Arizona Chickens

Hi, I have a chick that hatched a day early, and it hatched great, but I'm pretty sure that it is still trying to suck the yolk sack in. What do I do?

Leave it alone in the incubator. It needs to absorb the yolk. If you pull on it, you can cause it to bleed out causing its death.
 
Do Prairie Dogs pose any danger to chickens? We have a rather persistent one that decided to make it's home in our backyard where out chickens range free.

Don't know about prairie dogs. My yard is full of round-tailed ground squirrels (look like small prairie dogs) that go into the coops and steal food when the chickens are out free-ranging. They are audacious little buggers. Too many to trap out. I do trap the ones that try burrowing into the coops. Mostly I ignore thee ones that come in through the pop door. Can't really keep them or the wild birds out without seriously confining the chickens. So far the only side effect of the invasion has been the loss in feed. The feed loss slowed down when I switched from dry mash to pellets.

If you've only got a few, trap them now! Once they get a large colony established it is almost impossible to get rid of them. Unless you have a wild ferret population to keep them in check, in which case you will have other problems
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Do Prairie Dogs pose any danger to chickens? We have a rather persistent one that decided to make it's home in our backyard where out chickens range free. 



Don't know about prairie dogs.  My yard is full of round-tailed ground squirrels (look like small prairie dogs) that go into the coops and steal food when the chickens are out free-ranging.  They are audacious little buggers.  Too many to trap out. I do trap the ones that try burrowing into the coops. Mostly I ignore thee ones that come in through the pop door. Can't really keep them or the wild birds out without seriously confining the chickens. So far the only side effect of the invasion has been the loss in feed. The feed loss slowed down when I switched from dry mash to pellets.

If you've only got a few, trap them now!  Once they get a large colony established it is almost impossible to get rid of them.  Unless you have a wild ferret population to keep them in check, in which case you will have other problems :p


Have you tried a treadle feeder. They work great for us. Our Muscovy's would have a banquet on a daily basis if they came into our yard. That's free food..
 
Have you tried a treadle feeder. They work great for us. Our Muscovy's would have a banquet on a daily basis if they came into our yard. That's free food..

I actually don't leave any feed at all out over night, and all the feed in the daytime is either in the cabin pens, or in the fenced runs. I never see the Prairie dogs in the back yard in the daytime when the chickens are out and about...only in the very early morning before I've released the chickens and later in the evening after I've locked everybody in their respective pens for the night.
 
Hello peeps! Haven't been on in awhile, been pretty busy. Got married to my Spanish girlfriend on the 28th, and I've been reintroduced to the "Honey-do" list. Also put new roofs on my chicken palace, and working on shade cloth in selected areas. Growing out a group of Ameraucanas and black copper Marans that I got from @desertmarcy earlier this year. The BCM roosters are gorgeous!
Here is a pic from last weekend of chicken palace progress:

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Hello peeps! Haven't been on in awhile, been pretty busy. Got married to my Spanish girlfriend on the 28th, and I've been reintroduced to the "Honey-do" list. Also put new roofs on my chicken palace, and working on shade cloth in selected areas. Growing out a group of Ameraucanas and black copper Marans that I got from @desertmarcy earlier this year. The BCM roosters are gorgeous!
Here is a pic from last weekend of chicken palace progress:

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Congrats to you!
 
@cyborg Congratulations on your upcoming nuptials
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Your chicken palace looks wonderful! We got one of those giant covers from Harbor Freight this year and it is working wonders for both shade and keeping rain (when we get it!!) off some of the yard. Congrats again!
 
Hello peeps! Haven't been on in awhile, been pretty busy. Got married to my Spanish girlfriend on the 28th, and I've been reintroduced to the "Honey-do" list. Also put new roofs on my chicken palace, and working on shade cloth in selected areas. Growing out a group of Ameraucanas and black copper Marans that I got from @desertmarcy earlier this year. The BCM roosters are gorgeous!
Here is a pic from last weekend of chicken palace progress:

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I see a chair, but no party favors. . Hay, congratulations from us.. let's celebrate. .
 

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