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most of the chunks have been at the lower back. sorry i don't have any pics right now. the chickens have been various ages. some 2 years, some 1 and the last two are our new birds from 1st week of june. we do have raccoons in the valley, though we have never seen them in our area. also...

thank. sorry about your chicks. we don't have rats here…lots of mice, but no rats. might be a skunk, if they can climb fences.

i am dealing with massive massacre at our home. came home to 2 dogs who had bowled through the electric fence (which wasn't hooked up). they got 6 birds. i left for work the next day and only let them out in the run that has a 7 foot wooden fence that it dug in a foot into the ground. it does...

interesting. i am dealing with massive massacre at our home. came home to 2 dogs who had bowled through the electric fence (which wasn't hooked up). they got 6 birds. i left for work the next day and only let them out in the run that has a 7 foot wooden fence that it dug in a foot into the...

will take a look at one of them and see if they appear to have lice or mites yuck. hopefully it is just birds dying. sometimes it just happens. thanks for the feedback.

we had 1 of our new layers, 3 mo old appear listless 3 days ago. i separated her from the others, but by evening she was dead. thought nothing of it, as chickens die all the time. then this morning i found another hen, 2 years old dead in the coop. i do not remember any symptoms for her. we have...

thanks for all the feedback. the plan is to sprout the wheat as a supplement to their organic feed. i love my chickens, but have too many jobs and am not that mathematically inclined to figure out the ratios for all the ingredients...that and it seems it would cost just as much if not more to...

A friend recently recommended sprouting wheat to feed to the chickens. We can get local and organic wheat here cheaply. Everything I read online though about making your own feed has ingredient lists a mile long. Can we just feed our layers the sprouted wheat along with the usual oyster shell or...