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    Fisher killed my rooster, now what?

    I lost my rooster to a fisher the other night. RIP Dr. Ruckus... He was in a pen set back and away from the chicken coop because the hens were going bald from his attentions and I was giving them a break to feather back in. It found a weakness I hadn't seen in some overlapping wire and...
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    Camping recipes and ideas! Please share!

    We are going camping at Lake Willoughby in a couple weeks for my birthday! Yay! I'm already thinking about breakfast on our gas cooktop. I want mix eggs with pre-cooked sausage and some veggies in ziplocks baggies so I can just pour into a pan and cook without a lot of mess. I have some...
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    Need some flock management guidance!

    I'm dealing with a couple issues right now, and I'd love some advice! I've got 18 hens and 1 rooster. I had two roosters until about 2 months ago, when the hens started balding badly and showing injuries from mating and the 2nd rooster started showing aggression towards me. Now that I've...
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    Leaves in the run?

    I've been researching this on BYC and getting many different answers. I'd love to recycle some of the leaves from our Oak and Birch trees in the yard. I was thinking about putting them in the chicken run, which is all dirt. I'm hoping next spring to add some sand/gravel mix but until then...
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    Terror Birds

    I saw this crazy special last night on Terror Birds, which lived about 2 million years ago. We talk about chickens being related to dinosaurs, which they are, but these guys were much more recent and very scary! They grew to 7 feet tall, weighed up to 300lbs and could run up to 30mph...
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    Need a new pop door design for winter, please help me!

    OK, we've got a shed coop with two pop doors, because we have two parts to our run we can leave open or separate. Here's what both doors currently look like. This design has worked OK for the summer, but has clear design flaws I've found with regular use. The doors are hinged from the...
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    Crock pot advice needed!

    We processed two birds this weekend, 5 months old and they've been resting in the fridge. One is going into the freezer and the other into the crockpot. With fresh birds do you put them into the crockpot with liquid or just as is with some spices or marinade? I saw a recipe that called for...
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    First processing, I survived!

    I did my first processing of 2 birds today. My dad came over to help and we kind of learned as we went! I've been researching for while and watching videos, so I knew generally what to do- he's a hunter but has never done chickens before. It was not as bad as I thought it would be and will...
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    What breed are these two cockerels?

    I'm hopefully picking up these two cockerels tonight. They are 4-6 months old. What breed are they?
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    At what temperature do you start closing the windows of your coop?

    We are likely to get our first frost this weekend and that leads me to start thinking about winterizing my coop. At what temperature point do you start closing windows on your coops? I have 5 windows at roost height and soffit vents in my 10' x 10' shed with the soffits at 8 feet where the...
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    Rose hips for chickens?

    While looking for rose hip recipes and drying methods for making syrup, jelly and tea I found this link about drying them for supplements for chickens. http://www.ehow.com/how_8164552_dry-rose-hips-chickens.html I have a lot of roses, and on several bushes the hips are small enough I probably...
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    Molting or feather pulling? Updated with pics!

    I noticed this morning that one of my hens, a Partridge Rock, is missing feathers on her head, right behind her comb on either side. The two balding spots are even (almost look like thinning patches), but the skin underneath doesn't look red or irritated, maybe a bit scaly, I'll have to catch...
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    Biggest chicken I have ever seen!

    I saw this rooster at the Champlain Valley Fair in Essex Jct, VT this past Saturday. He was MASSIVE! I couldn't get a good shot of a normal sized bird next to him, but he filled the cage. He must have been near 20 lbs, his ankles were an inch thick and his body was HUGE! His legs were pretty...
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    High wind preparedness, leave windows open or close them up?

    I am curious as we are preparing for the storm this weekend what I should do. We are in the high danger area, up in VT, and while I know it's very unlikely we will get full on hurricane conditions, it is still supposed to be very bad this weekend. I have a 10'x10' shed converted to a coop...
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    What are these pullets?

    I just picked these 4 pullets up from a local farmer. All he could tell me was that he gets the birds hatched at the University of Vermont when they do it for a class, once the class is over they bring him the chicks. Usually they are meat birds which he raises to eat. They brought him...
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    Injured hen, suspected raccoon attack- condition update!

    We had a close call last night with what we believe to be a raccoon attack. There's a post on it in the predator/pest section if you want to read it. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=559148 One of my hens was injured it what appears to be a "reach through the wire and...
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    We had our first attack last night, I think a raccoon...

    The title says it! We are lucky, we have one injured hen and another hen and a rooster missing some feathers. No fatalities! My husband had just gotten home from work a little after 11:00 and as he was unlocking the door he could hear some noise from the quarantine pen way in the back...
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    2 Cockerels, 1 coop? Can I make this work for the winter?

    I currently have 16 birds; 7 pullets, 7 hens and 2 cockerels. I'm hopefully picking of 4 more pullets this weekend. Right now I have 3 separate pens. The youngest cockerel (14 weeks) is in with my 16 week old pullets and 2 older hens in the large coop. I'm also keeping 5 hens and an 18 week...
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    Free coop & layers in Burlington VT!

    OK, I have to share this post, because I cannot bring home another coop and more chickens.... I cannot.... I must not.... Someone else take this please and free me from temptation! http://burlington.craigslist.org/zip/2549328581.html
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    Dual purpose flocks, eggs and meat?

    We want to harvest some birds for meat next year. What I'm going back and forth on is how to do this. We have a 10'X10' coop and a 12'x19' + 9'x10' run, as well as almost an acre of grazing that can be dedicated just for the chickens. Right now I have 15 chickens; 7 pullets, 7 hens and 1...
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