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    Off grid cabin with chickens and limited access - possible?

    What about wolves, bobcats and hawks. To each their own but I would never leave chicks/ chickens alone.
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    This is a duck/predator question

    I had a 5 ft block fence around my yard. A bear came over the blocks and my Irish terrier went after the bear. She and the the bear were face to face my IT said the duck was hers and the bear said it wasn't. The bear jumped and went over with the duck. From that time on they were shut up at night.
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    To straw, or not to straw?

    Straw is often sprayed. Put on your garden as mulch and you can lose your entire garden. I do not know how it affects chickens as I never used it around my chickens. Definetely! That is one shaving I have not seen not sure it is ever kept. Jugalone is poisonous. I think they ruled out rice...
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    To straw, or not to straw?

    We got our sawdust from the lumber mill. The chickens loved scratching in it and taking dust baths. The chicken house never smelled . Pine shavings are used in commercial poultry houses. Does not cause any harm and breaks down when spread on the fields.
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    To straw, or not to straw?

    Sawdust shaving
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    Folks from Arkansas.....Eclipse Check in

    Don't know what eclipse has to do with chickens but so be it. Yes in Missouri there was one that stopped traffic.
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    Folks from Arkansas.....Eclipse Check in

    Arkansas near Oklahoma border. Looking for bantams grown or chicks
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    All chickens killed but one escaped. Heartbroken.

    Can't totally agree with you. The neighbor's hunting dog which was bad about running away . Also killing chickens. He killed 8 of my laying hens one Sunday while we were at church. He ate the egg sac of two and the rest he just killed. They were the last chickens he killed.
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    All chickens killed but one escaped. Heartbroken.

    If you have a power source at you chicken run.... I suggest an electric wire to keep predators away. I have just bought a new place. The chicken pen is in shambles. I am guessing a bear tore the fence down. What ever it had to be big because the posts are down and broken.
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    How long do fresh eggs stay fresh?

    I always threw an egg away if it was nasty. If the hen has diarrhea, something might be wrong. I had enough hens it did not really matter. But even with two or three hens the same applies.
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    Happy Autumn! Unexpected babies today....

    Had a game hen that started laying when her chicks were 3-4 weeks old. From one hen ...most were pullets the y grew to 125 in about two years.
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    What is this animal?

    I put used cat litter in their holes. Guess they don't like the smell because they leave.
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    I need long time chicken keepers help.. pullet losing feathers, huge scabs, pus filled pores, not being picked on/no bugs?

    Sorry to hear you lost her but thank you so much for sharing your treatments and the pictures
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    Green bills

    Sorry I have no pictures. The ducks are in a raggedy molt. There are not even any curls as there was
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    Green bills

    All but one of my six remaining ducks have green bills. But two accept mating and I get two eggs a day. So what is this about green bills being males?
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