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    Hawk detergent

    Big Plastic Owls. I lost a dozen young chickens this year to hawks and vultures before I placed 3 plastic owls along the run. There are 7 vultures in the 1st pic and there have been no more since the 2nd pic.
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    Culling chicks - how do you do it?

    paper bag over an exhaust pipe, older vehicle works best. Or craigslist, or stop making chicks.
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    Deformed chicks I need to cull.

    paper bag over an exhaust pipe. If you have a non catalyst motor, it works instantly.
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    Show me your mixes!

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    Keeping my Rooster from Crowing

    I think noises will set them off, playing this gets an immediate response from my Roos, Jimi Hendrix sets them off but not as well. Before I brought them in at night, something got them crowing, and I'm sure it was some noise-not from me, but sound triggers them.
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    Keeping my Rooster from Crowing

    Wham-o air blaster? https://www.elsewherecomics.com/buylist/toys-guns/whamo_airblaster__1960s/227503
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    Oopsies!

    Did you get an answer? I have the same problem
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    Official BYC Poll: How Do You Keep Rodents Away From Your Coop?

    I use live traps outdoors, we have rats, mice and many more skunks, opossum and raccoon. Only live traps now, since a young hen flew out of the run and sampled the peanut butter in a rat spring trap. The fires every year have driven a lot of creatures out the more rural areas.
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    Keeping my Rooster from Crowing

    We're in the City limits, so our boy has a "no crow" collar which makes him sound like he's got emphysema, and since the 1st time he crowed at 3am, he's spent every night in a dog kennel in the laundry room.
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    hatching eggs and ambient temp

    That pic of the thermometer is in the shade on the North side of my house.
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    hatching eggs and ambient temp

    Redding CA, they under report the temp, who would want to be here?
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    hatching eggs and ambient temp

    If anyone was following, sorry for the delay. Final tally on day 23 out of 18 eggs, 9 failed to develop, 2 fully developed but didn't absorb their yolks and died in the shell, and 7 healthy chicks are doing fine.
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    hatching eggs and ambient temp

    lock down Thurs and hope to see those chicks next Sat. Here are pix of daddy and his daughter from last hatch. Cemani dad and americauna mom. I like the cheek puffs.
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    hatching eggs and ambient temp

    out of 18 eggs, 6 were not developing, the hottest one to develop had been 110 degrees, not much above the average chicken temp of 105 to 107. It was 119 in the shade in our backyard yesterday at 3PM and all my birds are enjoying the misting system I put in for them.
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    hatching eggs and ambient temp

    I've been saving eggs for the next batch of hatchlings, but the ambient temperature here has been 110F to 117F and by the time I collect eggs from the coop some have measured (with my frared thermometer) at 117f to 119F. Think they might be viable? Any experience with this? Thank you
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    hatching eggs and ambient temp

    They're in the incubator now, I'll post the results in the next 21 to 24 days.
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    Killed my first hen yesterday by broomstick method (mercy kill) and I need some affirmation

    when I have to I've put the bird in a bag and put it over the exhaust pipe of a running car. Knocks them out pretty quick.
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    non ambulatory hen

    Thank you for the help!
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    non ambulatory hen

    Hello-I know she's lost weight over the last week, but she's huge about 13 lbs-I can feel the keel-no bloody poop I forgot to mention she's gasping-I feed scratch, layer pellets and oyster shell all the birds are in a 70' run with a mulch pile to tear up.didn't know about marek's-over the last 2...
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    non ambulatory hen

    I have a new jersey giant 3 years old been having on and off walking difficulties, but now has been completely unable to stand or walk for a week. I digitally inspected the vent and cannot find egg binding, comb and wattles look pale, she eats and drinks what I place in front of her and flaps...
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