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    Making introductions

    Keets will be 7 weeks this Friday. For about the last week, this has been going on: There used to be more adults. I was down to 3, and last week one disappeared during the day. I guess the dominant male finally chased the other one off for good. Now those two - who are actually the parents of...
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    Raccoon

    Did head count one night, was a chicken short. Next night, another chicken was missing. Yesterday, a third chicken was gone, and and our rooster was missing most of his upper half. At the back of the coop is a long metal nesting box. The rooster had his legs sticking out the wire bottom of it...
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    Earl from Ohio

    (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? Had chickens when I was a kid, then as an adult I inherited my girlfriend's chickens. A once larger flock that has, over the years, diminished to just 2 original hens. (2) How many poultry beasts do you have right now and what...
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    RentACoop chick feeder

    Anyone use one of these? I bought one for my Guinea keets because I figure their food is expensive enough it'd be nice to cut back on waste. Delivery is running late, though. Curious what other people's experiences might be, whether I should get more or DIY another...
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    Rotten egg

    I noticed a bad smell in the incubator this afternoon and traced it to an egg with small droplets on its surface. I don't believe any drops went from the egg into the water channels, but it is humid inside an incubator so I don't know if that really matters. I took it outside and let it fall to...
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