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    Common External Parasites in Poultry Fact Sheet

    http://ohioline.osu.edu/vme-fact/pdf/0018.pdf there seems to be a TON of this coming onto the BYCF lately....Check out the link above, Great info with pics. Heavy D Another great link with treatment info: http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-0483/
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    Happy Easter !!!

    http://terrisfp1.com/holidays/chick.swf
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    Like a light switch turned on ! Eggs !

    Pretty much gave up on my girls as they have not produced even one egg since the days started getting shorter, I kept looking in the nest box and nothing.....sigh.....until yesterday, three hens three eggs, today, three eggs.... I have no clue what switch turned on but I'm glad and not...
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    egg laying after stress

    How long does it usually take a hen to get back in her groove to lay after being stressed? I brought home a new Araucana (13 months old) and have had her three weeks in isolation. She was laying previously, but not since I've brought her home. In another few weeks I will introduce her (run to...
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    adding new hen & egg production

    does the stress of re-establishing the pecking order affect egg laying production/quality from either the new hen or existing hens?
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    PVC feeder that the feed goes into a "Y" ??????

    I think I remember seeing a PVC feeder the has a "Y" at the feed point. Thus making two access points for the chickens to feed from. Has anybody made one or has seen this thread ??? I have searched "PVC feeder" and went through the three pages of posts and can not find it. I remember it having...
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    She's a He...now what???

    As I posted in the Breed/Gender section, I let my Aracauna out in the Am and she/he started crowing!! The guy my wife purchased the hens from said he would gladly take him back but all he had to exchange him for will be a RIR at 12 weeks of age. My girls (RIR,Barred Rock) are now 27 weeks old...
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    I'm betting She's a He !!!

    My DW bought me three hens back in Jan. An Aracauna, RIR and a Barred Rock. We have been patiently awaiting eggs that came in early July. Which put my girls about 26weeks. We have only been blessed with brown eggs to this point..Hmmmmmm Well yesterday at 6am, I let out the girls, and low and...
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    Dog house tractor coop

    Well my first shot a building a coop is done.....a dog house tractor coop. My wife bought me the chicken hutch to start with and it lasted a whole 3 months before it fell apart.....so necessity is the mother of invention! I have three hens that now have a new home.... I can take pics of the...
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