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    swollen foot , but no scab

    my hen started limping yesterday and still is today. I checked her foot and it is slightly warm to the touch, (more yesterday) , but she has no discoloration or scabs. She is still eating and hopping around so I put hemmoroid cream on it to reduce the swelling hopefully. Is there anything else...
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    bad bad broody hatch

    I have 2 broodies , one is due today and the other in a week. They both started with 4 eggs each and thanks to other hens insisting on laying eggs in their boxes, they each had an egg crushed early on. Today was hatch day for the first one and I got up to find a fully formed dead chick in the...
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    rooster injured another hen

    My black austrolorp roo is rough on the dismount and had previously skinned one side of one of my hens. We Iodined her and put a hen apron on and she did fine monitered with the rest of the flock while she healed. I noticed last night that he got another one , only this time he did not skin as...
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    oversexed rooster ?

    I had 2 australorp roosters tending to 14 hens. Today my 2nd in command was sent to freezer camp due to biting and eating the crown off of the lead rooster while he was trying to mate the hens , he runs from my lead guy at any other time . My sister says that anything over 12 hens will cause...
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    how do you train dogs ?

    I have just gotten my first chickens and they are all only a few days old, I also have an australian shepard mix , a red tick hound, and now a rat terrier. The hound is sometimes howling at my pen, but I sprayed her nose with vinegar and she stopped. The rat terrier watches them when she thinks...
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    garden zone

    I am getting my first chicks ever ( austrolorps) and I was wondering if they will do alot of damage to my garden and flower beds ? I would like to let them free range, but I can fence them if I need to. My husband says that a standard fence will not keep them in, they will just hop over, do I...
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