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    Chicken-safe rat poison sought

    Any advice on eradicating rats who sneak into our girls' coop and eat the feed at night? Any effective poisons / traps that won't hurt the hens? My husband was trying to do it old-school and set clamp traps with bait (peanut butter, bacon, etc.) out in the field and near coop at night when...
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    Free range or keep in coop until first egg?

    Our 12 chicks, which we've raised since a day old, are now three months old. My husband and I are raising them on nearly two acres on Maui, which has a good year-round climate and fewer predators in our area. They are in a good-sized coop with a 6x6x10 foot fence attached so they can hang out...
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    looks like chicks got period - 4 wks old - help

    My husband and I have 12 chicks, approx. 4 wks old, 3 of each: barred rock, road isle red, black sexlinks and ameraucana. Today, we woke up and noticed blood atop their bedding. It doesn't look like bloody stools so much as it looks as if a chick or a group of chicks got their periods. The blood...
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