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Yes, I've been busy cleaning up the yard for spring planting. While moving a load of soil from a tarp for a new raised bed, I discovered quite a few night crawlers which I gave to my girls (chickens & a duck). They went into a frenzy chasing each other around. All are doing well and glad for...

This is a good article because it touches on safety, health, keeping chickens warm and the importance of fresh unfrozen water.

My coop is predator proof except for a duck that is in an open pen of her own during the day. The chickens bully her and peck at her eyes even though she is a full grown white pekin. I put her inside a crate at night inside the coop.

Thanks for the great ideas. I'll try them and try to keep you posted.

The trap is the size for a full grown raccoon, but not the trap for a coyote.

The raccoon did set it off because the door was down. I'm thinking it was somehow able to push the door up to still escape.

I have for several weeks now tried to catch a raccoon that has been wandering my back yard. My chickens and duck are inside a closed coop at night, but raccoons are known to tear through chicken wire and open doors. I saw it cross my driveway and make prints on my trash cans along with...

The vet told me they are born with it and have to get vaccinated then and can not get the vaccine when they are older.

Thanks for the information. I did order and receive three chicks, received at the post office, which I paid extra for the Marek's vaccine. It was three extra dollars for each chick. It is well worth it to me and I bet it would be to others to get vaccinated chicks and pay extra to not have to...

Yes, they are unvaccinated.

They told me they get their chicks unvaccinated.

I bought 5 chickens at Rural King. They were very healthy for the first two years. Then one of them stopped eating for about two days. Then started eating again. I didn't think anything of it at first until another week went by and the chicken stopped eating and couldn't walk. I didn't even...

Yes. My three week old chicks love them. I only give them a few though.

I am disheartened because I have had an experience similar to this. I had a chicken a little over two years old who lost her appetite, would only eat her favorites and wander around picking at the ground. After two days of this she stumbled out of the coup and fell over. She couldn't get up...

We were predicted very cold temperatures where I live and I layered vaceline on my chickens' legs and feet and their combs and waddles to help protect them from frostbite. I also have a chicken who started molting during the cold weather. So I put her in a cage with straw food and water with a...

I'm sorry to have to say this, but anyone who can't provide a coop that is a good shelter and protection for their chickens and properly care for them shouldn't have them. If you can make that little rooster happy enough with good care, maybe he will have a fair quality of life. I hear about...

I love to spoil my chickens. They have a plastic ball with scratch grain in it, tied to a string that they bat with their beaks. My chickens and duck get cabbage, spinach, blueberries, strawberries when I don't have any from my garden, even when the prices are a little high. They get herbs...

I kept the chick and duck separated from the hens at least 4 weeks. They are now separated so they don't get hurt. I didn't try to get a chicken to peck another chicken. I had the duck put her beak at the adult hen a couple of times to try to get the hen to think the duck would go after her...

The duck will not defend herself. The four other hens gang up on her when I put them together and one will push her head to one side and peck her eye lid. I was hoping that the chickens would be more scared of her if I made it like she was attacking them. I never hurt them. It didn't work...