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Mink - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Mink
General Information & Description Minks belong to the Mustela family, which also includes stoats and weasels. Minks come in different names like Ermine, Sable, Minque Nordique, and Sable Nordique....
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Mountain Lions - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens
GENERAL INFORMATION Mountain lions (Felis concolor), are the second largest native North American cat (the jaguar is slightly larger). They are known by a number of different names - cougar, panther,...
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Crow - Chicken Pests - How To Protect Your Chickens From Crows
General information and Description Crows are scavenger birds of the genus Corvus in in the Cirvidea family, which also includes magpies, ravens and about 120 other bird species. Crows thrive in......
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Coyote - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Coyotes
COYOTE General Information Coyotes (Canis latrans) are a species of canine found throughout North and Central America, Mexico, Panama and Canada. Coyotes tend to travel in large groups, knows as...
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Bear - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Bears
Bear General Information and description Bears are omnivores in the Ursidae family. They are found mostly in North America, Europe and northern and... Bear - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your...
View ArticleLice Chicken Pests How To Protect Your Chickens From Lice
Lice General Information and Description Common poultry lice are pests or ectoparasites infesting the skins of chickens. Lice are often 1/25 of an inch to ¼ inch long, and are straw-colored or...
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Mouse - Chicken Pests - How To Protect Your Chickens From Mice
General Information Mice are mammals that belong to the order of rodents. They are small animals with pointed snouts, small rounded ears, short legs and a long naked, or almost naked, hairless tail....
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Dog - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Dogs
General Information Ask any farm or poultry breeder and he will tell you, without hesitation, that dogs and chickens don’t naturally mix. Unless trained to recognize the chickens in a barn, dogs are...
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Cat - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Cats
Cats General Information and Description Domestic cats (Felis Catus or Felus Silvestris Catus) are one of the most popular house pets in the world. Cats are... Cat - Chicken Predators - How To...
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Raccoon - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Coons
General Information Raccoons (Procyon Lotor) a.k.a. Coons are one of the best known and easily recognized non-domesticated chicken predators. Due to their adaptability raccoons are able to use urban...
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Rat - Chicken Pests - How To Protect Your Chickens From Rats
General Information and Description Widely considered a pest in homes and farms, rats are long-tailed rodents in the biological superfamily Muroidea. Their large size distinguishes them from mice....
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Bobcat - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Bobcats
General Information & Description The bobcat (Lynx Rufus) is a member of the Felidae cat family. The most common wild cat in the US, the bobcat is named for it's short, bobbed tail. Bobcats are...
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Mites - Chicken Pests - How To Protect Your Chickens From Mites
Mites One of the most common problems encountered when raising and keeping poultry is mites. They can be introduced by wild birds or visiting rodents, or get picked up when your birds get into...
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Fisher Cat - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Fisher Cats
GENERAL INFORMATION The fisher cat (Martes pennanti), also known as the "pekan cat", or "black cat", is a large, dark coloured, furry member of the weasel family. These forest dwelling mammals are...
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Red Fox - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Foxes
General Information The red fox is a quick, skillful hunter, feeding on a wide variety of foods. Mice are often eaten, especially during the winter months and cottontail rabbits are also an important...
View ArticleSnake - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Snakes
General Information & Description Snakes are long, legless carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes. Fifteen families of snakes are currently recognized, comprising of more than 2,900...
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Squirrel - Chicken Pests - How To Protect Your Chickens From Squirrels
Squirrel General Information & Description Squirrels belong to the large rodent order called Sciuridae. They are generally small furry mammals that are smaller than... Squirrel - Chicken Pests -...
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Weasel - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Weasels
Weasel General Information and Description Three species of weasels can be found in North America and Canada. The long tailed weasel, which is sometimes measure as long as 24 inches (61cm), the...
View ArticlePoultry Ticks
Welcome to the wonderful world of Poultry Ticks (Argas persicus and A. sanchezi) (under construction--let the itching commence) In the first year of raising chickens here in Arizona, I discovered that...
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A Cure for Stick Tight Fleas
Poultry fleas, also known as stick tight fleas due to their ability to attach themselves to a host and not let go, can be a danger to your flock as well as your domestic pets. These nasty little...
View ArticleMites & Lice Treatment And Prevention
Mites & Lice! Treatment and Prevention A parasite is any living thing that lives off another living thing. External parasites can either suck blood or eat feathers. Chickens with bad infestations...
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Eagle - Chicken Predators - How To Protect Your Chickens From Eagles
General Information and Description Eagles are the un-proclaimed kings and queens of the bird kingdom. These impressive birds of prey are members of the Accipitridae family. Only a few types of...
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Internal Parasites - Parasitic Worms in Chickens
Internal Parasites - Worms Worms, what are they, where do they come from and what to do about them. Worms are everywhere... they are in the soil, insects can carry their eggs and they can sometimes...
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Introducing Your Dog To Chickens- Tips & Tricks
I was so excited to be bringing home my first chicks. I had everything prepared a week in advance, spent countless hours reading articles and blogs online, and even rented books from the local...
View ArticleDealing With Dogs Who Kill Chickens
With all the predators that chicken's could be threatened by, dogs seem to be the number one issue among my friends that raise chickens. Neighbor dogs and random at large or stray dogs, as well as...
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How to Build Solar Fence to Protect Free-Range Chickens.
My Solar fencing for my free-range chicken area is about 6 weeks old now and I am extremely happy with how it turned out. I could have paid several thousand dollars to have a fencing contractor come...
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How to stop hawks for 30 cents
I have been using this method for quite a few years now and it has worked perfectly for me. This setup is a deterrent rather than something that completely closes off the top, but it's a lot easier to...
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Worming Chickens—Medicines and Dosing Information
NEW PHOTOS: Photo credit: @casportpony Cecal worms Photo... Worming Chickens—Medicines and Dosing Information
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Weasel
General Information and Description Three species of weasels can be found in North America and Canada. The long tailed weasel (Mustela frenata), which measures up to 24 inches (61 cm) in length; the...
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Dealing with Mites
Mites are evil little creatures that can drain your poor flock of the will to even be active. Mites can drink chicken blood, eat feathers, and sap energy from your birds, which is why they are so...
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Starlings - How to Keep Them from Becoming Pests
Photo by Tim Felce (Airwolfhound) - Starling, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27814540 Starlings are a very common bird, especially in the american northeast. Although...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Guide to Animal Attacks
Disclaimer: this is just what I do. If you disagree, feel free to tell what you do So, your chicken has been attacked by a dog/coyote/wolf/rooster/etc. First of all, get the animal away from your...
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Keeping your Coop Mite and Rodents Free
Winter is coming around the corner, and the field mice and other rodents are looking for a nice, warm home with food to live in. Boom! They spot a chicken coop, stocked with food and warm straw for...
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Living With Predators
I'm fortunate to live on an island without a lot of predators: big (bear, fox, coyote, bobcat) or small (skunk, opossum, snakes). We do have transient cougars, but the deer population is quite healthy...
View ArticleHow to get rid of rats from chicken coop?
Chicken keeping does not have to be difficult or stressful, and you shouldn’t have to spend your time worrying about the pending threat that rats can be to your backyard flock, it’s a part of life and...
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Buffalo Gnats and what You NEED to Know!
They are deadly. "Buffalo gnat" is the name the LA AG center uses but they are also called black flies, bull head gnats, biting flies, turkey gnats and likely many other names based on your region....
View ArticleA Checklist to Avoiding Casualties in the Flock
Now there are many different things that happen from the most obvious to the least. No matter what it seems like they're always getting into trouble. But we can limit those different happenings with a...
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How to Treat Stick Tight Fleas in Poultry with Permethrin
Photo by Erik Streb Echidnophaga gallinacea, commonly known as the hen flea, stickfast flea and sticktight flea, occurs on a wide range of bird and mammal hosts. If uncontrolled it causes anaemia,...
View ArticleHow to protect you chickens all year round.
It was about 6:00 pm. I went outside to close up my chickens, and geese. I counted all the birds on the perches only to find 9 out of my ten hens. Panicked, I checked all the nesting boxes, and looked...
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Top 10 Chicken Predators
From aerial to ground predators, chickens often fall prey to many of these. There are many different things that happen from the most obvious to the least. No matter what, it seems like they're always...
View ArticleWill it harm my birds? (Identification of diurnal raptors for birdkeepers)
image subtitle: is this bird hazardous to your flock? Perhaps, on a crisp autumn day, you have found yourself sitting outside with your flock. Everything is peaceful until a dark shadow crosses the...
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Raccoons - My Experience With This Predator & Additional Information
Raccoons - My Experience With This Predator & Additional Information (Sneaky raccoon hiding in the bushes. Picture by @LateBirdFarms) Basic information: A raccoon is a mammal with dextrous,...
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Red mites : can transmit diseases & tips for prevention and monitoring.
Red mites are small parasites of about one millimeter. They cause a lot of nuisance in the hen house, and can also transmit diseases and weaken a chicken severely. Sometimes if the owner doesn’t see...
View ArticleTop 10 Ways to Protect Your Chickens from Predators
Predators are one of the greatest fears a chicken farmer has. They can be cunning, fast, and very sneaky. Your chickens will be drawing in predators from the next county over! Well, maybe not that far,...
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Doodle and Smudge: My adventure with Cornish X as pets
Doodle and Smudge. Smudge is the first photo, Doodle the next. Doodle was just dust bathing explaining the Purple face. Introduction Doodle and Smudge today are 2, 3 month old Cornish X. It was only...
View ArticleMites on Chickens: Prevention & Treatment
One of the most common problems chicken keepers encounter is mites on chickens. They can be introduced by wild birds or visiting rodents, or get picked up when your birds get into contact with other,...
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Flock Dogs how to pick and train.
If you have ever wanted chickens and a large property one of the first things you have probably been advised on is a dog to chase off predators and protect your birds, but then the day rolls around...
View ArticleWinter Chicken Predators To Look Out For
Wild animals, especially, can have a hard time in the winter. Due to a shortage of food and bitterly cold temperatures, finding food is difficult & dangerous. Bears are the only predators that...
View ArticleHow To Teach Your Puppy To Be Trustworthy Around Your Poultry
Many people who have poultry will eventually bring home an adorable new puppy. Puppies entertain us with their cute and playful antics, steal our hearts and become treasured members of our families....
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Mountain Lion as a Chicken Predator
Mountain Lions ( cougars ) can be a problem as a predator for chicken keepers. Even though they are shy and primarily nocturnal cats they are still a problem. They can live in just about any habitat,...
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