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We left her be, I went out to check on her and she was moving around, scratching, acting like a normal hen. Going to put out more grit, more oyster shells, keep an eye on her tomorrow and as you said, see how she does then. She is a nervous hen, we had some problems with two raccoons, who are no...

Looks hot to me, can you put a fan in there, even if it is a battery operated one, to help cool them down?

Not quite sure how to term this or what to call it. For the past few weeks my Ameraucana hen, Hawk Eye, has been laying funny shaped eggs. They are also a bit larger than anything she has laid before, the tip is like a slightly twisted ice cream cone to it too, almost like someone pinched it...

In the USA, many people do not see chickens as "pets", as we do dogs, cats, horses, etc. Many people have chickens for eggs and meat or to sell what they gather from them. Chickens are livestock, something that many also do not see as cuddly, cute animals. The cats are doing what they are...

Do you have a local college or university in your country? If so, see if they have a bug and insect section, entomology dept. then call and ask them if you sent a body of one of those spiders to them, would they be willing to look at it for you. That may be a place to start. Have you talked to...

Call your Dept. of Fish and Game and Wildlife office. I have a neighbor who was feeding vultures! Because she was putting out meat or rotten meat, depended on her mood, it also brought all sorts of fun things to our farm. When I called the above, they did go out and she did get a verbal warning...

Lead therapy....only has to be done once...or you can double tap just to be sure it is dead.....

Wow...20?! That is a lot of coon in your area! Thanks for the compliment on the gun, I have one like that but minus the tripod and light on it, just a scope.

I too have a farm that backs up to the woods and I am always mindful what comes through...at night we have "Thumper", a little cotton tail who comes each evening at dusk to enjoy the green clover in my front yard. We have black bears, foxes, raccoons, skunks, squirrels, possums, deer, etc. I...

Never thought I would have a problem with the wildlife around me...we enforced the fence, I keep around the bottom of the fence lean, and each day I walk around it then at night close up everyone. Few weeks back, prior to the heat getting bad, we ripped off the old chicken wire and started a new...

Kicking an animal, I don't care what it is, is abuse! Your rooster isn't "being mean" he is protecting his flock and something about you may make him assume you may hurt his hens, so he is protecting them the only way he knows how. If they perceive you as a potential threat, they will also go...

We have no means of AC for our chickens so I have taken all the necessary precautions I can possibly do to make them as comfortable as possible. Today I went and found a small mister, which is nothing more than a fancy sprinkler that sprays a light water, it is going in their big yard, the dirt...

Thanks but I already read it...guess were doing all we can...now pray and hope I don't loose any

ACV isn't that expensive to buy at a natural foods store...here in VA where I am it is only about $6 to $8 and lasts me a month or so. As for the heat...I looked at our 10 day weather forecast for Culpeper, VA and Saturday it is suppose to get up to 105!!! I got teary eyed and had to walk...

I too am very very worried about my chickens! I have the frozen water bottles I rotate every few hours, ice in their elecrolyte water, a fan going in the main yard then two small battery operated fans going in the small yard and coop. Going to run to the store today for more D batteries for the...

I was never one for killing anything...but when my Siberian Husky got bit in the face by a cotton mouth...a good snake is a dead snake. I can identify most of the good snakes here in Virginia, I turn the other way when it is a black snake or our small dirt snakes or the very pretty and soft...

Is that better Old Roo??