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  1. Peggyjom

    How often does everybody change their litter in their coops?

    I line my tuff shed 12x10 coop goat house with a cheap tarp and use straw in the goat area and shavings under the chickens. I also use the herb mixtures you find on line for mites and bugs I put it in each box just a little like a 1/3 cup for 4 nesting boxes. It is thyme and Rosemary smell...
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    Lonely rooster and baby chicks

    I have a lone chick that one of the girls hatched she wasn’t much of a mom and one of the chicks went missing the rooster likes to sleep on the hay bale outside. I don’t like that and I make him go in at 8:00pm I just put the rooster in and as I picked him up out popped the lone baby chick he...
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    Ended 12th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-Along—Guess How Many Eggs Will Hatch!

    3116 eggs will hatch
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    Best breeds for broody hens?

    I have blue lace Wyandotte that sit, a buff and a little faverolle that is a fierce momma hen she has to help hatch he is not big enough to cover the nest but she picks some one to co parent with! Got to be careful though before you know it you don’t have eating eggs and every one is sitting...
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    Small dog attacked my 3 yo submissive hen

    Many may disagree but I would put her In A quiet spot guit peeking at her she is stressed out. Go to the store and get saline solution or contact lens cleaner get two bottles and a small jar of Vaseline. Drench her wound a few times a day and after the second day put a little Vaseline e o. It to...
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    Feeding chickens only sprouts

    Just make sure you are commuted to what the girls need! Go get a bag of layer feed and treat them now and again! Put your energy into growing them worms or a garden to dig in!
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    Comment by 'Peggyjom' in article 'Using Eggshells as a Calcium Source'

    I just like to prepare them on Saturday morning for the girls if we make angel food cake that 13 to 14 she’ll at once they don’t need that much at once. I have plenty of freezer space in the deep freeze. The egg shells sit by the tequila!😂
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    How Do You Go on Vacation?

    I only feed in the morning so the girls eat it all up I have a chicken guard door opener and an arlo camera that shows the door. Whe we leave on a two three day excursion I have two tube feeders I made from pvc I zip tie them to the fence and fill them I don’t feed in them all the time so I...
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    eating fertilized eggs

    Do any of you wipe the eggs when you bring them in we live in Washington we can get 2 inches of rain a day and muddy feathered feet. I get a lightly damp towel and wipe of the feather trails. Most often the eggs are clean but you don’t want that absorbed through the shell the really dirty eggs I...
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    Comment by 'Peggyjom' in article 'Using Eggshells as a Calcium Source'

    I keep a baggie in the freezer to fill with used shells and the back every few weeks.
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    Official BYC Poll: Do You Clip Your Chickens' Wings?

    I have had the worst trouble with coyote pups during the day. in the warm summer months they do hunt at night more often.Hawks can be a problem too.
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    Official BYC Poll: Do You Clip Your Chickens' Wings?

    Trim the turkeys but not the layers. I would suggest leaving the first three longer feathers then trimming the next three the can not get height but they can roost and get down safely with out injuring themselves
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    Please Help! Raccoon Problem!!! Click Here!!!!!!!!

    Must drop at least 10 miles away!maybe leave them with a mound of cat food and near water so they just stay away! Or try the night predator solar lights on Amazon hang at their eye height they flash red like predator eyes. I have had them for years apparently work only an opossum will pass...
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    Neighbor's dog came back for our ducks today! What to do?

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    Neighbor's dog came back for our ducks today! What to do?

    That’s the one I am talking about. I have seen nice dogs be a chicken killer. My first chicken killer! Is pictured here! I would no more hit or threaten him than kill my bird he is a good dog we mad a mistake and did not introduce him correctly. He killed twice when we figured out to stop the...
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    Neighbor's dog came back for our ducks today! What to do?

    It sounds like the dog may have threatened by the shovel probably should have let it out. As hard as it is to have an invasion of this style it may have been best to let the dog go. If the duck dies tell the neighbor to tie it to the dogs neck. Some folks say crating a dog in the coupe or yard...
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    Neighbor's dog came back for our ducks today! What to do?

    I have had this happen the neighbors dog wiped out all but one of my daughter 4 h project. She is now 31 we live I. The same house with the same neighbor! Think about what your action are you take! Was I mad your damn right I was. But I also want to continue to live in my peaceful neighborhood...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Think of the grandkids they need to enjoy life
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    Ended Official 2020 BYC Halloween HAL - Egg Count, Round 2

    556
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    Ended Official 2020 BYC Halloween HAL - Trick or Treat and Count These Things that are Good to Eat - How Many Green M & M's?

    75
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