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I'm also having a huge problem with black gnats and wonder if it can cause birds to pull their back feathers out?

The hawks don't care. They are hungry and will do anything. I see them daily now. What I did was the tall fenced area outside of their coops I used deer netting and covered it. Now this is a very huge area but I felt it was necessary. And this has worked. But when they go outside of this area to...

I just thought between 6 roosters there may be some protection. The only rooster who didn't seem afraid was the clubbed foot silkie rooster named peaches. My huge EE could've easily taken him but he is young. You guys and gals think my boys will get better at this when they are older?

They are just too funny. I love the cackling the girls make when they're up to no good lol

The best luck I have had with roosters is if I leave them alone. I have 6 roosters and the only one who tries to peck me is the one who I nursed and helped up the roost and held all the time. Here I saved his life and he pecks me. ll my other Roos I never handled and they run from me. If I do...

2 boys and 2 girls and when I let them out to run the fenced 2 areas with the chickens, the firt thing I hear is squawks from the or chickens. My fawn and white runners, who I just adore because they are hilarious, are bullies! They try to grab the chickens tails or their tophats and try to...

I'm going to attempt to cover part of their area. The kennels that are attached to the 2 coops are 30 feet by 100 feet. These all have doors that I leave open to a fenced 2 acres. I'm going to attempt to cover the 30x100 area with cheap netting. He is only a problem in these smaller areas it...

I too take in all the misfits. I have a half blind mentally not well turkey that was given to me as a baby. No he thought she would make it and she is now 5 months old and chirps loudly when I come out to the yard. She also falls asleep in my lap. I say give her plenty of electrolytes and...

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I have several charity cases at my house too. I have a girl who got so dehydrated she almost died. Literally she couldn't walk. I brought her in and fed her and gave her electrolytes and Then I made her her own area outside to relax and eat and drink and brought her in the coop every night and...

Well it's been all this time and that hawk never got one of my chickens until today:(. I have been letting the tiny bantams run the yard with everyone for a while and the hawk must have been just hanging out waiting. I come home from work and find the hawk is stuck under the coop (where he flew...

Well I spoke too soon. Tonight I was outside about 7 p.m. And I heard a ruckus and there he was swooping around and landed on the 8 foot kennel fence! He didn't even care about me being there. I finally shooed him off and none of my birds have disappeared but he just decided to go to the as...

Great idea I will do that too!!

Also I don't know if this is just something that happened to me but I handled my silkie rooster darn near every day because he had club feet and needed a little help and he was my favorite.....welll I thought it was a girl but NOPE turned out to be a roo. Well no biggie I thought until he...

Absolutely beautiful! I have light brahmas and buff brahmas but have never seen dark brahmas. He is so pretty. Why not try to keep them both and just see how things play out. I have several roosters and things seem to go smooth. If my silkie rooster decides he is mr tuff guy and takes on my EE...

They are confined and not being fed! To me this seems abusive. I just hate situations like this. But I will tell you down the road there is a beautiful bloodhound and he lives in a dog kennel that isn't much bigger than he is. I'm sure they feed him but he doesn't get out to run or play and sits...

I would like to report(knock on wood) we have had good success with the CDs on a line and a few scarecrows. Also I decided to let all my chickens run the 2 acres together instead of keeping the bantams seperate from the full size birds. And things have went smashingly! The younger tophats a only...

Two weeks with no eggs aaacckkkk

There is information on here about ivermectin but some say yes and some say use something different its so hard to know what to so. My mind is on overload