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    Pigment loss

    Sorry for duplicate post. I wrote it on the phone, not sure what happened. I don't seem to be able to delete the extra one? ------------------------------- One of our chickens has lost most pigment in the past 6 weeks. She is also quite ragged looking. She was a medium brown before. She a as...
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    Chicken losing pigment in feathers and head

    One of our chickens has lost most pigment in the past 6 weeks. She is also quite ragged looking. She was a medium brown before. She a as FSO hasn’t laid an egg in quite a while. Here is the back story leading up to this: We have three Isa Browns left. One was injured badly during a fox attack...
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    Injured chicken recovering but being threatened by other chickens

    We had a fox jump our five foot fence a couple of weeks ago. One chicken was injured, couldn't get up for a couple of days and we nursed her first in the house, then she was able to go back to sleep in the hen house on the floor and one night she was back up on the roost with the others. She...
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    Chickens that don't like Mealworms?

    Bought a bag of mealworms as recommended by our store when our ISA Browns were just a few weeks old. They refuse to eat them. I keep trying, maybe one chicken takes a peck at one and breaks a piece off, never comes back for more. They love live bugs of any kind so they certainly seem interested...
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    Going Electric

    Being a good American, I just increased my defense budget again... Here is my brand new electric fence addition. About $80 total from Tractor Supply, actually not that expensive, and I even went with the stronger "5 mile" controller, mainly because it has better mounting options and a separate...
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    Chickens taken at night through vertical sliding door?

    Hi. I wrote an introduction this morning. Have been getting a lot of advice through reading here over the past few months, but this time I wanted to write and finally registered an account. We lost our second chicken last night. The first one was taken a week ago, and I thought it was because...
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    New member in Vermont

    We got chickens 12 weeks ago. Covid-19 might have had something to do with it. And what a surprise how lovely these creatures are! They are really fun. I have been getting a lot of advice from this forum as I built our coop and fence, not to mention to keep the little ones alive in their first...
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