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    Possum daytime risk?

    I always put chicken food away at night. Last night I saw a possum eating crumbs off the ground. Now this morning an hour after sunrise, there are two possums snuggling and grooming 100 feet from my free-ranging chickens. The possums look pretty big, about 10 pounds each. I don't have any...
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    Tips for getting a chicken to sleep in the coop?

    So I went out of town and while I was away, a chicken showed up and lived independently for a few days, perching 5 feet up in the trees every night even though it's below freezing. When I came back I started moving her from her perch and putting her in the coop with the other chickens to sleep...
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    Tip to fix frozen electronic chicken door

    Today I figured out how to fix the Run Chicken door when it freezes and figured someone else might have this same issue. For the longest time, I thought it was the motor that was freezing, but it's actually only the door that slides up and down that's freezing. If the door is frozen stuck in...
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    Considering killing evil chicken

    I've never killed a chicken before and never wanted to. Up until this summer I had one rooster + 12 hens. They're all small/average, mostly 4 pounds, and all get along. They free range on one acre all day long. This summer my favorite hen (tiny 2 pounds and broody) hatched two new chicks...
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    Limping, can't figure out why

    4 months old rooster, otherwise healthy. He's not putting weight on his left leg for this past week. Once in a while he'll put his left toes down, but always keep that heel off the ground. Anything noticeable in the pics? Thank you!! heel off the ground. Anything noticeable in these pics...
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    Antibiotics - treat, pause, then treat again?

    I've got one chicken who has been sluggish for the last few months. A month ago I gave her Clavamox pills for 5 days and she got slightly better (maybe coincidence). Can I give her another 5-7 day treatment?
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    Hawk attack - what not to do

    So I think I killed my chicken by accident today. Last year I interrupted a hawk attack. My chicken was bleeding and in shock, sitting on the ground wondering what just happened. After 10 minutes she got up and was back to normal. Today I interrupted a hawk attack but my chicken was running...
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    Chicken woke up stumbling

    Blonde Sexlink 3 years old. All other chickens seem fine. One attacked her when she got nearby, so she's sitting down by herself. She eats when I throw down food and drank a lot of water when brought to her. I got some watery/foamy liquid out of her butt earlier. Her butt looks a little...
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    Candling for the first time on day 22

    Fertilized egg that never started developing?
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    First time letting broodys raise newborns - critique my setup please

    I raised a handful of store-bought chickens indoors last year but this is my first time letting broody chickens hatch and raise them in the coop. After spending a few hours admiring how cute the day-old chicks are, it's time to get down to business. Current setup: 2 broody hens. One with 1...
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    What's my chick been pooping the last few nights?

    It has the texture of cooked poultry
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    Egg production way down after switching from Nature's Best to KOFFI

    Egg production is half of what it used to be, immediately since the first day I switched. 4 days now, still getting only half the eggs. Maybe it's because it's not pelletized and the chickens avoid the grains that give them calcium? Anyone have this experience?
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    Tips on how to care for a one-eyed chicken

    So this morning, my smallest chicken survived a hawk attack. She's 3 years old and I'm pretty sure she's now blind in her right eye, which I think is the eye that she used to see things up close. After being frozen for a few minutes, she started walking around. I threw her favorite food in...
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    Post autopsy questions

    I'm sad to say that my 5-year-old Isa Brown died today. She had a bad winter molt and was a little off for the past months, and barely ate the last 5 days. I thought I felt an egg down at the bottom of her body below her butt, so tried to gently massage it up to her butt last night and gave...
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