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    Switching their feed

    Yes, have separate dishes, one oyster shell, one grit. They both come in big bags that will last forever if dry. Mary
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    Horses!

    I saw Teddy compete at the Kentucky Rolex 3 day, he was absolutely spectacular!!! Mary
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    My 5 month old rooster keeps attacking my dog

    In hindsight, having them as house birds wasn't best, out there with other chickens, learning to be chickens, will be better. Poor guy, he's not sure how to get along, but as he matures things should be better. Later. Mary
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    Horses!

    I still have horses, but don't ride any more, so they have pasture and no actual work, and these are all older pictures, nothing really new. Three year old Trakehner filly Spirit, at her inspection. Magic and Spirit playing in the field. Mary
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    My 5 month old rooster keeps attacking my dog

    Progress! Given plenty of space, your chicks can be out with the hens, as long as there are safe spaces for them, and extra feeders and waterers. This year our ten TSC chicks were immediately out at the coop in a fenced off area, in view of the adults. When they no longer needed their brooder...
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    I forgot about those gallery photos! The horse is a Trakehner colt, born here, and lives in...

    I forgot about those gallery photos! The horse is a Trakehner colt, born here, and lives in Canada. Here's a full sister, born 2009, at her inspection as a three year old. She's really nice! Mary . I have two pasture pets, an Oldenburg mare and a Trakehner mare, and two sisters, Trakehners...
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    My 5 month old rooster keeps attacking my dog

    Welcome! You can try to reform him, and it often fails. That's why @nuthatched gave you that message. Cockerels can mature into polite individuals, or not and their brains are smaller than their testicles!!! He does think that you can be pushed around, he's not a puppy or kitten (and some of...
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    Help me understand this pullet's behavior

    My SS hens have been very interactive and interested in everything I do, and talk at me all the time. Love them! Do they want to be held, no, but that's fine with me, they just want to know what I'm doing. I'l always have some in my flock! She should be next to your other SS now, and could...
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    Is dirt and sand mixed good for coop run?

    Welcome! Good drainage is most important, and then dirt is fine, and especially if it's clay, some sand would be good too. Adding shavings or wood chips, dried leaves, whatever (not mostly black walnut!) will make a very good run substrate, and you can throw the coop cleanout shavings there...
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    Not sure whats going on with my hen

    How much space do they have, both in their coop and outside run? Multiple feeders and waterers, out of sight of each other, and places for birds to also be unseen by others? Any injuries? Your pullet and cockerel might just not be getting along, at least right now. Do you have adult birds...
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    White Mite Infestation - Please Help 😭

    Make sure you know what your pest control guy will be using, I'd bet it's not a good/ safe/ approved product for chickens or their environment! Permethrin and spinosad work fine and can be used on and around your birds safely, with no egg withdrawal, and most other products aren't fine at all...
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    7 week old Easter egger

    Agree, red comb already, it's a boy. Mary
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    Rare bantam breeds that are decent layers?

    Our EE bantams from Cackle hatchery are cute, friendly, hardy, and pretty good layers of aqua eggs. Love them! Old photo, don't have good new pictures, sorry. Mary
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    He came from Cackle hatchery, the only hatchery I could find them in the USA. There is a breed...

    He came from Cackle hatchery, the only hatchery I could find them in the USA. There is a breed club and some breeders who have stock available. This breed was developed in Canada as an all purpose large breed with tiny combs and wattles, very cold hardy. Definitely a 'heritage type' bird, also...
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    They chew through hardware cloth?!?

    Here's our covered run wall: It's on a concrete foundation, with 1/2" hardware cloth stapled to the framing with fence staples, and the lower 4' of walls covered in 2"x4" woven wire fencing stapled, and then further attached to the building framing with 1'x4' boards screwed in. Solid! When...
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    Favorite All Flock feed?

    We use the Purina Flock Raiser for our mixed aged flock, which is fresh where we shop almost always, used up within two months of the mill date on each bag. There's no one 'best choice', it depends on what's fresh where you shop, and preferably a 20% protein all flock type diet, or a similar...
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    There's got to be some balance in pesticide/ herbicide uses, and it's hard to get there. I remember DDT sprayed everywhere in cities to try to save the American Elms, mostly a failure. Probably none of use can remember DDT (the only choice then) used to kill malaria carrying mosquitoes, a...
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    Roost

    Yes, the highest roost is the best, every time. You should at least double the length of the highest roost, nobody will use the lowest one anyway. And they might be too close together, some poo will land on birds under the birds on top. Rearrange your roost set-up so everyone has more space up...
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    Yet another reason to live in the 'boonies'!!! We do have neighbors who seem to want that golf course look, but not us, and they just have to look our way and be sad, or whatever. And we installed a mile of woven wire fencing after moving here, and there's no way it gets weed wacked! Mary If...
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    new research debunks trad views on nutrition

    Totally agree! If it's coming up in our yard and not horrible toxic, I'm good with it, and the lawn gets mowed very occasionally. Mary
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