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    lost a brown leghorn hen & 4 chicks to a snake (warning, dead hen pix)

    This is what a snake (probably a rat snake) can do. This was a year old full-sized brown leghorn hen with 5 x 2 week old chicks. They were in a metal dog kennel with extra smaller wire around the lower 2 feet and a plastic tarp cover. This kennel is inside a fenced yard with 3 grown livestock...
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    White vs. Brown leghorns

    I have had white leghorns off and on for years. Very active, incredibly productive and usually non-broody. I kind of quit buying them on purpose because they seem to be the #1 target for predators, especially night predators (It's no joke: white birds go first). Last year I bought a dozen brown...
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    pics/info of TSC's $399 coop

    I was stuck waiting on someone at TSC and took pix of the cheapest coop they had on the lot. This is said to be for 6 birds. The material is pine (not pressure treated), water paint stained, with a powder coated steel frame. It weighs 170# and can be bought assembled at the store or unassembled...
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    Male or female chick wings, Is this correct?

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    dog rights

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    Kennel conversion

    What I started with, bought on sale at Lowe's (open box but all the parts were there. I needed a new grow-out pen for this year's month old chicks. So I put up the kennel (easy) and installed the tarp cover (pain in the butt and I doubt it will last very long). Used leftover bits of garden...
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    Really dumb hen

    I have a Cinnamon Queen from a mixed order of chicks in early March. So she's not a baby. This hen has lived in the same coop, same 12 hour free range, same bunch of birds but after all this time she still cannot figure out how to get in the coop each evening. She'll run back and forth, seeing...
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    Fall 2024 Feed prices

    How are feed prices in your area? Going up? Down? I am in South Louisiana and prices dropped a little from last year but fairly stable. I just paid $18.99 for Kalmbach 22% lay pellets.
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    Waterer idea

    Anyone seen anything like this? It's from a post elsewhere. I ask because I have about 4 of those planters and beaucoup water bottles.
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    Snake proofing?

    I keep one broody hen at a time in an enclosed part of the pen. 3 different hens each hatched 5-6 chicks each (over the summer) of which all but 3 disappeared. The current hen went from 3 chicks to 1 this week. No bodies, no trauma, no disturbed pen/holes. All I can figure is rat snakes. The pen...
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    South Louisiana Extra Roo

    A late blooming Gold Wyandotte roo from this spring. Just feathering out. from a hatchery.
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    Louisiana Mixed Breed Wether (goat)

    Wether Goat, about 7 months old. He's brown with black trim and blue eyes. Unregistered F-1 Mini Nubian who took after the Nigerian Dwarf side of the family, he is bigger than an ND of comparable age. Tame, calm, easy to handle. Good to catch, lead & tie. Weight tape has him at 50lbs. (24" heart...
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    Cleaning out gas/diesel cans.

    What's the easiest and effective way to clean out old gas cans.I must have 15 gas and diesel cans and most have residue/old gas in them. Some of the double wall cans seem to have liquid between the walls. And while I am on the gas can topic, is there a good, somewhat universal aftermarket cap...
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    Young Wyandotte Rooster?

    From a March order of hatchery surprise pullets, no one else looks like this one. It has been wing-clipped, won't stay with the others and always looks rumpled.
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    Baby goat

    First baby of the season! This is Lulu, tricolor ND, born 11/8and weighing 3.5lbs.
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    Winter is coming...What is left on your to-do list?

    Although our winters are generally mild, I still have to do a little prep. I have to reroof one of the smaller coops. I have a fraying tarp on it now (I know, I was being lazy) I noticed all the tiedowns are swinging freely in the breeze so it's past time. I usually use corrugated wood strips...
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    Counting your chickens

    I have between 30-35 chickens, including 2 definite and 2 maybe roosters. (I gotta say, it's hard to get a good count of moving chickens). I plan on selling the Lavender Orpingtons before winter because they are the ones struggling most in this weather -- I won't be going forward with them next...
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    Roo?

    I believe it's a Cinnamon Queen but not sure. April hatch, from Mt.Healthy Hatchery. Time for the Autumn purge...
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    Lavendar orp roos?

    2 lavenders, I think they are roos. Both from Mt.Healthy hatchery order. 3 pics of each and they are both vicious little peckers who did not want to cooperate at all. Number1: Number 2
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    $5 Roo in South Louisiana

    February hatch, was an extra from Mt.Healthy Hatchery. 3 1/4lbs, docile so far. In Zachary, north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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