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    Comment by 'ThreesACharm' in article 'Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard Chickens'

    kellya126 -- moist & mushy grains are fine for chickens -- I feed it to our babies once they're a few weeks old, and to any chick who's having issues with eating :) even brewer's yeast is okay to feed to chickens. You just have to make sure that the grains aren't moldy, so feed it to them right...
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    "What People Think I Do" Meme Contest! ***WINNERS ANNOUNCED***

    Quote: Awww, that's cute :) Some of the chickens from our first flock are Strawberry, Sandwich, Steak, Banana Head and Blueberry Ice Cream (that's what I get for letting my 4-year-old name them, LOL) -- although my husband calls them and refers to them all as his "future chicken wings"...
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    Mercy Killing Assistance

    Ooh, I'd say if you're not good with an axe, avoid using it at all costs! My husband used to do this the same way yours does, but somehow didn't get the axe all the way through and the poor rooster ran around "like a chicken with no head" for about 3 minutes before finally passing. It was...
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    I want this thread locked!

    Listen, it's NOT your fault -- **** happens, and it's a learning experience. In my house, our cats are completely disinterested in the chicks, so we don't think to take any extra precautions with them. If something did happen, I wouldn't blame myself; sometimes, an animal's most ancient insticts...
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    The Pickers and the Pecked

    I don't have any suggestions other than what you've said (getting them outside for more space), but I went through a similar experience with our red sex-links and with our bobwhite quail chicks. Both times, we isolated the "victim" to stop the pecking; with the chickens, they simply turned on...
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    1-Week-Old RIR/JG Cross-Breed Has No Balance & Can't Walk

    We hatched 6 cross-breed (Rhode Island Red to Jersey Giant) chicks that we hatched in an incubator. One, "Cruz," was born with what seemed like a displaced hip -- we had a Wyandotte chick in a previous hatch with the same problem, and in the end, she didn't make it, so I was very concerned and...
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    "What People Think I Do" Meme Contest! ***WINNERS ANNOUNCED***

    Awww, thank you to everyone for the nice comments! :) I'd laugh a little more if my neighbors hadn't actually called our local police on us multiple times for "suspicion of cock fighting/raising roosters [...] intended for cock fighting," because we don't cull our cockerels and they think we...
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    "What People Think I Do" Meme Contest! ***WINNERS ANNOUNCED***

    This would have been a lot more fun (and a lot less sloppy) if the chicks would HUSH UP AND GO TO SLEEP ALREADY:
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    Comment by 'ThreesACharm' in article 'Chicken Treat Chart: The Best Treats for Backyard Chickens'

    Our Jersey Giants are particularly fond of cat litter, especially right from the litterbox. Not sure how nutritious it is, though! Leftover corn-on-the-cob, bananas, stale bread and strawberries are HUGE hits with all of our birds (except the wyendottes, who are the pickiest birds I've ever met)...
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    Need advice please! Chicken's leg is hurt

    We had a hen with a sprained leg from falling off a perch, and we only had three others -- 1 rooster, 2 hens -- at the time, and I still isolated her at night. During the day, I would allow the injured chicken to join the rest for an hour twice a day, while I supervised, to make sure they didn't...
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