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    Snakes.....bird netting, chicken wire and chain link fence

    Thought I would post this. In the last seven days I have had at least four snakes in my chicken yard. Four snakes that had to be killed because they were caught up in the bird netting, chicken wire and chain link fence. When we added on my DH was out of town so I did what I could. I did not feel...
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    Summer 2012 and losing chickens to the heat........

    Just went out to water again and check for eggs. One chicken dead under the satellite dish and two down and barely moving. My DH helped me get the live ones out and he took care of the dead one. I give fresh water several times a day. There is shade in all four coops and run and I have added...
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    Need some advice on recently hatched chick

    Um.....had some broody issues and had to bring a couple of clutches in and put them in the incubator. Problem is that the eggs are all different ages and I have candled and culled the not developing ones. They have started hatching. Two right away. One the next day. One the next. There were...
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    Um.....what is up with this egg?

    Went out to get the eggs. This is one of the eggs I got......amazingly strange. What causes this? Let me tell you....it is HOT here in the Great State of Arkansas. Could that cause this?
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    Racoon #5 for the year!

    Good thing the traps were set! Just got #5....BELIEVE they are out there and set your traps.
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    Sad story of a broody hen and a snake

    I have been laid up with foot surgery. Yesterday my doctor released me to heel walk with the boot she gave me. Could not wait this morning to go out and let the chickens out as it has been a month since I have been out there. I have a broody hen who sat for 21 days on eggs that did not hatch...
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    Eggies....what do you think?

    They keep advertising them on TV. Was wondering if anyone had tried them. It might be the answer for those of us who want boiled eggs from our really fresh eggs. What do ya'll think?
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    Rooster and two and a half month old chicks/pullets

    Maybe this goes someplace else....move it if it needs to be moved. I have a year and two month old BO rooster in the big flock. Because of a racoon attack we moved 15 two month old chicks into the main flock and it went well. So far, up to now, the rooster has been great. The young ones have...
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    SOLD......my rooster!

    The Lone Rooster has been sold. Saved him from terror in the mixed flock and built him his own coop and run....then bought him some girlies of his own. Instead of appreciating my efforts he decided to try and kill me or breed me....I was never quite sure. After months of going into that run and...
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    Prayers....prayers for the people in Alabama

    Just saw on the news about the tornados in Alabama. I am in Arkansas and we have been dealing with storms for a week and a half now. Tornados were all around us in Oklahoma and Arkansas and flooding. I cannot imagine what it would be like to have been in a tornado the magnitude of the ones...
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    Power outage

    Had a three hour power outage last night. Not only do I have an incubator full of eggs but two week old chicks in the brooder in the garage. I immediately covered the incubator with a down jacket to retain the heat. Then I started trying to figure out what else I could do. I am in Arkansas and...
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    Broody hen...need help from the experts

    I have a broody hen....did not even think there was a hen in that flock that would go broody. Dark Cornish. She has been on the nest for five days now. I have a place I can move her to that she will be alone but can see the others but will be secluded. I need to know when to move her. I need...
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    I think I have one.....a BROODY

    I have a Dark Cornish that has been in the nest for three days now. Checked three times today and then when I put them to bed right at dark. She definatly has a dazed look on her face. She growled at me yesterday. And tonight I took the flashlight out and she is NOT on the roost. I know...
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    Can a Dark Cornish go broody????

    I have this chicken.....I was told she was a Dark Cornish...have also heard Cornish X but don't think that is right. She has been in the darkest corner nest box for about three days. Maybe it is just when I am going out there, but of course that is the nest that gets the most eggs so it is the...
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    Am thinking about selling my rooster

    I have a beautiful Barred Rock Rooster. He is good to his girls and finds them treats and stands guard over them. I just think he over does it a bit. He hates my guts. And my DGD. They don't free range but have plenty space in the run and coop. I am just really tired of being on guard when I...
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    Tiny chick...not sure she'll make it

    From my hatch from last week I have one tiny chick that I am not sure is going to make it. I have now taken her out of the brooder and have her in a box on top that is staying warm enough inside....she has vitamin/electrolyte water and feed. I have never seen her eat. She seems to have strength...
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    EE experts...I need a gender check please

    I was good with the fact that these two EE's my DGD bought were pullets. Finally we started getting a blue egg. Was in the last hatch I did and did not hatch. But....there have been no signs of another colored egg unless it would be a pinkish egg. Then there was a chick that hatched yellow with...
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    Play sand in the brooder ok? not ok?

    Just asking....
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    A good Hygrometer.....?

    Ok....tell me a good hygrometer that works and that you don't have to spend hours and hours calibrating???
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    Question about eggs in incubator on day 25

    I can't complain. I had a great hatch. I have 32 in the brooder out of 41. One light bulb at lockdown. One blood ring. And one chick I had to cull. I have six eggs left in the incubator. The last two that hatched were in there yesterday morning when I got up. My problem is: when do I give up...
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