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    lost a brown leghorn hen & 4 chicks to a snake (warning, dead hen pix)

    I had a 5' black rat snake drop from a tree onto my truck yesterday as I drove into my drive. :*( I have week old chicks, 5 wk old chicks. I didn't think about the snake killing the adults. I'm praying for my chickies. UPDATE: I think I may have been driving around with that snake all day long...
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    Should I try and kill this bobcat?

    I got a wildlife nuisance permit and dispatched two of them.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I have two apple trees in my chicken yard from Stark Brothers so the deer can't get them. The chickens love to get up in the trees too but that's okay, they love the apples too.
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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    13 from 20 gals
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    Topic of the Week - What do/can you do with unwanted roosters?

    So silly as dogs can make more annoying noise than roosters
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    Ended 2025 BYC Calendar Photo Contest—We Need Your Pictures!

    When will calendar be available to purchase in the store?
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    Multiple hatches with rye neck

    I brought my gal inside last night and tube fed her every hour. This morning she is eating on her own so she is back w the others. I guess I caught it quick. Gave her liquid vitamins and liquid feed. I am not sure if she hit her head or just had a nutritional deficiency. All the other chicks are...
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    Multiple hatches with rye neck

    One of my 6 wk old chicks I hatched out I think has this. I just went out and found her like this. She seemed fine and now she is having trouble holding her head up. I am feeding Purina Chick Starter.
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    Topic of the Week - What do/can you do with unwanted roosters?

    I try to re-home them and if can't, then they are processed for food either by me or someone I give them away to. Sad part of hatching your own eggs.
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    Eclipse 2moro

    I am south of Murphysboro IL and in the 100% range. The chickens did what they did 7 yrs ago with that eclipse, just stood there. 7 yrs ago it was completely dark and they froze, this yr was not as dark and they just acted as usual but some just stood there wondering if they should go in and...
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    Chickens stopped laying during first winter

    My green egg layers have done a mass strike and aren't laying. Three are 3 yrs old and two are not quite a year old. They all stopped suddenly. None are molting. Odd it is just the green ones no matter their age. They will start a union soon I imagine.
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    Dreaded Bumblefoot

    After nearly 2 months, my rooster's foot is getting better. Such a hard time for him and me. The thing that finally cleared it up was an antibiotic I squirted in the wounds. He is still limping and swollen but haven't gotten any puss/curds out this week. I'm still checking it every 2 or 3 days...
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    Dreaded Bumblefoot

    I put a towel over my chicken's head when I soak or tend to my chickens. It helps calm them. I've been working on a terrible case of bumblefoot on my rooster for a month now. I soaked, vet did debridement, still an issue but getting some better. The infection went up the foot so 2 bad spots I'm...
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    Nov 2023 Organic chicken egg prices How much do you charge and where are you located?

    I know I can't say they're "certified organic" but I will tell them they're fed organic feed and date started that feed. As far as going rates in my area, that's why I posted this question and asking people''s location so I can figure that out.
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    Nov 2023 Organic chicken egg prices How much do you charge and where are you located?

    They are for eating or hatching; whatever the person wants to do with them.
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    Nov 2023 Organic chicken egg prices How much do you charge and where are you located?

    I have been feeding my chickens w Purina Layena, non organic. I thought I'd try organic for a while so I separated some of my chicks and are feeding them organic feed. It is about .75 cents a lb where regular feed is .45 cents a lb. I'm trying to figure out what I should sell them for. $5 sound...
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    Any ways to get a rooster to stop crowing?

    They can crow all day and night but I love the sound. I get used to it. My guys are good roosters so their crowing is part of the experience for me.
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    Review by 'Betsy57' in article 'How To Process A Chicken At Home'

    I have plucked a few by hand and my buddy has a wiz bang plucker he built I've used a few times. When I don't want to bother him, I have just been skinning them lately. Sure a lot cleaner and quicker.
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    large Eggs

    My 8 month old Comet has been laying huge eggs too. I hate it for her but nothing I can do. I know that has to be hard on her system.
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    2 chickens died, emaciated, green poop, help please for cause

    Green poop is mostly bile; multi organ failure. I had a state lab do a necropsy one time. I have had them die with green poop too, real thin. I did my own necropsy and the intestines past the crop was packed with green grass so nothing could get down them, so they starved to death and the organs...
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