa, a Colombian Wyandotte and my...
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    Advice on Aggressive Rooster -- Keeps Going After All Of Us Including Young Kids

    Hi everyone, Our White Leghorn, Roosty, turned rotten this spring. He goes after all of us, especially my three year old son. He's drawn blood several times on my son, husband and I, and once it was running down my son's hand. He pecked my one year old daughter on the cheek(!). We have almost...
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    Hello Friends!

    Hi everyone! I live in northern Illinois with my husband, four children (all under 10 in 2020), two bickering sister cats and a gaggle of chickens. My friend moved and gave me her entire setup--coop, run, 12 chickens--in Dec '18. Our lives have been so much richer ever since! *Current...
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    Tore her heart out but didn't eat anything

    This afternoon I went out to put the girls away and could not find Oney, a salmon faverolle who spends all her time in the run. She was blinded in one eye by a hawk months ago and can't find her way back in if she goes out. I sent the older kids to look for her and they found her behind a tree...
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