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Health Issues with Chickens

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 How to Treat Chickens for Pasty Butt a Foot Infection and Mites How to treat chickens      As with all animals, chickens can have health problems. Our chickens have had both normal, and bizarre health problems. Our first problem was pasty butt, which I talked about in another blog post, but, why not talk about it again? Our second problem was a weird foot infection. Then our chicken’s latest health issue was feather mites.      Pasty butt is actually dried feces that is blocking the chicken’s vent. This normally happens with chicks, but it can happen to adult chickens, too. This problem has the easiest, most instantaneous cure, the cure is a simple wet rag. Take the wet rag and dab at and gently rub the chick’s vent where the dried feces is, this will soften the dried feces and eventually remove it. When one of our chicks got it, we caught it, either the day after it happened or the same day, because she wasn’t in any sort of discomfort. It ...
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How did the Hatfield McCoy feud start, and what were the results?

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 How did the Hatfield McCoy feud start, and what were the results?                                   In the late 1800s, a massive feud between two families, the Hatfields and the McCoys, made national news as the families literally battled, killed, and kidnapped each other.      The Hatfields were headed by William Anderson (“Devil Anse”) Hatfield, while the McCoys were led by Randolph (“Rand’l”) McCoy, of which, both had 13 children. The families lived on opposite sides of a West Virginia-Kentucky border stream, the Tug Fork—the McCoys in Pike County Kentucky, and the Hatfields in Mingo county, West Virginia. Their differences started during the Civil War, when the McCoys were Unionists and the Hatfields were Confederates, but thats not what started the feud. There is still debate over what exactly started it, but it was either a land dispute, or Rand’l McCoy...
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Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

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                      Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Gunfight Between the Cowboys and Marshals in Tombstone AZ      On October 26, 1881, in Tombstone Arizona, marshals, Virgil, Wyatt, and Morgan Earp, along with Doc Holiday met cowboys Billy Claiborne, Ike and Billy Clanton, and Tom and Frank McLaury in a bloody shoot out at the O.K. Corral. The next day the Tombstone Nugget newspaper said that day was "one of the crimson days in the annals of Tombstone, a day when blood flowed as water, a day always to be remembered as witnessing the bloodiest and deadliest street fight that has ever occurred in this place, or probably in the Territory."      The cowboys were known as trouble makers and thugs. The Earps and the cowboys were in a dispute about who should control the town of Tombstone. They had previously been in court, and in court, B illy C laiborne made threats against the life of Vi...
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