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    Chicken Fight

    My girls got in a fight, and it looks like the salmon faverolles won. Is there anything I can do for them? It has been two days since the fight, and the Dominique just is not looking so hot. When I first noticed the fight happened I tried use warm water to gently compress the battle wounds, but...
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    So I was cleaning the chicken run when...

    So this is the story of how I got a major spook doing some spring cleaning in the rabbit/chicken compound. I had already spent hours cleaning the pen, shoveling out winter straw from the covered portion of the run before I finally made it to the rabbit hutches. I peeled back the galvanized...
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    BLRW x ________ ... Which would you choose?!

    Hey Chicken Genetics Experts! I have a beautiful BLRW rooster and an incubator that is rearing to go. He currently lives with 16 hens, and I fear that fertility is low because he is picking favorites. I am going to separate out Mr. Roo and was wondering what I can expect from the following...
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    First Time Hatcher!

    So I don't know if it's the quarantine getting to our heads, but we've decided to try hatching out our own eggs. That's right. Moose the Rooster (BLR Wyandotte) is going to be a father... problem is, he's got 16 girlfriends. SO i'm expecting low fertility %, unless Moose the Rooster is reallllly...
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    Chicken Math Strikes Again

    Somehow convinced the family that the flock should continue to grow this year, due to a handful of hens turning 9+ years old. So in December (the earliest we've ever placed an order for chicks) I headed to Meyer Hatchery's website and browsed. I am a fan of hardy, unique hens of all shapes and...
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    Broody Hen Confused

    Hey everyone! You guys have always been there to help, so I'm calling on you for some advice. For weeks we had a salmon faverolles sitting on a clutch of ceramic eggs. Late Monday night, we slipped in 4 less than a week old chicks under her. Everything seemed to be fine. She was not agitated...
  7. BarredCometLaced

    Star gazing chicken! Need Advice!

    One of our speckled sussex chickens recently started avoiding the roost at night, and would sit on the ground and star gaze; her head touched her back! She was acting perfectly normal during the day time, eating drinking, pecking around, etc... but now she is doing it progressively more often...
  8. BarredCometLaced

    Free ranging my Drakes?

    This spring we acquired two ducks, hoping that at least one of them would end up being a female. As luck would have it, both ended up being drakes. The are currently living with our chickens, but they are not very nice to them. They are territorial and chase them around the compound. We were...
  9. BarredCometLaced

    New Vinyl Chicken Coop Construction (Long Read)

    The Situation: SO, as some people know, earlier this year, my family decided that it was a good idea to move the chickens to a new location for many reasons. One was to relieve parasite pressure on the area (if there was any), to mix things up, and to open up our back yard for aesthetic...
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    Chicken Aggression in Newly Combined Flock

    We have a flock of three older chickens and now and added 7 new chicks. The chicks are now about 10 weeks old, so we opened the separation between the two runs. The Oldest, a 4 year old Barred Rock named Juliette, was (and is still now) the undisputed matriarch, and displays no signs of...
  11. BarredCometLaced

    EMERGENCY: Help my Eve!

    Eve got stuck on the "Big Girl" Side of the run! They pecked the skin off the top of her head :( What can I do to help her!!!
  12. BarredCometLaced

    Nest Box Abandonment

    For three years, my three hens have reliably laid their eggs in one of our two nest boxes. They never touched the second box, always choosing nest box A. Well, a few days ago, one of our chickens decided that she wanted to sleep in the nest box. As a result, after three years of reliable laying...
  13. BarredCometLaced

    A quick meat bird question...

    From your experience, do Dominiques or Barred Rocks make a better meat bird?
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    Pine Shaving Addiction

    We have two three week old ducks, and one of them is fixated on eating the pine shavings. Not just snuffling... eating. He seems less interested in the starter food than he is in eating his bedding. I want to make sure he is eating a balanced diet. What should I do?
  15. BarredCometLaced

    New Flock Additions 2015

    We started off our chicken experience with three chickens in 2011, got three more in 2012, three were eaten by a raccoon family early this winter, and now we are getting SEVEN MORE in May! That will bring us to a flock of 1 four year old Barred Plymouth Rock, 2 three year old SLWs, and now: 1...
  16. BarredCometLaced

    Oh no... *hits head*

    So I was out cleaning my coop today, and I have gotten into the habit of throwing the old bedding into the run for the chickens to scratch at. WELL. I guess that one of the chickens must have buried an egg in the bedding that ended up being thrown into the run. The egg had a crack in it, I did...
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    Fast Spreading Tomato Disease- Please help identify!

    Most of my tomato plants that I planted this year are developing these small dark brown spots that eventually kills the leaves. This is the first year that we have actually been able to grow successful plants and if they all die because of disease it would be really unfortunate. If you can help...
  18. BarredCometLaced

    Good or bad idea?

    I was going through HomeDepot looking at potential coops, and I found these. http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1v/R-202718926/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&keyword=shelterlogic&storeId=10051#.US948KWbPtA What do you think? Good or bad idea for a coop in NH. Share your...
  19. BarredCometLaced

    Rotational Grazing w/ Chickens, Goats, Horses, Sheep

    I want to have a rotational grazing plan where sheep follow chickens and goats, who are followed by horses. This would mean that I would need to have a fence that would be suitable for sheep, goats, and horses. I am trying to stay away from electric... but for predator protection I was thinking...
  20. BarredCometLaced

    Just thinking... but...

    How much money would go into building the frame and exterior of a 36*36 no loft barn? Just thinking...
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