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  1. yellowflower

    Rates and Mice = Weasels / Skunks / Snakes?

    I also agree, that rats in peticular attrack other predators. I've had chickens for 10 yrs and used welded wire and chicken wire for there run which was always covered. I have a camper as their coop. I had a lot of dogs when I first got them. Shepherds... some penned and some loose. And I had an...
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    Chicken Breed Focus - d'Anvers Bantams

    Where can you find these colors? I can't even find any breeders. Would love some eggs to hatch. :)
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    Mama Heating Pad in the Brooder (Picture Heavy) - UPDATE

    Thank you for the advice and the links Blooie! Much appreciated :)
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    Mama Heating Pad in the Brooder (Picture Heavy) - UPDATE

    Thanks, I might buy both sizes and see what works. Is there a link to the right one? I see an express heat in large. Is that the right one? It looks like it has a fuzzy cover and I worry about them pecking at it.
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    Mama Heating Pad in the Brooder (Picture Heavy) - UPDATE

    Hello! I've been reading through this LONG thread lol and I just love this idea. I used to hatch silkies but haven't for several yrs. I didn't think it was normal for them under the heat lamp so I started letting the broodies do the job. I just can't hatch as many. I'm planning on new chicks...
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    Trio of Self Blue Ameracauna bantams

    Self Blue Ameracauna trio. 2 hens and 1 roo. 2 yrs old. They carry the wheaten coloring also. They are bantams so I would prefer someone with only bantams or docile standard chickens. Pick up only. I live in Bradford NH. Email would be preferred for contact. [email protected]. Thanks!
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    Young hens dying. What is this? Eggbound?

    My hen is still alive and has recuperated very well. Every day she looks and acts better and she is just about 100% My daughter came over the other day and she pointed out that the other hen has a poopy butt, could be diareah so maybe it is cocidia. I never thought of that but I will be treating...
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    Young hens dying. What is this? Eggbound?

    I'll try that medic lynny, my chickens do not like it and never eat it when I buy it. So that sounds like a way to get it into them. I will try it with her. Right now she is getting human calcium a couple times a day on what ever treat I have. Just a little so she doesn't eat too much , been...
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    Young hens dying. What is this? Eggbound?

    Thank you Eggcessive. She's still here. Eating and drinking good, just still doing the wattle walk and wings down. The breathing is off and on. I don't feel comfortable doing the draining and it it's not a cure I'd rather let her go. But she seems pretty good. Thinking back I don't think her...
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    Young hens dying. What is this? Eggbound?

    She's still alive and I saw her poop this morning. She is still feisty and ate some bread with calcium on it. All I have is the human supplement. Still wallking penguin style and her breathing is labored sometimes. So I don't know if I should hope or not. But she is pooping so that has to be...
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    Young hens dying. What is this? Eggbound?

    I don't know if she's egg bound. I don't feel any egg. She's not pooping and got her wings hanging and doing the pengiun walk. She's eating not sure on the drinking. At this point I don't know what else I can do. If she has what the other one has she will be gone in 24 hrs. Maybe sooner. Thank...
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    Young hens dying. What is this? Eggbound?

    Anyone? I put honey on her felt again for an egg don't feel anything. But her underside feels firm and looks swollen. Very tiny bit of poop again, but nothing to get excited about that's for sure. Why would a bird not poop? Feeling very sad and helpless at this point. Is there anything else I...
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    Young hens dying. What is this? Eggbound?

    I have or had 3 bantam ameracaunas with a roo, two of the hens were not laying good for a while but they were molting so I didn't think to much of it. Then the last couple of days one of them I noticed was walking the penguin walk and open mouthed breathing. So I gave her a warm soak and checked...
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    Rooster being too rough stunned hen

    Thanks! I've never had this experience before. I've rehomed silkie roos because of having too many and never had this happen. He's looking for a new home and I might have one today. He's a very nice guy never attacks, laid back and follows me around. He was penned away from the girls over night...
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    Rooster being too rough stunned hen

    This is my story. I had a silkie roo with mostly silkies and hatched a bantam brahma roo and hen and decided to keep them. So I rehomed the silkie roo because he was constantly chasing the brahma roo and now after 1 day of being gone me brahma roo is being rather aggressive with the ladies. One...
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    Freezing temps - should I keep chickens in coop?

    I'm in NH too and my bantams survived last winter which was brutal. I have a covered run with plastic around it to keep out the wind and snow. It warms up pretty good in there on a sunny day. I don't have a way to put heat out there so have never considered it. And they've done well. I have some...
  17. yellowflower

    Bantam Buff Brahmas 7Weeks

    I have 2 Bantam Buff Brahmas at about 7 weeks old for free to good home. Do not know their sex, very hard to tell with this breed. Come from good breeding. Picture is another pair I raised. They look the same. Pickup only. I'm in Bradford NH 603-938-5107
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    Chick Can't Walk

    Sounds like a scooter. I have them with my silkies sometimes. What I do is put them in a cup so they have to put their feet underneath them and it's low enough where they have to push with their feet and legs to get out and they want to. We do this a few times then give them a rest and do it...
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    Best laying Bantams?

    My silkies lay the biggest egg out of D'Uccles, Cochins and Ameracaunas. But they are broody any time of the yr so I don't get a lot. The Ameracaunas lay the best, almost an egg a day but they are the smallest eggs so far. They are young though and just started laying. My cochins don't lay much...
  20. yellowflower

    Help! My Silkie Rooster is attacking me!

    Ibejaran, I do the same thing with my new silkie roo. He starts dancing around me and I just pick him up and pet him and talk to him and when I set him down he is okay. He is young, 6 months or so. He is fine when I pick him up, calm and doesn't struggle. But he was handled a lot from the...
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