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  1. big mami

    Can I eat a chicken with a coyote bite mark?

    Yesterday a coyote got into our chicken run and killed 10 chickens. Some died of a heart attack and we'll eat those for sure. Others were bitten, but there's only one small tooth puncture or two. And their ribs were broken (from the mouth). We processed those but don't know if we should eat...
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    Help my turkeys keep dieing!

    I got two 6-week-old bronze turkeys from a woman who ordered them through a feed store and raised them. One was killed by a dog, but the other one died from I don't know what - a disease or something. He was healthy one day, and then one afternoon he was standing in the corner of the chicken...
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    Santa Cruz breeders?

    Hey folks, I'm wanting to expand and diversify my flock of dual purpose chickens, but don't want to go the hatchery route. Everyone on craigslist just takes hatchery chicks and raises them and sells them, ditto the feed stores. Anyone in the greater Santa Cruz area breeding their own dual...
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    Hello from Santa Cruz, CA

    I'm guessing you've long since figured this out, but Mountain Feed in Ben Lomond rents out chicken pluckers.
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    Dominique roo + Buff Orpington hens = ?

    I'm trying to breed dual purpose chickens "au naturale" instead of with an incubator and brooder, but my hens aren't cooperating. I have Barred Rock hens (zero broodiness so far) and Dominique hens (just enough broodiness to fake me out, but they don't really do the job). I also have a...
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    Put chicks under broody who has only been sitting 1 week?

    I never tried it after all - none of the eggs in my incubator made it. I now have three determined broodies and DH is going to make them a broody mini-coop so we can let them sit on eggs. Hope we have better success than with the incubator... Best of luck to you!
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    Put chicks under broody who has only been sitting 1 week?

    Hi all, Out of 24 eggs in the incubator I'm only getting two chicks, looks like. Oh well. I happen to have a broody hen but she has only been sitting for a week. The chicks are due in three days (Mother's Day!) and I'm thinking of trying to put the chicks under my broody after they hatch (and...
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    Lethargic bird

    By the way, broody hens don't lay eggs. When they stop bring broody, they go back to laying. So it might still be that she is broody. Just a guess...
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    Lethargic bird

    She sounds like she is going broody, and has picked an odd place to decide to nest. You could move her on to a nest in the coop, on a couple of eggs (or not), and see if she stays. If she stays and squaks when you try to remove the eggs from under her, she has gone broody. Congrats! You can...
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    Please help - Marek's?????

    Now two of my 16 hens have died. They had similar symptoms: inability to walk (weak?), pasty butts, almost no pooping, and what poop there was was very green. And super, super nasty smelling. The pasted butts weren't green, that stuff was tan colored. We have not changed their diets, added...
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    Rooster - Poopy Eggs connection?

    After we got our roo and he was fertilizing the girls, I noticed many of our hens' vents were very poopy and they laid a lot of poopy eggs. That had never happened before. I never did anything about it (laziness, I admit). So our poor roo was killed by a bobcat last week and suddenly there...
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    The Right to Grow and Raise Your Own Food

    Well said, Wingless! And may I add that while I was living in the closely-packed suburban-type area of a big city I successfully had three hens in a very small back yard with NO smell at all. We cleaned their run and coop regularly (it made wonderful compost for our little garden!) and even...
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    Help! My rooster is attacking me!

    Thanks for all the info. After trying a little with treats and holding, he's still problematic so he is headed for the crock pot sometime this week. And it might have just been his true nature coming out, since he's now 6 months old. Ah well, wish me better luck next time.
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    Help! My rooster is attacking me!

    Well, he was fine before the weekend.
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    Help! My rooster is attacking me!

    Here's the story: I found out after the fact that my animal-sitter couldn't come close up the coop after dusk on Saturday, so she went early and "shooed" them in. But my roo thought she was attacking the girls, so he tried to attack her. The next morning, he did it again as soon as she let...
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    19 and a half weeks old and still no eggs :( egg countdown anyone??

    Got our first egg today! We have 11 Barred Rocks (plus one BR roo) and they're all 19 weeks old. Just one egg from 11 girls, but it's a start!
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    Help - pullet can no longer walk at all

    So far so good - none of the others have any symptoms! We might be out of the woods now that it's been a week - yes?
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    I hate Long beach ca

    Here's a great article in the Long Beach Press Telegram about the proposed changes: http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_20886089/residents-want-long-beach-allow-livestock I used to live in Long Beach and am rooting for all of you in LB!
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    Help - pullet can no longer walk at all

    We culled her and then cleaned the coop like crazy. So far, no others have symptoms. Wish us luck!
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    Should we eat a chicken that had Marek's?

    Don't know if this should be under Meat Birds or Diseases, but we lost one dual-purpose to (most likely) Marek's Disease, and were wondering if others show symptoms should we just cull and bury them or could we eat the meat? I know humans can't catch Marek's but it seems wrong to eat a sick...
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