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    Goose Keeping?

    I just picked up one at the local poultry sale. I am treating her for a scraped head with neosporin. She hisses at every animal that comes near her. I think It is cute. My little dog got too close and she put her beak completely over his nose. The dog does not go near her now. I am...
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    Questions before I order

    I dont eat my own birds, and it seams like 90% of everything I hatched last year turned out to be a rooster. They will get a pecking order going, and mine for the most part pick a separate part of the yard or woods and stick to it during the day. They sleep in one of 2 coops at night with the...
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    Raccoons? I have a situation!!

    Thankfully this one did not. My boyfriend scraped his hand on the livetrap, which is ok if it is dry per the state vet. Rabies can live if it stays moist, also per the state vet. The coon chewed on the wire and it was not dry.... There is a lot of stress involved waiting to see if it or...
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    What are best hawk deterrents? Have a situation here!

    I have covered most of my yard with 1 inch plastic netting. I once had a red-tail sit on my gate, fly under the netting, grab a chicken, and fly out. I now have netting down to my gate. I have heard that you can make "chicken-tables" for them to hide under when a hawk is seen. Also, my...
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    cats

    I once had a "teenager" kitty kill a young chicken. She still stalks and chases small ones, but no deaths since I made her sleep in the coop with the adults one night.
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    Raccoons? I have a situation!!

    I had something kill 12 chicks last year by moving a large concrete block to open a pen door. I used a dead leftover in a live trap. The next morning the live trap contained the smallest coon on the planet. Park service says no trapping transporting or posessing so shoot it or let it go...
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    Dogs?

    We got a Pyranees mix for outside night patrol because they are supposed to love flocks and herds. Our dog is less than a year old and thinks that it is funny to scatter the birds and make them squeek like toys. He is on a leash inside one of my pens during the day. Yesterday, I found guinnea...
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    Would this help to keep the predators out?

    I have also read that you can get a male meat-eater, (dog,) to mark its territory around the yard and that it helps with some predators such as foxes....
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    Heavy rooster with nice tail, colorful markings etc.

    Is a phoenix large enough? or Yokahama? I have had smaller roos still make fertile eggs with laying hens. My chicks that hatched from barred rocks and a black sumatra are large and beautiful. I have 2 friends that tie flies that want the skins if/when something happens to the birds. They...
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