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    HELP - new chick with broken foot

    My hen hatched 3 eggs a few days ago and another hen killed one chick and was after another. The chick is ok, except her foot looks to be almost amputated. I tried to splint it but when I put the chick back it with its mother, the mother pulled off the splint. What should I do? Remove the foot...
  2. golfaz

    HELP - new chick with broken foot

    My hen hatched 3 eggs a few days ago and another hen killed one chick and was after another. The chick is ok, except her foot looks to be almost amputated. I tried to splint it but when I put the chick back it with its mother, the mother pulled off the splint. What should I do? Remove the foot...
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    First timer - Raising meat birds - Questions

    I ordered 25 Freedom Rangers that are due June 10th. This gives me time to build a coop for them. I looked at various tractor coops and thought a 10 x 10 x 2 coop would work for 25 birds. My question is how do you keep the birds healthy without having them vaccinated? My current egg layer...
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    Incubating issues - H E L P

    Thank you for the insight. As of now, day 22, 1 chick hatched, and 4 more have piped. It seems like a very very slow process. I guess this is normal? What do you wash your eggs with prior to incubating them?
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    Incubating issues - H E L P

    This is my second try at incubating and the first batch fully developed but never piped. My guess the humidity was too low, under 50% and I kept the lid plugs in the entire time. Today is day 22, second hatch, and still no piping. I maintained a constant 99.5 degrees that entire time, with...
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    Preventing digging under chicken run - tractor coop

    Can you send me the supplier's weblink? Thank you for the information.
  7. golfaz

    Preventing digging under chicken run - tractor coop

    Will I have issues during the day? I also bought those blinking red lights and will put them on all 4 corners of the coop
  8. golfaz

    Preventing digging under chicken run - tractor coop

    Yes, it happened at night. Yes, I have a door into the coop, and I didn't have it closed that night. The uneven ground was very small, so small that my hand didn't fit under it, and there were no dig marks. I assumed it was a weasel or mink.
  9. golfaz

    Preventing digging under chicken run - tractor coop

    I lost my entire flock this week to a weasel. It managed to get under the fence, at a low, uneven ground area. It left a mess and before I build a new flock, I need to come up with a way to prevent this from happening again. The coop is tractor style with an adjacent run. It is fenced-in but...
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    how do you catch a weasel?

    I lost my whole flock this week, just in one night. I believe it was a weasel, and I am about it catch the bastar*! I built a trap!
  11. golfaz

    Roos or Pullets?

    I have 2 olive egger's and I am beginning to think the one in the back is a Roo. I wanted 2 pullets..What do you think?
  12. golfaz

    New Chicken has cough

    I brought home 2 olive eggers last week, apprx 9 weeks old. I added them to my flock of 6, which are about 13 weeks old. For the most part, all is well. The question I have is that one of the new chickens has a cough and I am concern about something spreading to the healthy chickens. This is...
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    Blue cooper or Blue Orph?

    Does anyone know if this is a blue cooper maran or a Blue Orp? She does have feathered legs but I am still not sure. I have 2 of these, and they have different eye and beak color. Any advise?
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