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Quote: You're probably wasting your time growing grass in a chicken run anyway. They'll have it back down to bare earth in days.

Dachshunds were bred to go down into dark holes in the ground and confront badgers face to face. A lot of people get bitten on the face by getting "face to face" with a dachshund and setting off the dog's fight drive. Trying to "kiss" a dachshund you don't know, or retieve one from under...

Quote: If there's a Black Friday line at the Feed Mill, you is wayyyyyy out in the country, bro! It's a line if Bubba, Bubba, and Scooter git thar ahead of ya.

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Cut back on the feeding levels and protein for a few weeks, and reduce the amount of daylight. Here's an explanation of commercial forced molt: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/poulsci/tech_manuals/induced_molting_commercial.html I couldn't see reducing feed for my hens to get them to lose 30% of...

Quote: Deer, goats, cattle, etc. have been known to die from acorn poisoning. Usually this comes from severe early season snow storms making all other food scarce. It's more a problem in the Rockies than elsewhere, as there are types of oaks high in tannins there, and blizzards can make other...

I have golden comets, not really a breed, since they are hybrids. They're kid-friendly lap chickens and they lay every day. I also have RIRs, and they're friendly and good layers as well. Ours are not noisy at all, though I think if you crowd your birds they are more likely to make noise. I've...

Mine are so used to people giving them peanuts that they will sneak up behind people who are sitting in lawn chairs, and stick their heads right in people's pockets to see if they can find any.

It looked about the size of a chicken, too.

And...just for what it's worth...some of you hard-liners might consider taking a business writing class down at your local community college. It's basically a BS class, where you learn to turn negatives into positives and make people feel good about getting shafted. I know a lot of people in...

Deer, and to a lesser extent, goats and sheep have proteins in their saliva that break down the tanins in acorns. This allows some comsumption of acorns, but acorns in quantity are still toxic even to these animals ... even deer can be poisoned by acorns if it makes up too much of their diet...

One of the issues you might be running into is that Wisconsin is very much an agricultural state, and many people there are only a generation removed from farming. They may have very set ideas about what chicken keeping consists of. My mother grew up on a farm, and when I mentioned that I was...

I like naked necks, they're definately odd, and they are good layers. I like naked neck RIR- crosses even better. This is Fugly, a RIR-Naked Neck cross roo that we handed over to a friend for breeding.

Quote: I remember when Guess jeans made comfortable jeans for guys. They had two styles at the mall by us, loose and boot cut. I hated doling out the 60 or 70 bucks they cost all those years ago but I was just putting up laundry and came across them. I doubt I'll fit into them, but this...

Home baked cookies, an assortment of crackers, some of that really tasty Italian hard salami rolled in black pepper, a small round of Camembert cheese.