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Do you guys want to give me your opinions on my BA chick? Boy or girl? I know BAs have big wattles, but I'm a little concerned about this chick. It's 8 1/2 weeks.
If it's a rooster, that will be 3 of 5!
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Beckyhsinglsc said:
Do you guys want to give me your opinions on my BA chick? Boy or girl? I know BAs have big wattles, but I'm a little concerned about this chick. It's 8 1/2 weeks. If it's a rooster, that will be 3 of 5! :th
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If it's 8 1/2 weeks I would say that's a Roo. Seems too young to be that pronounced. Boo. I picked 4 of 4 from 100 RIR chicks so don't feel too bad.
 
K9Dave said:
I don't know how big that valley is but you have a neighbor that's a member here.
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It's a real big valley, with lots of chicken peeps. The guy that told me to come here is called carnivore (not his real name). We both have the same kind of chickens (Black Jersey Giants). Unfortunately, mine are all starting to get dry pox, so I'm looking for pox vaccine at the local feed stores.
 
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Today has been one of the worse days I have had in a long time. A dog we took in that was abandoned at my kids school last year around Christmas time. she had been shot in her front leg with a pellet gun and had been hit by a car along with being severely emaciated. we have worked on food aggression issues and her fighting with my sons dog. we got her cleaned up, healed and healthy and my oldest son Christian loved this dog. she would even play ball and tackle football with him. A while back we brought home 3 birds from a feed store, stuck them into a crate and we had to go somewhere when we got home the 3 chickens had been killed. we caught her in the area and we worked on rehabilitating her. it seemed it worked, no more issues. Then last night I get some new chickens and put them out in the duck run so that they can all be treated this weekend (a just in case I do with adult birds) and this am 2 of the roosters were fighting. we threw one in a kennel as I had to take my DH and the boys to work and school.

I get home and the neighbor ran over and said we have a serious issue, your dog got into the garden then into the duck run and started killing chickens, she also ran chickens out so you have some dead in your yard too. then she goes on to say she saw the whole thing and tried to throw rocks to stop it.

it was obvious it just happened. I found 2 cuckoo Marans, 1 Delaware, and 1 BCM along with Rufus my Blue wheaten AM rooster dead in the run. well Rufus was not dead yet he died in my arms (he was one of my favorite roosters) then I found the 6 EE and an Ancona and another cuckoo Marans dead in my yard. none were eaten, no blood just killed. The neighbors said even though I had 5 big dogs in my yard only Noel was killing the chickens the others were barking at her.

we took Noel to the pound and thankfully there was a rescue there pulling dogs and they are willing to take her in. My son has been crying since I picked him up and frankly so have I. to lose 13 birds and my dog all in one swoop I just don't even know what to do.
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