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    A Dog For Me And My Flock

    I have been told by several other chicken keepers that a Great Pyranies is the dog you want for chicken guarding. He said his are excellent with kids, animals, and actively hunt and kill coyotes, yet are very, very loyal.
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    What Did This?

    My husband left our two little banties in the chicken run with their little "house" so they could get some exercise space last night. He felt they would be safe.He used very thick gauge wire and cemented it underground when he built the run and it has a wired top as well, so whatever did this...
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    Dog Attack- Injured Chicken- Update and New Question

    Okay new question: For a couple day there she didn't eat or drink. I noticed that this morning she apparently drank her water so I cooked her some eggs and she ate those as well. She seems to have perked up and isn't freaking out when we come around anymore. I've been doing the antibiotic...
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    Dog Attack- Injured Chicken- Update and New Question

    Thanks!!!
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    Dog Attack- Injured Chicken- Update and New Question

    UPDATE AND NEW QUESTION AT BOTTOM Once again some dogs attacked our chickens. This time, one chicken was killed and taken off, and the other one my husband shot at and he dropped our little Buff Orphington. She has puncture wounds, but wasn't really bleeding. We decided to see if we could...
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    Need Help With Introducing Chicks

    We currently have 16 chickens- 11 Rhode Island Red hens, 1 Rhode Island Red rooster, and 4 Delaware hens. A dog had killed some chickens from our flock so we ordered some replacement chicks- 2 Delaware roo's and then 9 buff orphington hens. We also have 6 black sex link roosters that came with...
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    Rooster Help and Egg Help Needed

    Thank you all for your advice. I will talk to my husband about what to do with the rooster. He's good about protecting the hens, but my instinct says he isn't a good fit for us- if it were just me and my husband, that would be different, but since we have little bitty ones around, I just don't...
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    Rooster Help and Egg Help Needed

    I sort of have two issues I'm hoping someone can help with. The first issue is that my rooster is starting to act sort of aggressive towards me, my husband, and the kids. I can understand him being protective of the hens- he's good about that. Yesterday though, I went into the coop and let all...
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    Need Help with a Baby Chick Please

    I got some chicks in the mail yesterday from the hatchery, and one of my Buff Orphinton chicks can't stand. It's legs aren't going off to the side and she's hopping/scooting around, but she cannot stand. For the most part she's just sitting on her bottom with her legs underneath her body. Also...
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    Getting chicks in early June....

    Due to dogs killing some of our chickens yesterday, we ordered replacements that will arrive in early June. Do you think this will be okay, or are there special considerations I need to take concerning chick care during the summer? It's staying in the low/mid 70's and low 80's right now, and it...
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    Dogs....

    Dogs got seven of our chickens yesterday- two Delaware roosters, three Rhode Island Red hens, and two Delaware hens. We called animal control and they found the dogs who did it, and they must be penned up. The owner did pay us for our losses, but we still are heartbroken. We live in the country...
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    Please help my baby chick

    Quote: She's at peace. I decided to put her down. She was sorta eating and drinking, but mostly just laying around. I'm not sure if she would have gotten better or not, but maybe it's for the best. If it hadn't been a compound fracture and I had noticed it was broken before the skin has...
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    Please help my baby chick

    Okay, so I checked the chick over carefully, and she has a broken bone. It's so bad it's sticking out the very top of her leg. I made sure to clean the area and covered it...I can't set it back because it looks like it's been broken for a while...I'm not sure how that happened unless my mom...
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    Please help my baby chick

    One of my baby Rhode Island Reds has a swollen right leg. It hobbles when it walks, and the other chickens were pecking it. It looks like maybe its out of place (?) I don't know if she was dropped or what happened. Is there any way I can help her?
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    Ideal Hatchery Questions

    I have ordered from Ideal twice. The first time I ordered 15 chicks and the second time I ordered 11. In my first batch I was sent 5 males for warmth and the second time I decided to do insurance only. All of my chickens arrived healthy and thus far none of them have died (the first batch is a...
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    I Have a Bunch of Chickens...and...

    Haha! Yes, we did get a lot, huh? My husband promised lots of people eggs, and thought- well...we might as well get a bunch of chickens!!! We're building the coop now- it'll hold about 30 chickens according to the plans, and should be completed this weekend. It's still pretty cold outside...
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    I Have a Bunch of Chickens...and...

    right now they are in two separate plastic containers with heat lamps. The first container has 20 chickens and the other one has 11 because they are a week apart in age. The older ones are a week and one day old and the others are two days old. I'm quickly running out of space! We have 11 RIR...
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    Hi 'Yall

    I'm glad to be here and know I'm going to learn a lot. I'm from VA. My husband and I have four human babies and have 31 baby chickens: 16 Rhode Island Reds (1 is male), 10 Delawares (1 is male) and 5 other roosters that we have no idea what they are!
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