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    Coon Attack...What is the best food to put in a trap...besides chicken

    The raccoons here (just outside Tampa) seem to like cat food. Speaking of predators, I had a very large rooster killed last night (15-20lb). I heard a noise, nothing dramatic, just a fussing kind of sound, but got up to check anyway. The first thing that hit me was a smell, kind of an animal...
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    Pasty butt question

    I noticed one of our chicks seemed lethargic and kept trying to get under his mother. When I picked him up I saw that he had a big ball of rock hard poop hanging from his butt. It looked as if the weight of the ball was pulling him inside out. (His butt was protruding, not like the other...
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    I'm a Mama Hen!

    I take the eggs from the hens when they seem to lose interest in incubating them, so I frequently have a pile of "orphan eggs" in the bathroom sitting in a box on a heating pad. I had two hatch on my desk in the last couple of days. One, she accepted, the other not. That's where this guy came...
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    I'm a Mama Hen!

    WOW!! Thanks everyone. I really appreciate knowing that there is a solution other than me holding them all the time!!
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    I'm a Mama Hen!

    We've had chicks, chicks and more chicks. Everything was going fine, but I think the last hen to have hers hatch got tired of more babies. She rejected one of them, kept pecking at him so I removed him. At the same time I saw an egg with a hole, so I let that one hatch out on my desk. Now, I...
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    sneezing chicken

    Here's our sickie - eating her oatmeal.
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    sneezing chicken

    Thanks everyone for all the great advice. Crop, feathers and eyes look normal. She seems better today, but still a bit of a problem with balance, although it's not as bad as it was. She gobbled down the good food (oatmeal and basmati rice) She just pooped on my desk so I got a good look at...
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    sneezing chicken

    The first thing I did was to isolate her, she's been with 4 other chicks for several months, so hopefully, whatever is wrong with her is something they are immune to. She has had the same friends and neighbors since she hatched, so I kind of wonder if maybe she's more sensitive to the...
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    sneezing chicken

    I have one that is shaking her head too. She's about 5 months old, she started, "looking funny". She stopped getting excited about food, kind of kept to herself and tucks her head under her wing and sleeps a LOT! Now she's started jerking her head. We have had kittens too that have ear mites...
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    Chick with infected eye

    His eye seems better today, there is a slit now like a normal eye. He's still eating and drinking. I used the terramycin ointment, but also put a little sprinkle of it in his water. Thanks everyone.
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    Chick with infected eye

    I'll do that. Do you think he'll live? Thanks very much.
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    Chick with infected eye

    Pretty gruesome pictures, but I'm hoping this is not as bad as it looks. I found this little guy, absolutley filthy outside. I brought him in and gave him a bath so I could see exactly what else might be wrong with him. He's wild, but didn't mind me picking him up and fussing with him. I put...
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    Injured chick

    She's able to grasp my finger. I have separated her, she is in a big plastic box in the bathroom and has food & water within reach without her having to get up. How do I go about setting it? Thanks
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    Injured chick

    I have a chick that is about 6 months old and found her laying on the bottom of the pen. When I approached her, she got up, but had an obvious problem with her left leg. I thought that maybe some of the other chicks (some a little bigger than her) may have stepped on her since it happened...
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    wanted- rooster east Orlando

    I have several just east of Tampa. Do you have a secure place to keep him? We have a bobcat too and we have to lock up all the chickens at night.
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    Where do I put them.....

    I use those plastic tubs too. I have hardware cloth pens outside for the young chicks, especially those that for whatever reason, don't have a mother. I put one of the tubs inside each pen for shelter from a light rain (I turn it on it's side), then at night, I gather up those that need to go...
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    Is anyone worried about bird flu?

    Thanks very much everyone for all your great information. I love my babies and since I was there for almost all the hatchings, I couldn't bear to end their lives. We have some migratory birds that enter our yard and share the water with the chickens, maybe as a precaution I'll move the...
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    Rats Eating Chickens

    I have two small silkies (3 months old) inside a hardware cloth pen which is inside a wood chicken coop. There are 8 roosters in the coop which is why the silkies have their own pen. At 3:30am I heard a lot of peeping and checked them, one of the silkies was very agitated and looking all around...
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    Is anyone worried about bird flu?

    I'm hearing more and more in the news about bird flu. Last I heard, it was coming for sure and almost here. What's going to happen to our chickens. Will we all have to kill all our chickens? We have wild chickens living near us too. Will there be a vaccine for the chickens? Or just for...
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    How long should the chick be breaking out of the shell?

    Sad to say, the little guy didn't make it. I wrapped him up and kept him warm, but he just got weaker and weaker. Even though his little life was very short, I think it was comfortable.
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