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    Looking for Australorp chicks.

    Thanks! I think I'll try Mt. Healthy this year. Little more expensive than a few others but read nothing but positive results.
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    Looking for Australorp chicks.

    Hi all! Not sure where to ask on this so used the general one. I had 12 beautiful Australorps that have now dwindled to 3 who are now old maids and are longer laying... (9 died by: one dropped as a chick by grandchild :(, neighbors dog got 4, dog "disappeared";). Other 3 by potential hawks...
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    Comment by 'Toons' in article 'Using Sand In Your Chicken Coop'

    Interesting. I don't if using a pooper scooper and 5 minutes seems realistic but that's my speed. I use straw so I can till it into the garden in the fall and spring. But anyway, I have a question: How does it fare during the winter (< 0°F )?
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    This method for FRESHLY LAID hard boiled eggs works.

    Neat! Sadly I would have to buy three of them or use it three times for my salads. Also, the plastic melting issue they have is concerning. Thanks for sharing!
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    This method for FRESHLY LAID hard boiled eggs works.

    Wanted to add a variation and the results: They were done with about 1-3 day old eggs. Placed eggs in room temperature water and brought to a boil and let sit for 15 minutes, covered. Then ran under cold water until the water temp was about in the 40s and then added ice. Waited for 5 minutes...
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    This method for FRESHLY LAID hard boiled eggs works.

    I must have re-edited this about 10 times... Should have proof read it first. I think its comprehensive and legible now... LOL
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    This method for FRESHLY LAID hard boiled eggs works.

    I just want to say that I did not come up with this on my own. Most steps has to be given credit to someone on Backyard Chickens forum. HOWEVER. Only one step was taken from each suggestion and then combined. That and I did a step or two of my own. I post this because I have read so many people...
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    6 years on here! Wait 8 years???? Woot!

    Tootin' my own horn! Out of 13 chickens, I have 8 left. 2 vanishes, 2 found in coup, latest one, throat... assuming rat the other I think tried to eat the rats that I poisoned... (ugh, felt so bad). The last one was the last of my old New Hampshire Reds that I adopted from a flock where the...
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    Comment by 'Toons' in article 'How To Prevent Dirty Eggs in the Chicken Coop'

    Year late but any who... I always use straw and during the winter, I just pile one bale worth on top of the other. One year I thought of thicker the better and so instead of starting with one bale, I used two. Instead of what I expected, it was basically the results the same as if it was done...
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    Rant: Cat killed my free-range chickens

    Check your laws but in my state you are allowed to protect your agricultural livestock and that includes killing dogs and cats if necessary.
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    Official BYC Poll: The Worst Predator

    Foxes and Dogs. Yotes are around but nothing yet from them and caught an opossum.
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    Heat lamps

    The first time I raised chicks in the house, I used shavings, after... 10 years, I ran out of chickens minus one (never had a rooster). They first time chicks with shavings were fine No complications and other than the smell when they got older, it was no big deal. This year, I was told that you...
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    5 chickens slaughtered in pen in one night. Any idea what can get through a 3 inch fence and eat heads and necks of chickens only? Bodies are intact

    My first guess by the description is weasel... What state? (Alabama.. sorry) Just wonder what type of predators you may have. An Opossum will do that too. https://poultry.extension.org/articles/poultry-management/predator-management-for-small-and-backyard-poultry-flocks/ IDENTIFICATION OF THE...
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    Why do my almost 5 week old chicks go berserk every time I reach into the brooder?

    Mine are 9 weeks tomorrow and they all run to the corner and pigpile and burrow under the huddle one after the other. I let them out of the coop and a truck with a loud trailer bouncing and crashing around make s them bee line it for the corner. Unless they are hungry and thirsty then I'm the...
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    What would you ask/pay for these pullets?

    Sell them cheap and you can start a business. Sell them at $10 a pop plus the value of feed and extras (electrolytes, antibiotics, whatever is used) and charge shipping and handling (Packaging, etc.). I recommend a contract agreement stating if they die during shipping, its not your fault...
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