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    End justifies the means

    After reading many of the very sad posts, please understand that this is not meant to offend, however for me it is totally unacceptable not to do everything possible to protect a pet. For instance I can not imagine what must go through a poor chicken's mind while being eaten alive by a...
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    Please help identify "Mini" (Little Myserty Hen)

    Mini was found abandoned behind a Chinese restaurant, foraging on her own in a nearby town. After several weeks nearby store employees were finally able to catch her. Needless to say she is now fully recovered from her ordeal and her plumage is becoming more brilliant each day. She seems...
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    Looking for a few hens, Western KY area

    Due to old age the wife's flock has now diminished down from the original (9)nine to a total of (3)three, 1 Bantam rooster(Pete), 1 Bantam hen(Honey) and 1 Australorp hen(Susie). Therefore if anyone within a 75 mile radius of Paducah KY has a few too many hens, please let me know. Please no...
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    Laying Hens/Worm Medicine?

    Questions: 1. Do you give your laying hens worm medicine? 2. What type medicine? 3. How often? 4. After treatment, do you eat the eggs? Thanks, Kentucky
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    Firsttimer Suggestion

    Prior to the wife's chicken venture my experience with chickens was back on the farm as a child, the White Leghorn chicks were ordered and arrived; we fed and watered them. Over the course of the year some died, we ate some which included all the roosters and the remaining hens were added to...
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    Thousand Dollar Egg

    Today, 8/27 one of the wife's chickens laid the first egg. Now, if I were to add up the expense of the coup, pen, equipment, electric bill, chicken feed, not counting labor I would estimate that this "first" beautiful pale blue egg has a net cost of roughly $1000. Now, I am fairly confident...
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    Finally, peace or "somewhat".

    Now I know why some folks give up and have more than one chicken pen. When I was a kid on the farm all the chicks were bought at the same time and were the same breed, if later a hen hatched a small brood she was the one who protected them from the rest of the flock. When the wife decided she...
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    So far, so good

    Fortress Report: Well knock on wood or whatever; but thus far (2 weeks and counting) the fortress coup & pen has provided adequate protection for the wife's flock of (6)six chickens. With only 8' separation from heavy undergrowth and a 250 acre wooded area I can only hope that what I built...
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    Predator Exposure

    This is not in reference to a specific posting, but what is wrong with this picture, and/or what am I missing? 1. Why add poultry to a pet group knowing that one or more of the other pets are instinctive predators? 2. Why add poultry to a potentially predatory environment without providing...
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    120Volt Chicken Protection

    For what its worth, a 120Volt perimeter fence is relatively simple to build and will "STOP" all diggers and climbers literally dead in their tracks. Here's a typical how-to: Drive 2' foot sections of 1/2" or 3/4" PVC pipe leaving about 16" above ground spaced approximately 4'. Place the pipe...
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