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The best way to get rid of mice is a cat unless you can find a king snake to call the place home. King snakes also get rid of poisonous snakes.

Excellent advice, but the most effective way to stop an egg eater is to have her for dinner.

I use the deep litter method with additional litter and diatomaceous earth as needed and a total replacement every 6 months. It is a small flock of 8 Cochins that are about a year old. I’m getting an average of about two dozen eggs a week.

I ordered Partridge Cochins from a local place in Georgia. The chicks came from somewhere out west and they look more like buzzards than what I ordered. They are 21 weeks old and still no eggs. I’m beginning to think these slackers would be more useful in a frying pan.

I ordered Partridge Cochins from a highly recommended supplier, but at 15 weeks they still don’t even look like chickens. They look more like turkey vultures. They are almost completely black and there are no combs even beginning to show ar their beaks. Can you tell from the picture if they are...

Is it possible that they were annoying a neighbor? I know that sounds terrible, but every time we read the news the unimaginable seems to happen.

My grandmother told us about a rooster they had like that. She said it suddenly attacked her while she was getting the eggs one day. She came down to the house and told my grandfather. He didn’t believe her and said that rooster never hurt anyone. Then he went up to get the eggs himself. He...