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Hagar3 said:
I am not doing anything other than feeding and watering daily. I have a feeder for layer pellets and I let them free range usually 2 or 3 days a week. I feed them scraps like turnip green cabbage and cole slaw. We have had alot of that lately since our Lions Club had a barbeque a week ago and we fed the senior citizens yesterday and served cole slaw both times. The chickens love it. We fed them pumpkins when we cut the halloween pumpkins. Th grand kids got the seed. I have 3 White Leghorns, 3 Red Sex links and 1 Australorp. The Red Sex Links are my favorite. They are all consistent layers but the Red Sex Links lay the largest eggs and they are the friendliest. When we are sitting out and feeding them the Red Stars come up the closest. One of the jumped up in my lap for the fiirst time yesterday. I love the colored eggs. We have 3 Mallards that lay beautiful sage green eggs. They are medium and large in size. So they look just like hen eggs andtaste like hen eggs. They think the Banty rooster is their mama or something.
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Aww, now I know why you are still getting eggs! You have all those wonder chickens! Leghorns, Sex Links and Australorp! My brown leghorn is molting and my Australorp is only 8 weeks old! I have some runner ducks that should give me green eggs, but none yet. One female is 26 weeks old and no eggs yet. The others are only 8 weeks old! And guess what, I use to be in the Lions club. Things got hectic here so we stopped going. Great organization! About the leftovers, we have a lot of appreciation days gatherings at our home for the Sheriff's department and we get lots of slaw too! Yep, the chickens love it!
 
ohju1ia said:
I've shot the **** thing with my BB gun several times! It keeps coming back. I really like my neighbor. He's a sweetheart. I don't want to drag his dog off to the pound. Fortunately I am out of 9mm ammo, or else I probably would have killed it last night.
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Yikes! Have you tried pellets instead of BB's? I had 2 problematic Pit Bulls belonging to my next door neighbor. Friendly, but they wouldn't stay out of the yard. A pellet rifle corrected this issue pretty quickly.

So sorry about your chickens!
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Flowerbh said:
I am sorry about your chickens. I lost a bunch of chickens to a bear a few months ago. We have now added an electric wire that goes around the whole coop. We already had hard tack that is even buried 12 " deep. The bear tore off the door! Anyway, you may want to add an electric fence. A few zaps and that dog may not want to come back! We have actually heard several yelps at night since we added the fence!

Speaking of that, we were lucky last night. We went to a friends for dinner before the chickens were locked up for the night. Our coop door is only 14" X 12". Right after we ate, I asked my husband and our friend to go close the coop up and turn the fence on because it was getting dark. They arrived to find a bear and her cub in the coop with all the chickens! The runner ducks were no where in sight. The bears were eating from the feeders while the chickens sat on the 6' high roosts! My husband saw the bears squeeze thru the tiny door! The mom ran up the hill, the baby ran up the nearest tree 3 feet from the coop! Ugh. So while that baby was up the tree, I went to the coop, counted the chickens and closed the door and set the electric fence. Then we hid behind a car and watched the baby slowly climb down the tree and run off to find it's mom! Then we went looking for the ducks. Finally found them down by the lake. They wouldn't come so we had to leave them there all night. They are all ok. (Runner ducks are more like chickens and go inside to sleep so this was unusual) Anyway, we are so glad that we must have gotten there right after they got inside the coop. All is ok.
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Gracious!! Thank goodness there are no bears in my neck of the woods. We just have coyotes & foxes.
 
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I have 3 Mallard hens and I get one or 2 green eggs from them every day. If everybody did something there would be a lot of needs met. Thanks for taking of the sheriffs dept. I lived in Woodstock for 5 years and I really hated to leave those beautiful North Georgia mountains when I moved back down here. I really like the area around Dawsonville. I have a Grandson in Woodstock and a brother in Holly Springs just south of Canton. All of my chickens were hatched around the first of April. My youngest granddaughter wanted some chickens and I wasn't hard to convince. I was temporarily retired so we went to Tractor Supply and she had to have some of every thing. The chicken math is working though. She and I have been raising butterflies the last 2 summers and she is so amazed to see the process. So, next summer I would like to hatch some some chicks with a broody (settin') hen. She would really like to see that process. She does think that the rooster is picking on the hen when he is on top of her. I am not ready to explain that to her yet.
 
I found a great deal on some hens to replace my poor pullets that died from the dog attack. Now I'm trying to figure out how I should keep them separated for the suggested period. I'm picking up 4 BR hens and 1 RIR rooster to add to my 2 white rocks, EE and WL.
 
ohju1ia said:
I found a great deal on some hens to replace my poor pullets that died from the dog attack. Now I'm trying to figure out how I should keep them separated for the suggested period. I'm picking up 4 BR hens and 1 RIR rooster to add to my 2 white rocks, EE and WL.
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I will be hatching some barnyard mixed eggs soon if you are interested. They should include Naked Necks, EE Frizzles and others. Most will lay colored eggs....blue/green/olive!
 
Kyochan said:
Ohh I didn't see your post before. Some Black stars would be very nice to start up our laying flock with. Not sure about the cross breeds. I know RIR lay very well but what about the white rocks? 
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I picked up some BR hens and a RIR rooster, so in a month or so I will be able to start hatching black stars and red stars! Woohoo!
 

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