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    My neighbor complains that my chickens visit his property

    I have been raising chickens for 6 years, and the girls go visit when they want bugs from his woods. He was complaining about my NEW electric fence that surrounds the cleared area of our land, concerned that I would neglect it and it would curl and interfere with his mowing the fence line. (He...
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    Community setting-does it work?

    Annie-not has been broody and sitting on her feet for weeks in the coop, and would not accept a nest of eggs in the large dog kennel I have for nesting mamas. So I finally gave her 6 eggs, and let her sit in "her" nest box. Well the 6 eggs jumped to 9, and then 4 eggs were kicked out, and...
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    Weapon suggestion

    I have been raising chickens for over 2 years now, I'm still a newbie, I know. Until recently I lost only a couple birds a season due to wild predators, and that is reasonable since I let my birds forage and I normally have 30 or more chickens. I've seen bob cats, coyotes, skunks and possums...
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    How long to recover from "heatstroke"?

    Had a bad day yesterday, lost one pullet to the heat and a second young pullet was brought in near death. I cooled her, held a towel wrapped polar ice block to her feet and next to her until she would open her eyes and take a sip a water, then put her in the hospital crate w/ food, water and...
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    Only one "problem" hatch

    My first hatch went amazingly well! I set 25 eggs, had 5 duds that I took out around day 15. I though Sat was day 21, but Thurs afternoon I had 2 chicks hatch, 2 more overnight, and then through this afternoon, all but one successfully hatched and they are in the brooder. The last one pip and...
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    Surprise!

    Today is day 18 and I have basically put the incubator in lock down, turned of the cradle rocker, but I have 2 chicks that decided to come early. Being half deaf I haven't heard any peeping, I just happend to look over at the incubator and saw the two hatched chicks. Right now they are in the...
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    Confirm breed

    I have no question about Scout being a boy, but I need to verify his breed. I noted that his earlobes have turned red, so I now can rule out Brown Leghorn. Is he a Welsummer? I would be quite pleased, I have been wanting to add them to the flock. Thanks
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    How do Brahma chickens handle hot weather

    I have lusted for a couple/three dark Brahma hens for awhile now, actually since I saw my first picture. I live in N TX, summer temps consistently over a hundred June until Labor day. It is a dry windy heat. Last summer was my first year, and I lost 2 birds to heat exhaustion, a black EE and...
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    Never ending surprises

    After a preview of summer the chickens had a lovely day foraging for hours outside their yards. Each coop gets a few hours out each day, but today was so nice it was close to 6. Anyway this evening DH was gathering the yellow coop in and came up short on the beak count, and of course it was...
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    Young roo is walking stiff legged and is in pain

    1) What type of bird , age and weight. Naked Neck Cockerel, 6 months, about 7 lbs 2) What is the behavior, exactly. Oakley is having trouble walking, he walks like I do, stiff legged, from the hip and sits on the ground when he can. (I have a bad back and arthritis in the hips). He lays...
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    Does the Silkie broodiness pass when crossed w/LF

    I have 3 handsome Silkie roos, it appears the females either died in shipping or had unresolved splayed leg and needed culling. Made me heart sick. Now, in the future I see the silkie roos treading the BA pullets (they share a coop) the size difference isn't that much between them and they are...
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    If I paint my chickens nails

    will they love me forever? I want to find a way to mark the birds so I know certain facts or conditions about them by sight. I would stay with the dark colors, black, brown, yellow maybe dull green. I know to avoid red, pink or even orange because of picking, . I would think that painting...
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    Replacing rooster with

    a Speckled Sussex (same as current roo) and a rooster for each of the five breeds I will be breeding. I am not sure how to do this and not have all the birds go crazy. Right now I have Punkit, a year old SS roo that is taking care of the remains of my first flock, which is now 5 girls and the...
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    Will silkies use a ramp

    I am building coops for my new birds, and I have 4 black silkies. So far my coops are elevated, with the entrance inside a closed run for extra protection. So far this has worked for LF well, only one loss to predators while foraging this year. I have read that silkies don't like ramps and...
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    How common is splayed leg(s)

    in Silkie chicks? Of the five chicks I ordered, two have bad legs, one barely survived shipping, and it took less than 48 hrs to arrive at the PO. It didn't grow at all in the 1st 24 hrs, noticebly smaller than it hatchmates and died while I was holding it. I suspect it couldn't get to the food...
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    Is 3 days too old to see if a broody will accept chicks?

    Posted earlier that I found one of my EEs on 9 eggs, but I question her broodiness as their was no squawking or pecking when I took the eggs today, from a nest under the roosts, not the nest boxes. I am thinking that if she is still hoarding eggs when my chick order comes in Wed/Thurs I might...
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    Found in plain sight

    Been thinking my 5 girls were just molting, been getting a occasional egg or two for the last week or so, and the girls do look rather shabby, but today, when I gave them their afternoon treat, one of the Sandies was missing, and heaven forbid if she should miss out on her bread and yogurt...
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    How much do your chickens eat based on breed

    I will be getting my new birds Wed, and now I am wondering if I will be getting feed efficient birds, or "pigs in feather boas". Of my current birds, the only girl that has a noticeably hearty appetite is the Marans, she is very matronly looking at just a year. I read that breed does have a...
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    Organic feed

    What brand do you use and what does it cost per hundred pounds? I have had very little luck finding organic feed. I would like to have my feed to be GMO free, and basically only organic is the only way to accomplish that. Thanks
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    Humorous insite

    ...into future merging of my chickens. My NN babies (6) are 4 weeks old, and from day one had a very distinct personality far different from the first batch of chicks I had last year. They are mellow, easy going and only panic when the Big Black Net enters their run to catch them. Last years...
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