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Last year I lost roughly half my flock to what I'm sure was a coon. We set traps and caught a she coon but that was it. The killing stopped and then a couple days later started again. We lost 2-3 chickens a night. We put up an electric fence and for a few months nothing happened. All our...

Hey all. I finally caved and bought a couple ducks for my yard and one of them has an injured leg and am looking for some advice. The poor thing appears to have at some point broken it's leg and it didn't set right. The duck looks fine when it's standing but it has problems walking and can't...

Hey all. I am thinking about raising some turkeys for thanksgiving this year and wanted to ask a few questions about raising them. First off what breed would you recommend? I don't want something that's going to be vicious and try to tear my throat out every time I go into the pen. Second...

I've got a bantam cochin hen that is just over a year old and is extremely pale in the face. She just kind of stands in one place looking around. She looked fine yesterday when I saw her but to day she is keeping head down eyes closed alot and appears to have lost a considerable amount of...

I believe my chickens have gone on strike. I have 3 separate pens for my different breeds of chickens and all of them have all but given up on laying. I have about 20 hens spread out between them and I used to get 9 to 11 eggs a day, but now I'm doing good to get 1 or 2 eggs a day. It...

Hey all. I've got a sick cochin roo on my hands and am looking for some advice. We had a strong storm come through last night and he got wet from all the wind and rain plus we had a sudden drop in temperature as well. When I went to check on them this morning his face was really pale and he...

SO MAD right now. Last year my entire flock was attacked and wiped out by a stray dog and some of the neighbors dog. We took care of the stray and talked to the neighbors. We thought it was taken care of but when I got home from work yesterday I was on my way out to where I had two new birds...

Hey all I recently noticed a coon close to my house and I'm worried about my birds. What I want to know is do those anti predator things with the light in them work?

I'm in need of a LF Buff Laced Polish Rooster and some Silver Laced Bantam Cochin pullets if anyone has any available. I lost my rooster to a dog attack. PM me or reply to thread price. Thanks

Hey all I'm going to ask an incredibly stupid question so please don't beat me up to bad. I've got two standard sized polish hens and I'm wondering if I can breed a bantam sized polish rooster to them. I've been searching everywhere for a standard sized BL polish rooster and can't find one so...

I've got 2 Bantam Cochin hens that about a year and a half old and they constantly setting. I'm beginning to think they are setting for the fun of it because they aren't setting any eggs. I go out there and they are both sitting on top of one another in the top of they're feeder. I tried the...

Hey all. I Recently loaned my incubator to my sisters school and gave them some eggs to hatch out. Well today was hatch day and out of 11 eggs five had hatched and another 1 was working on it. That was about 8:00 A.M. About 10:30 A.M. all the chicks were dead. Found out that before my...

Hey all. My Brahma and Polish hens have started eating the eggs they lay and I need to know how to stop it. Any ideas?

Hey all I just got a new bantam rooster that I'm trying to introduce into an existing flock and looking for advice on how to him from fighting with the roosters I have now. He will be the 4th rooster and 2 of them are fine with him but my frizzle roo and him fighting. I've got the new boy in a...

Hey all I find my self in need a buff laced polish rooster and would like to know if there are any breeders out there that have some started birds. Would prefer bearded but would take a non bearded. Also may want an extra hen or 2. Thanks

Hey all I am in need of a hygrometer and I need to know what kind and where to get one. I have a Little Giant still air incubator if that makes a difference. Thank you for your time

My name is Freckles. I am a 5 month old bantam hen from Ideal poultry and I don't know what breed I am. If anyone know please let me know because I am confused being surrounded by all these Cochins.

It's been a while since I've posted updated pics of my birds so here they are. Here is one of my Buff Laced Polish hens. Her name is Cackle. Also she is looking for a good rooster if anyone has one available. This is my Buff Brahma rooster. We call him Rooster Crowburn he weighs...

Hey all. Today was supposed to be day 17 for my eggs, so I went to candle them and none of the 2 dozen eggs had developed. I candled them at day 10 and they looked to be developing but after I found out today that none went beyond that I went and broke them all open just to see and only 3 out...

I got 9 Welsummer chicks from Ideal poultry last month and all had been doing fine till Saturday when one died for no apparent reason. Yesterday morning as I was changing they're feed and water all the rest were fine but by last night one of them looked like it had literally pooped it's guts...