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  1. tuffy

    Raccoon visiting to steal feed

    For us, only way to rid our yard of Raccoon is to dispatch. We tried for weeks to trap a huge coon and finally got him by using marshmallows as bait in the back of a "have a heart" trap. We had him on trail cam and he couldn't resist the marshmallows. easy, cheap bait!(cat food, tuna, chix...
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    DE and baby chicks

    Help, I recieved 16 baby chicks in the mail 5 days ago. All were fine upon arrival. I put them in the brooder pen with a willing new mother hen and she accepted them right away. Each morning for the last 4 days I have found 1 dead chick on the floor. I did spread some DE on the floor before...
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    mulch in pen?

    Can I put bagged cedar mulch in my chicken pen attached to the coop as something to scratch around in? Not sure if the cedar is ok. My chickens have dug a deep hole in the dirt to dust bathe in and I'd like to fill it with something to they would enjoy rolling around in. Bagged mulch would be...
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    foster chicks?

    Hi, Has anyone ever had sucess with placing storebought newborn chicks under a hen that has been broody for 3 weeks but has little chance if hatching her own eggs? When my hen started she was seperate from the flock and for the first 4 nights she would hop up on the roost and leaves the eggs to...
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    Eggbound??

    I have a hen that is not doing very well. I was away on vaca and when I returned she was in a weakened state. Her symptoms are she has a very distended abdoman and is walking like a penguin, kind of upright. She has clear eyes and is eating, pooing and drinking. She will let me pick her up...
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    Chicken toenails

    Does everyone clip their chickens toenails? If so, How?, as in, do you wait until night when they are roosting and pick them up, one by one?. I have 24 hens and some of them have very long nails. Others are ok. They have plenty of different surfaces to scratch around in, cement, dirt, grass...
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    Scaly leg mites

    I've read many posts on here about leg mites. Once treated do the scales go away? Do they just fall off or would I have to remove them some how? What exactly are the "scales"and how do they form?
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    Big question, why did all of you new chicken owners get chickens?

    Having a bad day? Impossible not to smile while watching a chicken run~ Enjoy
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    sleeping in nest boxes

    Hi all, I had 24 hens and in August hatched 6 chicks. When the new chicks were small they and their Mom were housed away from the main group. I moved all of the chicks and Mom into the main coop around the end of Sept. Ever since all of the babies want to sleep at night in the nest boxes...
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    Butchering Dilemma

    Can someone direct me to a site on "how to butcher" for a first timer? My husband will do it, he is an experienced deer hunter and we would like to thin our flock before winter. thanks
  11. tuffy

    Lynx or Bobcat?

    SSS~shoot, shovel, shut-up
  12. tuffy

    Caught a coon

    had a similar problen a few weeks ago. Mom and baby coons getting into the hatchling coop without any sign of how. Set Haveaheart traps with marshmallows. First night caught a baby, second night caught another baby. we "baited the trap with the drowned baby(sorry if I offend) and caught the...
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    hen picking grass and putting on her back

    I have never seen this question on here~ does anyone know why my hen picks grass, leaves and twigs and turns her head to put the litter on her back? I have 2 hens that do this. They usually do it when they are first let out to free range. ??
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    Salmonella, could this happen to my hens?

    Yikes, with all the recent news about salmonella I am concerned, could this be infecting my birds? The news this morning states that the hens are probably infected, showing no signs of illness and still passing on thru the eggs. Could this happen to us BYC people? My coop is clean, chickens...
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    Possum Bait??

    Quick and easy, what is a good possum bait for a hav a heart trap? Thanks
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    OEGB mama adopted all of them!! pics!!

    Last summer I had a broody hen on 10 eggs. I also ordered by mail 15 chicks. By coincidence they all arrived on the same day(newly hatched and to the post office) I very carefully introduced the mail babies to the new Mom. She eagerly accepted them all! She wonderfully mothered 26 chicks(1...
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    Thick scaley legs

    How can you possibly get every single mite out of the coop? How do you think the large facilities keep these pests at bay?
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    Thick scaley legs

    Does anyone know why only some of my hens have thick scaly legs? I have never seen mites on them or in the coop but I supose they could be there. I have 30 chickens and about 10 of them are affected. The hens are not all the same breed or age that are affected. What gives?? Is it...
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    Which egg collecting container?

    Any one that has been egg collecting for a while will know "never, never put eggs in your pockets" You will always forget and~ooops, lean on the fence to say Hi to the horse, bend over to pet the dog, reach to pick the tomato from the back of the plant, etc, etc, etc. All you can say is "ohh...
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    Raccoon Bait?

    In the last 3 nights we have caught 1 raccoon Mom and 5 kits, in the Tractor supply traps using marshmallows as bait. If we used tuna etc we would have only caught the neighbors barn cats. I hope we wiped out the whole family as they killed 5 of my chickens before we knew what was out there at...
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